Topic: East Asia
BEIJING (Reuters) - The price of garlic in China has nearly quadrupled since March, propelled by its very pungency to rank ahead of gold and stocks as the country's best-performing asset this year.The trigger for the bull run may have been the ...
China has discovered eight people with mutated versions of swine flu but drugs are still effective against the new strains, a senior health official told the official Xinhua news agency.Shu Yuelong, director of the Chinese National Influenza Centre, said the first mutated ...
China reports 8 cases of mutated swine flu virus; says drugs, vaccine still effectiveChina has detected eight people infected with mutated forms of the swine flu virus, a health official said Wednesday, but flu drugs and vaccines still work against it.Flu viruses ...
China reports 8 cases of swine flu virus mutation; says drugs, vaccine still effectiveChina has detected eight cases of swine flu mutation, a health official said Wednesday, amid longstanding concerns among scientists that the virus could change into a more dangerous form.Last ...
China closes research base as a precaution to protect pandas from swine fluA panda research center in northwestern China has been closed to visitors as a precaution to protect the endangered species from catching swine flu, state media reported on Tuesday.It is ...
China has ordered more accurate reporting of swine flu deaths after a doctor renowned for helping expose the scale of the 2003 SARS outbreak claimed the true number of fatalities was being covered up.The health ministry " reaffirms that health authorities at ...
China to punish those concealing swine flu cases, while doctor warns of cover-upChina's health ministry said it will punish officials who underreport cases of swine flu after a doctor famous for exposing the extent of the 2003 SARS epidemic said he believes ...
Radical swine flu measures in China, elsewhere, won't stop outbreaksHealth experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms have failed to contain the disease.Despite initially ...
SEOUL (Reuters Life! ) - Not even the H1N1 flu, which has paralyzed many parts of the globe, could stop South Korean teens from taking the national college entrance exam, a test many feel will set the course for their future.The flu ...
With the number of swine flu cases tripling every month in China, Chinese vaccine makers and other medical stocks are also flying toward their peaks.. They included a 33-year-old man from northwest China's Gansu Province, two teenagers from north Hebei Province and ...
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