Category: Community
Taipei HIV cases grow at 10% a year: Officials
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taipei is now seeing a 10-per cent annual growth rate in the number of HIV patients, the city’s Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday, adding that most of the patients are infected through unprotected sex. The DOH […]
22 Bihar Districts Hit by Arsenic
Public Health and Engineering Department Minister Chandra Mohan Rai has said that high levels of arsenic and fluoride have been found in the groundwater of 22 Bihar districts, posing environmental and health hazards. Rai told the assembly that 5,747 villages […]
Jordan confirms 4th fatality of H1N1 influenza this year
AMMAN- Jordanian health authorities announced Thursday the death of a 27-year-old pregnant woman suffering from H1N1 influenza, which increased the death toll of the disease in the country to four since the beginning of this year, the state-run Petra news […]
Hand-foot-mouth Disease Affects 10,000 in Vietnam
The hand-foot-mouth disease, a contagious viral disease particularly affecting infants and children, has hit over 10,000 Vietnamese. Nguyen Van Binh, head of the ministry’s Preventive Health Department, said the disease has spread to 60 of the country’s 64 provinces, Xinhua […]
Bihar: 6000 Chickens Culled After Bird Flu Outbreak
In Bihar’s Purnea district, nearly 6,000 chickens were culled following an outbreak of bird flu, say officials. Rajesh Kumar, director of state animal husbandry department, said he has ordered the administration to keep a close watch on the situation for […]
Japan’s herbal medicine industry worries as China restricts licorice supplies
Companies making Chinese herbal medicine are stepping up efforts to ensure a stable supply of licorice, a major raw material for the medicine whose import price has increased by about 50 per cent over the past five years. The price […]
Suspected H1N1 flu kills 5 in Libya
TRIPOLI- Five deaths have been confirmed among the 29 suspected cases of influenza A (H1N1) virus infections in Libya, Health Minister Noor Eddin Dughman told a press conference Tuesday. According to the health ministry, four deaths were reported in the […]
Epidemic ruled out as cause of dead pigs
CHINA – A mass swine epidemic is not what killed nearly 6,000 pigs that have floated downstream to Shanghai from Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, since last week, officials said on Tuesday. “No abnormal animal epidemic was reported in Jiaxing,” Jiang Hao, […]
Death toll of novel coronavirus rises to nine
The Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia has informed the World Health Organization (WHO) of another death of confirmed novel coronavirus infection, bringing the death toll of the virus to nine, WHO said Tuesday. The patient, a 39-year-old male, developed […]
Mystery skin disease infects 17, kills 1 in central Vietnam
HANOI – An unidentified mystery skin disease have infected 17 people from Vietnam’s central Quang Ngai province, killing one, so far this year, local health official said Tuesday. Le Huy, an official from Quang Ngai health department, told local Vietnam […]
