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Disease spreads in quake-hit HaitiPort-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 29, 2010 Haiti's desperate earthquake survivors faced a new threat Friday as the United Nations reported a rise in cases of diarrhea, measles and tetanus in squalid tent camps for victims. A vast foreign aid effort is struggling to meet survivors' needs 17 days after the disaster, which killed around 170,000 people and left one million homeless and short of medicine, food and water. "Several medical teams report a growing caseload of diarrhea in the last two to three days," World Health Organization spok ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2010At 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 ... more  
Lagos, Nigeria (UPI) Jan 22, 2009 The power vacuum in Nigeria, one of Africa's leading oil producers, caused by the two-month absence of ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua is putting the all-important oil industry in jeopardy by delaying reforms and threatening to re-ignite an insurgency in the oil-rich south. Yar'Adua, who has a history of poor health, was flown to Saudi Arabia for hospitalization with a heart condition o ... more  
Berlin (AFP) Jan 22, 2010A leak in a uranium enrichment plant in Germany exposed an employee to a high level of radiation but posed no danger to people outside the facility, the firm operating the plant said on Friday. The employee was taken to hospital as a precaution, a spokeswoman for the German subsidiary of British nuclear firm Urenco said. None of the radiation escaped, the company added. "There is no ... more |
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Haitians pray in ruins as quake toll soarsPort-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 17, 2010 Despairing 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. Officials fear the eventual death toll could top 200,000. Survivors were besieging hospi ... read more |
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