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Experts scramble, but new virus vaccine may not come in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The flu-like virus that exploded from China has researchers worldwide once again scrambling to find a vaccine against a surprise health threat, with no guarantee one will arrive in time. Just days after Chinese scientists shared the genetic map of the culprit coronavirus, researchers at the U.S.

China deaths rise to 490, Japan confirms 10 cases on…

BEIJING (AP) — Deaths from a new virus rose to 490 in mainland China on Wednesday while new cases on

Philippines reports 1st virus death outside of China

BEIJING (AP) — The Philippines on Sunday reported the first death from a new virus outside of China, where authorities

Do masks offer protection from new virus? It depends

SEATTLE (AP) — People around the world are buying up protective face masks in hopes of keeping the new virus

Australians leave homes as heat, winds escalate fire danger

EDEN, Australia (AP) — Thousands of people fled their homes and helicopters dropped supplies to towns at risk of nearby

Australia battles ‘catastrophic’ wildfires as PM rushes home

PERTH, Australia, Dec 21, 2019 (AP) — Australia’s most populous state was paralyzed by “catastrophic” fire conditions Saturday amid soaring

67-year-old becomes China’s ‘oldest new mother’

BEIJING, Oct 28 (AFP) – A 67-year-old woman has given birth in China, a hospital said Monday, with the parents

3 get Nobel Medicine prize for learning how cells use…

LONDON, Oct 7 (AP/RSS) — Two Americans and a British scientist won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

American man jailed in US over Singapore HIV data leak

SINGAPORE, Sept 30 (AFP) – An American man who leaked confidential details of thousands of HIV-positive people in Singapore, most