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China Hails Doctor for Raising Child Virus Alarm
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A strain of hand, foot and mouth disease has killed four more children in China, bringing the death toll in recent weeks to 34, state media said on Friday, as it praised a doctor who alerted authorities to the epidemic. Reuters Health Information
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Laboratory Workers Infected With Brucella
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In a report released Thursday, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describe two cases of laboratory-acquired Brucellosis that occurred in Indiana and Minnesota in 2006. Reuters Health Information
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Virulent Strain of Bovine S. Aureus Poses Potential Public Health Threat
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A new virulent subtype of the common clone of Staphylococcus aureus, ET3, has emerged, causing a large number of cases of bovine mastitis, occasionally causing zoonotic diseases in humans, and carrying the potential for serious antibiotic-resistant illness. Reuters Health Information
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Norovirus Sweeps Through Britain
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Hundreds of thousands of Britons have been struck down by a highly infectious stomach virus that swept the country during the holiday period, doctors said on Thursday. Reuters Health Information
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