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15 people died because of coal stove and bad weather
More than 270 people were sick and 15 died of CO poisoning in Jilin Province, northeastern China, the local government announced yesterday. The reason is due to the comb…
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France: Allows research on human embryos
The French government has just announced the official decree allowing research activities on human embryos and stem cells. According to the decree, research on human emb…
Cancer
What is electronic cigarette? What does it contain inside?
Not long ago a study by the US government-funded Harvard University concluded that 75% of the 51 electronic cigarette oils contained diacetyl, a type of obstructive pneu…
Cancer
Dust pollution from China spread to Japan
On February 4, the Japanese government issued a health warning to the people when dense dust from China attacked the country.
Cancer
Formaldehyde causes blood and leukemia
Workers exposed to formaldehyde are at high risk for blood or lymphoma, US government scientists announced.
Cancer
The vaccine for cervical cancer is suspected of being safe
A US government report today raises new questions about the safety of Gardasil cervical cancer vaccine, due to 32 unexplained deaths, as well as a rate of fainting. shoc…
Flu epidemic
H7 strain bird flu first appeared in Macau
On March 13, the government of the Special Administrative Region of Macau (China) said it had discovered for the first time the H7 bird flu virus in live poultry samples…
Flu epidemic
The H7N9 flu attacks many Chinese provinces
On April 13, the Beijing city government announced the first case here to be infected with H7N9, a 7-year-old girl. Subsequently, Ha Nam province in turn confirmed the p…
Flu epidemic
Destroy 8 million chickens because of the flu
Mexico has just destroyed 8 million chickens and vaccinated another 66 million to prevent the spread of flu when the disease is outbreaking in the western part of the co…
Flu epidemic
CS-8958 treat influenza virus resistant tamiflu
Japanese scientists have just confirmed, the Japanese government has officially approved the anti-influenza drug produced by the country itself called CS-8958 (laninamiv…
Flu epidemic
Announcing the genome of 150 types of avian influenza viruses
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) government and scientists, together with university and industry partners, have published the entire gene coding sequence of 150…
Flu epidemic
Malaysia announced to escape bird flu
Agriculture and agro-industrial minister Muhyiddin Yassin said the monitoring and testing conducted three months ago met the conditions set by the World Organization for…
Flu epidemic
South Korea confirmed the outbreak of bird flu
The Seoul government has confirmed that South Korean authorities have been forced to destroy thousands of ducks when the bird flu broke out for the first time in the cou…
Flu epidemic
Poland: detected the fifth bird flu outbreak
On December 12, the Polish government announced the discovery of the fifth bird flu outbreak in the country. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of poultry at a farm in Vostov…
Flu epidemic
Indonesians are not aware of the threat of bird flu
According to the Indonesian government, the fight against bird flu in the country has been hampered because the majority of the population knows nothing about the danger…