U.N. aid agencies said they are facing enormous difficulties in efforts to contain the deadly cholera epidemic that has affected thousands of people in Zimbabwe. They said the health system in the country has collapsed and even the most basic suppli

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LOS ANGELES, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Obesity rates in the United States climbed over the past year in 16 states, and not a single state reported a decline in the proportion of excessively overweight residents, according to a report released on Thursday. T

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今天我们要学的词是epidemic。 Epidemic, 是流行病的意思。星期一是世界艾滋病日。 World AIDS Day was established in 1988 to increase the awareness of the epidemic, 世界艾滋病日是1988年创立的,目的在于增加社会

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By Carol Pearson Washington 07 September 2007 Hepatitis B is caused by a virus that infects the liver, causing disease that can lead to a deadly cancer. The World Health Organization calls hepatitis B a serious global public health problem. Many peop

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 08 March 2007 Students in California are learning emergency skills to help if a disaster strikes their community. Mike O'Sullivan reports, they are mastering first aid and disaster communications. Tom Baker Tom Baker t

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Indonesia's smoking babies 'epidemic' What if the chain-smoking toddler in a 2010 viral video was just the tip of the country's tobacco problem? After a video of a chain-smoking 2-year-old Indonesian boy, Aldi, went viral last year, piling up 13 mill

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