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Haiti: A year after the quake, waiting to rebuild
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The man’s body lay face down, his white dress shirt shining like wax in the sun, as he was unearthed in the ruins of a Port-au-Prince restaurant a year after the earthquake. The...
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Three Cases of Cholera Confirmed by New York City Officials
By AL BAKER The first known cases of cholera in New York since the outbreak of the disease in Haiti last year were confirmed on Saturday by city officials. A commercial laboratory notified health...
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Global warming could increase diseases originating from water sources
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Climate change could increase exposure to water-borne diseases originating in oceans, lakes and coastal ecosystems, and the impact could be felt within 10 years, US scientists told...
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Haiti’s cholera epidemic twice as bad as predicted, say researchers
globalpost.com A woman sits with her sick child at an International Red Cross field hospital for the treatment of cholera in Carrefour, Haiti, on Dec. 14, 2010. (Thony Belizaire/AFP/Getty Images)...
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Researchers find superbug gene in New Delhi water
cosmostv By MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON – A gene that can turn many types of bacteria into deadly superbugs was found in about a quarter of water samples taken from drinking supplies and...
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India objects to ‘smuggling’ superbug samples out to UK
timesofindia NEW DELHI: India on Thursday seriously objected to biological samples in the form of “swabs of seepage water and tap water” being carried out of the country “on the sly” by British...
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Disease outbreaks, looting hampering relief efforts in Somalia famine
news-medical “Outbreaks of measles and cholera are striking down Somali children already weakened by hunger, resulting in dozens of new fatalities,” the Guardian reports (Rice, 8/13). According to the...
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World-wide cholera pandemic traced to Bangladesh
rawstory A cholera pandemic that has swept poor countries in three waves over nearly four decades has been traced to a bacterial strain that first emerged in Bangladesh, scientists reported on...
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