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Fears swine flu is masking meningitis
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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The swine flu pandemic is in danger of masking other serious illnesses such as meningitis which may be misdiagnosed as a result, health experts warned yesterday. Around 3,500 patients are hospitalised each year with meningitis, 50-60 per cent of whom...
Tags: swine flu, Gordon Brown, flu pandemic, prime minister, enormous effort, deaths toll
Swine flu vaccine trials start
Sydney :: Australia | 4 months ago
Credibility Vaxine has started the world's first human trial of swine flu vaccine. Vaxine , a small company operated from Flinders Medical Centre , pipped giant biotechnology company CSL to the post by a matter of days. CSL will begin trials on adults and children...
Tags: swine flu, flu vaccine, CSL Ltd., Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia, deaths toll, vaccine trial, company csl, flu deaths, human trial
Minister shocked by deaths at Rustenburg mine
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 4 months ago
Credibility The Minister of Mineral Resources Susan Shabangu expressed shock and deep regret at the loss of nine lives at Impala Platinum's Rustenburg operations. In a statement on Tuesday, Shabangu conveyed condolences to the families of the dead miners. The statement...
Tags: Impala Platinum, Shaft Rustenburg, rock fall, deaths toll, south african, South Africa, Implats, african mining
Swine flu school closures urged
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
Credibility Shut schools to limit number of swine flu deaths, ministers told Slowing spread of virus would give more time to develop vaccine Ministers were urged tonight to rethink their policy of keeping schools open through the swine flu pandemic after research...
Tags: swine flu, close schools, schools closures, deaths toll, Britain, Lancet Infectious Diseases
Chinese warned of Al Qaeda threat
Urumqi :: China | 4 months ago
Credibility China's Embassy in Algeria has issued a warning on its website for its citizens to take care and China's diplomatic missions in the Philippines have increased security. Groups linked to Al Qaeda have threatened to attack Chinese people in retribution...
Tags: China, Algeria of Al Qaeda, Turkic-Muslim Uighurs, Urumqi, deaths toll, Beijing, muslims uighur, Xinjiang Province, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Han Chinese
Bangkok Post, Thailand: 18th flu death reported
Bangkok :: Thailand | 5 months ago
Credibility The Public Health Ministry has reported the 18th swine flu related-death on Sunday. Dr Nopporn Chuenklin, who heads the public health office in Nakhon Si Thammarat, said the patient was a 19-year-old rubber farmer from Thung Yai district in Nakhon Si...
Tags: Thailand, Nakhon Si Thammarat, deaths toll, h1n1 flu, deaths related, pacific region, Bangkok Post, Dr Nopporn Chuenklin, health office, swine flu
China raises Xinjiang death toll, adds ethnic detail
Urumqi :: China | 5 months ago
Credibility URUMQI: China raised the death toll from ethnic rioting in Xinjiang, giving for the first time the ethnicity of the dead, and a big security presence in the city at the centre of the strife prevented protests on Saturday. The official Xinhua news agency...
Tags: China, deaths toll, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, xinjiang region
Brown says Afghanistan strategy is succeeding
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 months ago
Credibility But he said that it was essential that the international coalition saw through its commitment if it was to deny al Qaida a fresh foothold in the country from which they could mount terrorist attacks on the West. "While I know there are some who have questioned...
Tags: Afghanistan British, Helmand, Britain, Logar, logar province, Gordon Brown, deaths toll
Death toll rises in China ethnic unrest
Urumqi :: China | 5 months ago
Credibility At least 184 people died in last weekend's violent protests in China's far-west Xinjiang region, state-run media reported. That number raises the death toll from a previously reported 156. On Friday, about 3,000 Muslims attended a weekly prayer themed...
Tags: China Increases Police Presence, Urumqi, deaths toll, Muslim Uighurs, Xinjiang, Turkic Uighurs, xinjiang region, Han Chinese, ethnic unrest, Uighur Muslim
Federal money to help swine flu preparations
Wellington :: New Zealand | 5 months ago
Credibility Delaware will receive almost $1 million from the federal government so that public health workers and hospitals can fight swine flu in the fall. That's when swine flu, also known as H1N1 flu, is expected to re-emerge -- at the same time that the regular...
Tags: swine flu, h1n1 flu, flu deaths, Florida health department, deaths toll, New Zealand
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