Australia probes report that suspect polio virus released to the ...
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SYDNEY - Australian authorities moved Saturday to reassure people vaccinated against polio in the 1950s and 1960s after a report that a contaminated vaccine linked to cancer was issued at that time.
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A sixth suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease is being investigated on a farm in Surrey.
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Probes into the UK's recent foot-and-mouth outbreak find the virus was in a pipe on a nearby laboratory site.
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Researchers reported for the first time last week that they have found the virus in a nonprimate species â bats.
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An investigation has been ordered into whether the media was tipped off before a car bombing that caused Australia's first casualties in the Iraq conflict, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said.
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Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott has ordered a departmental review into contaminated polio vaccine, released into the community in the 1950s and 1960s by the then government, and its possible links with cancer.
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A virus appears to be a prime suspect â but not likely to be the only culprit â in the mass die-offs of honeybees reported last fall and winter.
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Health authorities in Hong Kong are  investigating the outbreak of a mysterious respiratory illness  in a hospital that has infected 28 children.
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The mystery outbreak of illness at Caritas Medical Centre was caused by the parainfluenza virus, the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health confirmed Thursday.
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A campaign to halt the spread of polio  by year-end is on track despite a new case in Saudi Arabia that  sparked fears it could be carried by Muslims going home after  the haj, the World Health Organization said on Friday.  A Nigerian boy living in Mecca, Islam's holy city, came down  with the disease in mid-December despite being vaccinated, but  has recovered from temporary paralysis, WHO officials said.
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Equine influenza appears to have spread to Australia's thoroughbreds after one tests positive for the virus.
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Scientific sleuths have a new suspect for what's been killing billions of honeybees: a virus previously unknown in the United States.
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Polio was stopped in its tracks, but now we must make sure the price was not too high. Many Australians will remember the crippling disease poliomyelitis that scourged Australia in the middle of last century.
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A support group for Australian victims of contaminated medical products has demanded a royal commission into claims a former government agency knowingly released to the public polio vaccines contaminated by a monkey virus.
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Australia was investigating whether a foreigner found dead in central Iraq could be one of two Australians allegedly kidnapped in the country earlier this week.
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Africa could soon face a major polio outbreak, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). For the first time in five years, Guinea and Mali have reported polio cases.
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THE Federal Government is investigating claims two Australians have been kidnapped in Iraq and will be killed if Australia doesn&#39;t pull out of the war zone in 24 hours.