Category: Health
China reports 25th death from H7N9 bird flu
The death toll from the H7N9 bird flu virus has risen to 25, state media said Thursday after a man died in central China’s Hunan Province. The 55-year-old surnamed Jiao [...]
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HK prescribes new dose of old Chinese medicine
Despite the age of its recipes, Chinese medicine – which continues to thrive among Hong Kong’s seven million residents – is not standing still. A growing [...]
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China dissident’s brother says home attacked nightly with dead poultry, …
Security personnel in eastern China are carrying out a nightly harassment campaign against the brother of blind rights activist Chen Guangcheng, the two said on Tuesday, [...]
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Taiwan on H7N9 alert amid China holiday influx
Taiwan is tightening up disease- control measures against the H7N9 bird flu virus in anticipation of a April 29-May 1 national holiday in China, when over 15,000 Chinese [...]
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China reports 24th death from new bird flu
The deadly H7N9 bird flu strain claimed a new victim on Monday when a hospital patient died in China, state media reported, bringing the death toll from the recently [...]
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Health fears raised for Chinese activist’s nephew
A lawyer for the jailed nephew of Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng appealed for help from the United Nations on Monday, saying that without medical attention the [...]
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US health leader warns of human-to-human H7N9 bird flu
There is no evidence that the deadly H7N9 bird flu has yet spread between humans in China but health authorities must be ready for the virus to mutate at any time, a top US [...]
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Chinese premier urges vigilance against bird flu
China’s premier on Sunday urged authorities to be vigilant against a new strain of bird flu that has killed 23 people, while saying that efforts to tackle the virus [...]
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H7N9 bird flu spreads to central China’s Hunan
China’s deadly outbreak of H7N9 bird flu has spread to the central province of Hunan, local health authorities said Saturday, the third announcement in three days of a [...]
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HK Steps Up Bird-Flu Measures
Hong Kong immigration and hospital officials are stepping up efforts to fend off the spread of H7N9 bird flu, which surfaced outside China for the first time last week, as [...]
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Taiwan Expands China Travel Advisory To 10th City And Province…
With H7N9 bird flu spreading into a growing number of provinces in China, Taiwan has expanded a warning to would-be travellers to the mainland, the Central News Agency [...]
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China finds new bird flu case in eastern Fujian province – Xinhua
Chinese authorities discovered on Friday the first case of a new strain of bird flu in the eastern province of Fujian, signalling the spread of the virus which has killed 23 [...]
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Malaysia Bans Chicken Imports From China
Malaysia has banned all imported chicken from China and is urging its own poultry farmers to beware of bird flu after Taiwan reported a case of the deadly strain, the first [...]
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Dengue Fever on the Rise in Singapore
A diminutive pest is threatening Singapore with an outsized bite, bringing this city-state to the cusp of its worst-ever tropical disease outbreak. The aedes mosquito, the [...]
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H7N9 bird flu spreads to southern China
China’s deadly outbreak of H7N9 bird flu has spread to a province in the country’s south, the government said on Friday, marking the second announcement in two [...]
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