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Uruguay's health authorities confirmed on Thursday that two more people have died of the A/H1N1 flu, as the death toll reaching three in the country. A woman of 54 died in a hospital in Maldonado, 140 km to east of the capital Montevideo, and a man...
Tags: h1n1 flu, Montevideo, deaths toll, Uruguay
Swine flu is running wild in the Southern Hemisphere and is spreading rapidly through Europe, with Britain projected to reach 100,000 daily cases by the end of August...World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan and health ministers...
Tags: h1n1 flu, swine flu, World Health Organization, Keiji Fukuda, Cancun, Mexico, deaths toll, Mexican Health, flu drugs, resort town
Two freight train cars carrying gas tanks exploded in northern Italy early Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring dozens more, authorities said. Sky News reported more than 40 people were hurt and the death toll was feared to be higher.
Tags: Viareggio, Italy, seaside town, deaths toll, tuscan seaside
The latest victim was a boy from the Mbizana area who died on the way to hospital on Wednesday morning, spokesman Sizwe Kupelo said. All 11 would-be initiates had been attending illegal circumcision schools, he said. All the deaths, bar one at Bhisho,...
Tags: Sizwe Kupelo, deaths toll, South Africa, provincial health, spokesperson sizwe, Transkei, illegal circumcised, circumcised deaths, Eastern Cape health department, rotting penis
A seventy-year-old woman from New York has died of the A/H1N1 flu virus in Las Vegas area, local health officials said on Friday. The woman was in Clark County, Nevada to visit family, according to the officials, who believe she had underlying medical...
Tags: h1n1 flu, deaths toll, U.S, Southern Nevada Health District, CDC
Abel Murrieta, prosecutor of the northern state of Sonora, raised the death toll from Friday's fire to 44 after another death in hospital, without specifying if the latest fatality was a child or a care worker. Most of the victims of the blaze in the...
Tags: Mexico, care centers, deaths toll, Sonora state health department, centers fire, Hermosillo
At least 42 children have been killed in a fierce fire that raced through a daycare centre in the northeastern Mexican state of Sonora, a government official has said. "The latest report we have puts the number of deceased at 42, with 33 people remaining...
Tags: Mexico, deaths toll, Hermosillo, Sacramento, Northern California Shriners Hospital, care fire, fire occurred, Sonora, old boy, shriners hospitals
The northern Mexican city of Hermosillo was plunged into grief and shock Saturday as investigators sought to pinpoint what sparked a swiftly moving fire at a crowded day-care center a day earlier...The youngsters ranged in age from 3 months to 4 years,...
Tags: Mexico City, Hermosillo, care center, Sonora, deaths toll, care fire, AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini, Ukraine, daycare center
Guatemalan health authorities said on Thursday that the confirmed cases of A/H1N1 flu in the country rose to 23, after confirming seven new patients. According to information reaching here from Guatemala City, six patients are from Guatemala City...
Tags: Guatemalan Health, Mexico City, Guatemala City, swine flu, h1n1 flu, toll rises, flu deaths, deaths toll
Iraqi casualties in May fell by more than half compared with the previous month and were at a record low for the years for which statistics are available, according to figures released Sunday. The statistics suggested that insurgents have not been able...
Tags: Iraqi, recorded low, deaths toll, U.S