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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Swine flu is a respiratory sickness caused by an influenza virus that mainly infects pigs. However, sometimes the virus can sicken humans. That is what has happened in Mexico in the last few weeks. The

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have declared the end of an outbreak of Ebola virus. Cases were first identified in December in the southern province of Kasai Occidental. The W

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By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 07 March 2006 Animal health experts from the United States, European Union and UN agencies have agreed on the creation of a new crisis and coordinating center to combat the

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by Jill Moss Broadcast: July 23, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. A medical company in Australia, PanBio, has developed a new test for West Nile 1)virus. The test ex

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Evidence is increasing that common influenza viruses are becoming resistant to the main drug used to treat them. The drug is oseltamivir, also known as Tamiflu. The most common seasonal flu virus found

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. People get chikungunya fever when they are bitten by mosquitoes infected with the disease. For many years, the disease has been found in countries in Africa and Asia. The symptoms are increased bod

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Russian military trucks have started to inch their way back into Russia, but Western leaders said Wednesday that the movement from Georgia to positions agreed upon in a ceasefire accord was too limited and slow. And in Moscow, leaders were getting r

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Experts Troubled by New Dengue Outbreaks in Western Hemisphere Dengue had been eliminated in this hemisphere for quite a while but unfortunately it got reintroduced and has been generally growing since then, said Donald Shepherd. Donald Shepherd spok

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Kentucky Derby day - sorry if we didn't mention that in sports - post time this afternoon, 6:46 Eastern. Midway University - an hour's drive away from Churchill Downs to the east in the Kentucky bluegrass - it's a small school with

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By Jessica Berman Washington 14 August 2007 The cells in certain cancers, like breast cancer and colon cancer, have been shown in labs to start with a high level of genetic instability and then in later stages this level goes down A new study has fou

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