Two teams of scientists say they have found a key area of the H5N1 bird flu virus which seems to be vital to its ability to copy itself, and hope the discovery could lead to new drugs to fight the infection.
Two brothers who sold fresh milk used to produce contaminated baby milk powder were arrested by Chinese investigators Monday and could face death if convicted, according to China Daily, the state-run newspaper.
Food safety officials come under intense scrutiny as the number of infants sickened by a batch of tainted milk powder has expanded
Officials on Monday announced the death of a second child who consumed contaminated milk powder. More than 1,200 others have been sickened, according to China's Health Ministry.
Chinese police arrested two brothers suspected of adding a
dangerous chemical to milk they sold to a company that produced
infant formula that killed two babies and sickened more than 1,200
others
Tainted baby formula has sickened at least 50 Chinese infants, resulting in one death and prompting a nationwide investigation, according to China's state-run news agency.
China faces growing demand for mental health care in the aftermath of
last month's devastating earthquake, which killed at least 70,000
people and left millions homeless, the World Health Organization said
Friday
Hand-foot-mouth disease has struck 11,905 people and has proved fatal in 26 cases, all of them children, China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported Monday.
China is stepping up controls on dental care products amid international alarm over Chinese toothpaste producers' use of a potentially toxic chemical found in antifreeze
China has recorded its sixth death from the avian flu virus, according to a report on the Chinese Health Ministry's Web site.
The World Health Organization confirmed two human cases of bird flu in China, including a female poultry worker who died from the H5N1 strain of avian influenza.
China's Ministry of Health has confirmed a woman who died last week in Anhui province had SARS -- the first death from the illness this year.
The Chinese Health Ministry has reported two confirmed cases of SARS, one in the eastern province of Anhui and the other in the capital, Beijing, a spokesman for the ministry said.
China has reported a suspected case of the potentially deadly SARS virus in Beijing for the first time since an outbreak of the contagious disease subsided in July.
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