HANOI, June 14 (Xinhua) — The hand-foot-mouth disease (HFM) and dengue fever have developed quickly and unexpectedly across Vietnam’s southern Dong Nai province, warned the provincial preventive medicine center in its report released on Thursday. According to the report, the HFM disease spread to 169 out of 171 communes in Dong Nai province, about 1,120 km south of capital Hanoi, killing two and affecting 2,000 local people since the beginning of this year, while nearly 1,800 people from 154 communes were contracted with dengue fever that killed one patient. Read article
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An unusual spike in influenza, including cases that required hospital care, is being monitored closely by the Health Department. Eight people have been admitted to with flu-like symptoms since May 21 — seven of them children. Read article
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Johannesburg – The outbreak of rabies in Gauteng is fully under control despite an incident where three people were bitten by a puppy with suspicious behavioural symptoms of the disease. Agriculture, Rural and Social Development, chief director veterinary services, Dr Malcom de Bude said they had experienced an imported case of rabies into Gauteng from […]
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A MAN hospitalised in critical condition in the US, is likely to be suffering from the plague, health officials said yesterday. The man, aged in his 50s, became ill several days after he was bitten on the hand while trying to separate a cat and a mouse, The Oregonian reported. Read article
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The Atatürk Airport SecurityCommission and the Istanbul deputy governor have banned all labor protests on airport property, Doğan news agency reported today. The commission, which made the decision in a monthly meeting, announced that authorities would put an to end to all ongoing protests at Atatürk Airport that are being conducted in response to Turkish […]
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The London-based Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an ad by a United Kingdom-based window film company questioning the possibility of flying glass and glass breakage in light of the upcoming Olympic Games in London. The text of the ad, published by United Kingdom-based Northgate Solar Controls (NSC), read as follows: “How safe are you […]
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A record 97 people have contracted a potentially fatal bacterial disease in the Northern Territory this wet season, health authorities say. Acting director of the Centre for Disease Control in the Territory, Steven Skov said there had been 97 cases of melioidosis locally this wet season, resulting in nine deaths. Read article
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The Mehr News Agency reports on Sunday that the head of the Pasteur Institute labs in Tehran announced that since the beginning of the Iranian year in March, 29 people have contracted the Crimean Congo fever and seven of them have died from it. He confirmed that the virus has been identified in 27 provinces.The […]
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The timing of the new strike has yet to be finalised but union officials dismissed as “pure speculation” suggestions it could be timed to coincide with the forthcoming Olympics. The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union said almost 100 of its members based at a control centre had overwhelmingly backed a campaign of industrial action. […]
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Roads in the capital could become congested within three weeks as 1,300 sets of traffic lights are adjusted to ensure a quick traffic flow along Games lanes. A week later the Kingsway Tunnel at Aldwych will be reversed so the traffic flows southbound to ensure the world’s media can have a quicker journey to the […]
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