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Amazon tribe in Peru warns it's close to extinctionLima (AFP) Dec 1, 2009 The Candoshi people in Peru's northern Amazon jungle are close to extinction from a hepatitis B infection that has gone unchecked since 2000, tribal leaders and health officials said Tuesday. "My people are suffering, we're in real danger of extinction," said Candoshi chief Venancio Ucama Simon. Standing next to a Candoshi woman suffering from hepatitis-induced cirrhosis who doctors said ... read more |
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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 24, 2009The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and the German Aerospace Center intend to carry out health research together. On 23 November 2009, both partners signed a cooperation agreement to conduct bio-medical studies at Neumayer-Station III in Antarctica. In two projects, scientists will monitor the health of the station crew and study the physical and psychological effect ... more  
Hegang, China (AFP) Nov 23, 2009Gao Shujun is one of the seven million Chinese coal miners who every day brave long hours in dangerous working conditions, but it is the price he must pay for economic survival. Lying in a hospital bed Monday, Gao reflected on the deadly nature of his job after surviving a weekend mine blast that killed at least 104 fellow miners in the city of Hegang in northeastern Heilongjiang province. ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Nov 20, 2009China has ordered more accurate reporting of swine flu fatalities after a doctor renowned for helping expose the scale of the 2003 SARS outbreak said deaths were being deliberately underplayed. The order issued late Thursday on the health ministry website appeared to acknowledge suspicions of under-reporting in the nationwide tally, which the government has put at 53 deaths out of nearly 70 ... more |
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Fort Hood, Texas (AFP) Nov 7, 2009US President Barack Obama will attend a memorial service here this week to honor victims of the shooting rampage on the military base in which 13 people died, the White House said Saturday. Investigators were meanwhile working around the clock to uncover the motives of the Muslim US army doctor suspected in the killings that also wounded 30 people. Criminal investigators were poring over ... more 
Kiev (AFP) Nov 7, 2009An epidemic of flu and respiratory infections has now taken 135 lives in Ukraine, the health ministry said, as the country Saturday received a new portion of medical aid from Europe. A total of 871,037 people have been recorded ill with flu and acute respiratory infections since late October, with 39,603 of them hospitalized, including 317 people in a grave condition, the ministry said. ... more 
Belgrade (AFP) Nov 5, 2009Serbia on Thursday reported its third death from swine flu, a 58-year old woman with a heart condition, B92 radio said. The woman showed first symptoms on October 29 and died in a hospital of the central town of Cuprija. The second swine flu patient had died on her way to a hospital on Tuesday while the first death was reported on October 21. Serbian authorities have registered nearl ... more |
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