First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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More farms quarantined for mad cow disease in Canada
Three additional farms were quarantined recently as the Canadian investigators searched for the source of one case of mad cow disease amid international concerns about the country's beef. Sixteen
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Increasing asthma cases cause for worry in Chikmagalur
There are many patients here who have been suffering from various lung related ailments which are leading to complications like asthma owing to the pollutants released from the puffed rice factories
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The other AIDS epidemic
A retrovirus belonging to the family of recently discovered human T-cell leukaemia viruses (HTLV), but clearly distinct from each previous isolate, has been isolated from a Caucasian patient with
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China to crack down on eating civet cats - report
Beijing is to crack down on the eating of civet cats after research by a Hong Kong scientist showed it was likely the SARS virus that has killed almost 700 people worldwide jumped to humans from the
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Family at sea over 16-yr-old's asthma
An acute form of asthma in their six-year-old son forced an Italian couple to set sail with him on a home-made boat in the hope that living permanently at sea will help to cure him. The boy will be
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Vietnam PM's nod to HIV education kit
Prime Minister Phan Van Khai has approved the introduction of a new nationwide HIV/AIDS educatio, prevention and care programme, in the wake of new indications that the rate of infection is
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HK reports one more SARS death
The Hong Kong government said today the SARS virus has killed one more person in the territory and infected one other.The latest figures bring the local death toll from Severe Acute respiratory
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New Sars warning in Toronto
Canadian health officials said that they had detected about 20 more possible cases of Sars in the Toronto area, in addition to the 26 suspected and eight probable cases reported. Two deaths have
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SARS alert lifted, Hong Kong breathes easy
The World Health Organization's advisory against travel here, reviled as a curse on the region's economy, has now been lifted, but economic growth may not fully rebound quickly. Removal of the
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Rumour and superstition make fight against polio falter in Aligarh
More and more children in Aligarh district are ending up with twisted limbs as organisations like the WHO, UNICEF and Rotary International and the district authorities find that their concerted