Laboratory results have confirmed that a two-year-old boy from Guangzhou does have H5N1 Influenza A, the Centre for Health Protection said today, adding his condition has changed from stable to serious. He is in intensive care at Princess Margaret Hospital and has developed obstructive hydrocephalus. Read article
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While health authorities have yet to identify the cause of the mysterious skin disease in central Quang Ngai Province, two more people died in Ba To District in the past 3 days, taking the death toll to 23 so far. 34-year-old woman, Pham Thi Trieu, in Reu Hamlet, Ba Dien Commune, died at 10 am […]
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Health officials in Orange County are working hard to stop a single incident of typhus from becoming an outbreak. But what is typhus and how do you spot it? A child in Santa Ana was hospitalized with the condition last month, and although the child has since recovered, the county’s animal control specialists are trying […]
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An airport worker crashed a set of steps into a plane at Stansted Airport, leading to a flight being delayed by 90 minutes for inspection. The Ryanair service to Ibiza was taken out of service as a precaution after a wing was examined, a spokesman said. Read article
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Three Norwegian airports were closed Monday as security personnel stepped up strike action over pay, while nine others airports had limited checkpoint capacity. Alta and Sandnessjoen airports in northern Norway and Kristiansund on the west coast canceled all flights, while Haugesund and Aalesund in the west and Bodoe and Tromsoe in the north were operating […]
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Patna: Suspected encephalitis has killed 15 children in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur and Gaya districts in the last week, officials said Saturday. The mosquito-borne disease, which claimed nearly 150 lives last year, has returned with a vengeance. Eleven children have died in Muzaffarpur and four in Gaya. Over two dozen children have been admitted to hospitals in […]
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Goa remained completely shut except for few buses of state-owned Kadamba Transport Corporation plying on roads along with emergency services, in response to NDA’s bandh call against the petrol price hike, sources said. Several tourists were seen stranded in the coastal belt as tourist taxis, private buses and even autorickshaws were off roads fearing attack […]
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The second day of a cleaners strike has brought chaos to Terminal One of EL Prat Airport in Barcelona. The floors are now covered in litter and only one toilet blocks in arrivals is open. 240 workers from the Ingesam Mantres, company have stopped cleaning Terminal One. Travellers are more and more indignant, with insults […]
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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s parliament has passed legislation that would ban strikes and lockouts in the country’s aviation sector after a protest by workers at Turkish Airlines this week forced the national carrier to cancel many flights. If Turkey’s president approves the legislation, it will become law. Read article
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Baggage handlers and other ground staff at Stansted Airport are to go ahead with a four-day strike over the Jubilee weekend after talks failed to resolve a row over new rosters. Read article
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