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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 Wuhan Morning Post said on Wednesday. It said the blood-sellers were believed to have been infecte ... read more |
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Haiti quake relief gains pace: aid agenciesGeneva (AFP) Jan 18, 2010 Aid agencies said a huge international relief operation nearly a week after Haiti's devastating earthquake was gaining pace on Monday, but one warned that survivors were growing increasingly desperate. UN agencies and the Red Cross said field hospitals and food distribution had multiplied in and around the capital Port-au-Prince, where the magnitude 7.0 quake wrought huge destruction, leaving tens of thousands dead, hundreds of thousands homeless and countless injured. But the Inter ... read more |
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Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 17, 2010Despairing Haitians prayed in church ruins Sunday as rescuers raced against time to unearth quake survivors and the UN vowed to speed up desperately needed supplies of food, water and medicine. The government said 70,000 bodies had been buried in mass graves since the 7.0 earthquake flattened much of the impoverished Caribbean nation on January 12, triggering a massive humanitarian crisis. ... more  
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 |
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Anger at Austrian avalanche experiment with pigsVienna (AFP) Jan 14, 2010 Animal rights groups on Thursday condemned as "bizarre" and "macabre" an experiment in Austria in which 29 live pigs were to be buried under masses of snow to study human survival chances in avalanches. Several organisations threatened legal action against the Innsbruck Medical University, western Austria, and the emergency medicine centre in Bolzano, northern Italy, which organised the experiment. Hermann Brugger, who is leading the study, said the pigs were sedated and the authori ... read more |
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