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    NEWS UK's coronavirus death toll jumps by 113 to 578 in biggest daily rise yet as officials confirm 2,000 more cases of the killer infection with almost 12

    Britain's growing coronavirus death toll today jumped to 578 after 113 more fatalities were confirmed across the home nations, making today the UK's darkest day yet in the escalating outbreak. Health officials also more than 2,100 new patients had tested positive for the life-threatening...
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    NEWS Louisiana bars Ebola researchers from conference

    Thirty Ebola experts who traveled recently to West Africa, including an official of the World Health Organization, have been banned from attending a New Orleans medical meeting about infectious diseases. The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has warned doctors and others who returned...
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    U.S. Seeks to Reassure on Contaminated Food

    U.S. public-health officials sought Tuesday to reassure consumers about the safety of food in the U.S., including seafood, amid news that fish contaminated with unusually high levels of radioactive materials had been caught in waters 50 miles from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan...
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