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HIV infections emerge long after China blood scandal: reportBeijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2010 At least 80 hospital patients in central China were infected with HIV through contaminated blood, according to a state media report that highlighted the continuing impact of a 1990s blood-selling scandal. The patients at the No. 2 Hospital in Hubei province's Daye city were infected after receiving transfusions of blood sold by several local residents who were later found to have HIV, the Wu ... read more |
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Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 17, 2010Rescuers pulled three survivors from the rubble Sunday five days after the Haiti earthquake, but tensions were growing among a desperate population as police opened fire on looters, killing one man. After hours of painstaking digging through the ruins, a team from Florida unearthed a seven-year-old girl, a man aged 34 and a 50-year-old woman in the ruins of a store as dawn broke in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Later hundreds of rioters ransacked Hyppolite market in the heart of the devastated city as survivors besieged hospitals and make-shift field clinics, some carrying the injured on their backs or on carts. ... more 
United Nations (AFP) Jan 15, 2010Donors ranging from the world's richest countries to individuals sending text messages have contributed massive aid for quake-stricken Haiti, but officials said Friday much more was needed. The UN said it planned an appeal for hundreds of millions of dollars, with the deeply poor country desperate for food and medical supplies and its shattered infrastructure making distribution of assistanc ... more 
Washington (AFP) Jan 15, 2010A nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier arrived in Haiti Friday, poised to deploy an arsenal of resources to aid the Haiti relief effort, amid rising anger that international help has been slow to arrive. The chief of US naval operations, Admiral Gary Roughead, said the massive USS Carl Vinson, equipped with 19 helicopters, a water-purification plant and carrying tons of medicines, was "in the ... more |
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Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 13, 2010More than 100,000 people were feared dead in Haiti Wednesday after a calamitous earthquake razed homes, hotels, and hospitals, leaving the capital in ruins and bodies strewn in the streets. Schools collapsed, trapping the dead inside, and the cries of desperate victims escaped from flattened buildings in the center of the capital Port-au-Prince, which an AFP correspondent said was "mostly ." A massive aid operation swung into action, with rescue teams set to fly in from across the globe to try to pull victims from the debris, bringing desperately-needed medicines and food, as a humanitarian crisis unfolded. ... more 
Washington (AFP) Jan 13, 2010International medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) struggled Wednesday to cope with a "massive influx" of survivors of the powerful earthquake in Haiti, many with severe injuries, a spokesman said. Patients with "severe traumas, head wounds, crushed limbs" have been streaming into temporary structures set up by MSF in and around Port-au-Prince, but the medical charity is only able ... more  
Paris (AFP) Jan 13, 2010The swine flu epidemic in mainland France that has killed hundreds has ended, a monitoring group of doctors said on Wednesday. "It's the end of the epidemic," Thierry Blanchon, one of the doctors of the Sentinelles flu monitoring network, told AFP. The number of cases of the fever reported to doctors has "fallen below the epidemic level for the past two weeks," he said. "The virus is cer ... more |
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