Health chiefs in Cambodia are searching for the cause of a mystery disease that has killed more than 60 children over the past three months.

SCIENTISTS are struggling to identify the cause of the mystery E coli outbreak which has already killed 18 people, infected 1,600 others and caused a war of words between Russia and the EU.

Canada became the third country to confirm human cases of swine flu as global health officials considered whether to raise the global pandemic alert level.

A man in China’s southern Guangdong province died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, an expert confirmed today.

China has destroyed 91,100 birds around a farm in Inner Mongolia to stop a bird flu outbreak, the World Health Organisation said today.