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©Reuters/Jason Reed Vials of smallpox discovered in US govt storage room Federal investigators are probing how vials of smallpox made their way into a storage room at a Food and Drug Administration lab near the US capital, health authorities said.
09 июля 2014
Chikungunya virus spreads from Caribbean to C. America The mosquito-born chikungunya virus is spreading into Central America, health authorities there say, after outbreaks in several Caribbean nations.
21 июня 2014
Infected food blamed for British baby's hospital death A likely contamination of liquid food was on Wednesday blamed for the death in Britain of one baby and the poisoning of 14 more, regulators said.
05 июня 2014
Immunotherapy is new revolution in cancer fight Immunotherapy has made great strides against cancers like melanoma that were once believed incurable, though scientists still do not understand why it works well in some cases but not others.
04 июня 2014
The mosquitoes that carry the Chikungunya virus. ©Reuters/Ricardo Rojas After 8,000 cholera deaths, Haiti faces new epidemic Hard-hit by a cholera epidemic that started in 2010, Haiti now faces a new threat in the expanding chikungunya virus, authorities said
29 мая 2014
McCartney to make full recovery from virus in Tokyo Music legend Paul McCartney has been treated in a Tokyo hospital for an illness that forced him to cancel a tour of Japan but is expected to make a full recovery, his representatives said.
24 мая 2014
Khmer Rouge 'First Lady' hospitalised in Thailand: son The former "First Lady" of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime has been hospitalised in neighbouring Thailand and is relying on a feeding tube and oxygen to survive, her son said.
23 мая 2014
Ex-Beatle McCartney cancels Japan tour over illness Former Beatle Paul McCartney has cancelled his Japan tour due to illness, organisers said Tuesday, days after apologising to fans for missing a pair of weekend concerts.
20 мая 2014
©Reuters/Jim Young 13 new MERS deaths in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia has announced 13 more deaths from the MERS coronavirus, as the World Health Organisation prepared for an emergency meeting over worries about the spread of the disease.
11 мая 2014
Unusual new penguin flu found in Antarctica A new kind of bird flu has been detected for the first time in Adelie penguins in Antarctica, though the virus does not seem to make them sick, researchers said.
07 мая 2014
The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). ©Reuters/National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases Deadly Middle East respiratory virus strikes in US The first case of MERS, a dangerous respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East and has a high death rate, has been confirmed in the United States, officials said.
03 мая 2014
©Reuters/Olivier Anrigo US orange production hit by disease, juice prices soar A citrus disease spread by a tiny insect has devastated Florida's orange crop, which is expected to be the worst in nearly 30 years, and sent juice prices soaring on New York markets.
18 апреля 2014
Garcia Marquez, godfather of magic realism, dies at 87 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel-winning Colombian author who used magical realism to tell epic stories of love, family and dictatorship in Latin America, died Thursday at the age of 87.
18 апреля 2014
©Reuters/Ahmad Masood Goat to be cloned to treat rare genetic disorder Scientists in Brazil have genetically modified a goat to produce milk with an enzyme to treat a rare genetic disorder, O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper reported.
17 апреля 2014
Gambia bans flights from Ebola-hit nations The Gambia has banned flights from Ebola-hit west African countries from landing in its territory, airport officials told AFP.
16 апреля 2014
Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez . ©Reuters/Edgard Garrido Garcia Marquez in 'very fragile' condition: family Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez is in "very fragile" condition and at risk of complications while recovering at his Mexico City home from a recent hospitalization, his family said.
16 апреля 2014
Japan culls 112,000 chickens after bird flu outbreak Japan has finished slaughtering 112,000 chickens after confirming its first bird flu infections for three years, with authorities stepping up efforts to swiftly contain the latest outbreak, officials said Tuesday.
15 апреля 2014
Sharon Stone. ©Reuters/Jason Redmond Sharon Stone kept overnight in Brazil hospital: media Hollywood actress and producer Sharon Stone spent a night in a Sao Paulo hospital for treatment by an infectious diseases specialist, Brazilian media said Tuesday.
09 апреля 2014
Disease threatens flood-hit Solomons The flood-ravaged Solomon Islands was facing a new threat Monday as the first signs of disease emerged in camps sheltering thousands of displaced residents in the capital Honiara, aid workers said.
08 апреля 2014
©Reuters/Tomas Bravo Saudi MERS death toll rises to 66 Saudi health authorities have reported the deaths of another two men from the MERS coronavirus, bringing the death toll from the respiratory disease in the worst hit country to 66.
07 апреля 2014

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