News: Asia 
China: Seasonal flu activity – 40% of isolates were H1N1 – on the rise(0)
Hong Kong–The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health today (July 29) cautioned that the latest surveillance data had shown increasing influenza activity in recent weeks.
The CHP’s Public Health Laboratory Centre recorded 125 influenza detections for the week ending July 24, compared with 98 influenza detections for the week ending July 17.
“Influenza [...]
China: A cluster of H1N1 influenza cases in wards of Cheshire Home Chung Hom Kok
Hong Kong–The following is issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority:
The spokesperson of Cheshire Home Chung Hom Kok made the following announcement yesterday (July 31):
Three male patients (aged from 44 to 81) and two female patients (aged from 59 to 61) of two male wards and one female ward of Cheshire Home Chung Hom Kok [...]
Tajikistan: Polio outbreak is cause for alarm
Ottawa ON–The rapidly growing polio outbreak in Tajikistan raises serious concerns that the disease could spread to other regions in the world, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). It is imperative that health agencies attempt to limit further spread by ensuring high vaccination rates.
Polio is a serious disease that can cause paralysis [...]
Bangladesh: New study links 1 in 5 deaths to arsenic in the drinking water
Chicago IL–Between 33 and 77 million people in Bangladesh have been exposed to arsenic in the drinking water—a catastrophe that the World Health Organization has called “the largest mass poisoning in history.” A new study published in the current issue of the medical journal The Lancet provides the most complete and detailed picture to date [...]
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