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14 Feb 2013

The latest case brings the worldwide number of confirmed infections with the new virus - known as the novel coronavirus - to 11, of whom five have died. Most of those had recently travelled in the...

13 Feb 2013

British officials say a mysterious virus related to Sars may have spread between humans, as they confirmed the 11th case worldwide of the new coronavirus in a patient who they say probably caught...

12 Feb 2013

A new virus from the same family as Sars that sparked a global alert in September has been found in another patient in Britain, health officials said on Monday.

29 Jan 2013

Radio show that staged royal hoax scrapped

6 Dec 2012

I am writing on behalf of the Hong Kong Infant and Young Child Nutrition Association in response to letters by Caroline Carson ("Code aims to curb formula producers' outrageous claims", November...

More than 170 countries on Monday adopted what World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Margaret Chan called a “game-changing” global pact to combat the illegal tobacco trade.

The war on tuberculosis is getting new weapons for the first time in decades, offering hope for controlling the deadly disease but major funding shortfalls threaten progress, the World Health...

People on Hong Kong buses are breathing air containing twice the level of fine pollutants as that deemed safe by the World Health Organisation, an environmental group said yesterday.

Doctors should test people for a new virus only if they are very ill in hospital with a respiratory infection, have been in Qatar or Saudi Arabia and test negative for common forms of pneumonia...

The World Health Organisation on Wednesday urged health workers around the world to report any patient with acute respiratory infection who may have travelled to Saudi Arabia or Qatar and been...

British health authorities have alerted the UN of a new respiratory virus in a severely ill patient from Qatar.

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