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The World Health Organisation on Tuesday said there was no need for travel restrictions in Saudi Arabia as the death toll from a SARS-like virus there rose to 11, but urged international vigilance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-saudi-sars-like-virus-toll.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 07 May 2013 07:09:54 EST news287129384 The death toll from the H7N9 bird flu outbreak in China has risen to 31, according to official figures, with four more people dying of the virus in China's eastern provinces. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-china-deaths-bird-flu-cases.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 07 May 2013 04:56:08 EST news287121363 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 identified virus to 24. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-china-24th-death-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:45:22 EST news286447515 The death toll from a new strain of bird flu in China has reached 20, with dozens infected, state media reported Sunday, as experts said there was no evidence so far of human-to-human transmission. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-dead-china-bird-flu-state.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:00:02 EST news285745598 A seven-year-old girl who contracted the deadly H7N9 strain of bird flu was to leave a Beijing hospital on Wednesday, staff said, as the death toll from the virus in China remained at 16. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-beijing-h7n9-flu-victim-home.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:35:53 EST news285392145 H7N9 bird flu has claimed two more lives in Shanghai, Chinese state media said on Tuesday, bringing the death toll from the disease to 16. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-death-toll-china-bird-flu_1.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:07:48 EST news285350857 Japan's government on Friday gave itself new powers aimed at curbing the outbreak of infectious diseases, as the country nervously watches the spread of deadly H7N9 bird flu in China. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-japan-anti-flu-powers.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:10:01 EST news284960636 With its bustling streets, shops and busy restaurants, little suggests that ten years ago Amoy Gardens was on the front line of Hong Kong's battle with a virus that caused a global health crisis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-ten-years-sars-outbreak-hong.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:16:26 EST news282539778 The head of the World Health Organization's polio drive said Friday it was crucial to push on with the fight to eradicate the disease despite a rising death toll among vaccination workers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-polio-critical.html Health Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:21:51 EST news281337703 Nigeria has provided nearly $3 million in long-delayed financing to clean up part of an area where lead poisoning has killed hundreds of children, Doctors Without Borders said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-nigeria-frees-long-delayed-funds-poison.html Health Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:13:11 EST news278860383 The death toll from a flu outbreak gripping the United States has reached epidemic levels and it will be at least several weeks before the outbreak abates, health officials said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-death-toll-flu-epidemic.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:54:06 EST news277188840 An outbreak of mosquito-borne yellow fever which has killed at least 165 people in Sudan's Darfur region is Africa's worst in decades, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-darfur-yellow-fever-outbreak-worst.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:06:26 EST news274021577 Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Thursday urged Nigeria to release funds promised to clean up an area where lead poison killed hundreds of children, warning that further delays could be "disastrous." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-nigeria-poison-soil-disaster-msf.html Health Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:54:37 EST news272213669 The number of people believed to have died from mosquito-borne yellow fever in Sudan's conflict-plagued Darfur region has doubled to 67, health officials said on Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-darfur-yellow-fever-deaths-agency.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:58:02 EST news271436266 An outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has stabilised, with no new deaths or cases in more than a week, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-ebola-outbreak-dr-congo-stabilises.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:10:10 EST news270204757 Thousands of Americans who may have been injected with a tainted steroid will have to wait weeks to see if they have been infected with meningitis as investigators seek answers to a widening outbreak. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-tainted-drug-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 13 Oct 2012 05:30:02 EST news269323703 The number of people believed to have been sickened by a contaminated drug rose to 185 Friday, but US health officials said the death toll from the rare meningitis outbreak held steady at 14. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-tainted-drug-outbreak-cases.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:15:03 EST news269280898 The death toll from a deadly meningitis outbreak in the United States blamed on a tainted drug rose to 14 Thursday as the number of cases jumped to 172 in 11 states, health officials said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-tainted-drug-death-toll.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:43:26 EST news269192596 (AP)—Health officials say they have now confirmed more than 90 cases of a rare fungal meningitis that has been linked to a steroid commonly used to ease back pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-cdc-people-ill-meningitis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:11:29 EST news268848684 (AP)—Health officials say the death toll in a rare fungal meningitis outbreak across several states has risen to seven. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-cdc-meningitis-outbreak-death-toll.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:41:53 EST news268760507 An outbreak of Ebola fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo may have killed up to 36 people, out of 81 suspected cases, according to a new death toll released by the health ministry on Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-dr-congo-ebola-toll.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 01 Oct 2012 07:50:01 EST news268295525 (HealthDay)—The number of new West Nile virus cases jumped by more than 400 since last week, and the death toll now stands at 147, up from 134, U.S. health officials reported Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-west-nile-cases-week-cdc.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:10:03 EST news267900791 An outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever has claimed possibly as many as 31 lives in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo since May, Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi said Thurday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-ebola-deaths-dr-congo-minister.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:08:40 EST news266760509 The death toll from an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in Quebec City has risen to 12 since late July, health authorities in the Canadian city said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-toll-dead-canada-legionnaire-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:16:40 EST news266602568 The death toll of the 2009 influenza pandemic in equatorial climates may have been much lower than originally thought, according to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center. The paper, published in PLoS ONE, challenges the idea that the pandemic was deadlier in the tropics, which harbor nearly half of the world's population and which have the highest burden of infectious disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-equatorial-regions-brazil-affected-influenza.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:00:05 EST news263056623 The fact that the global death toll from malaria has dropped by 25 percent over the last ten years would suggest that efforts to control the malaria mosquito are succeeding. But control methods are still largely based on chemical insecticides. A risky business, according to entomologists and experts in biological pesticides from America and Wageningen. There are already indications that the malaria mosquito is becoming resistant to these insecticides. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-plague-methods-agriculture-malaria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:46:39 EST news262518385 The global prevalence of cigarette smoking among adults is set to fall by just 1.7 percentage points by 2030 if governments do not do more to intervene, finds research published online in Tobacco Control. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-global-prevalence-fall-marginally-concerted.html Health Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:30:01 EST news254592780 A lead poisoning epidemic in Nigeria's north that has killed 400 children and affected thousands is the worst in modern history, but cleanup has not even begun in many areas, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-nigeria-poisoning-worst-modern-history.html Health Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:57:50 EST news247820239 The death toll in Mexico from an outbreak of A(H1N1) swine flu has hit nine, with 573 cases detected, officials said Sunday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-mexico-toll-ah1n1-swine-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:18:58 EST news246514727 (AP) -- U.S. health authorities say the final death toll from an outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe is 30. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-toll-melon-listeria-outbreak-dead.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:59:56 EST news242621984