Millions of people die each year from medical errors and infections linked to health care and going into hospital is far riskier than flying, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday.

"If you were admitted to hospital tomorrow in any country... your chances of being subjected to an error in your care would be something like 1 in 10.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) believes adopting a national HIV/ AIDS policy is essential for an overall prevention and education strategy in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka has a low rate of HIV infections in the Asian region, with 3,000 infected individuals living with the HIV/AIDS virus.

World Health Organisation (WHO) says all five types of hepatitis virus (A, B, C, D and E) exist in Pakistan, says a United Nations

Cholera continues to be an important cause of human infections, and outbreaks are often observed after natural disasters, such as the one following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Once the cholera outbreak was confirmed, rumors spread that

A three-year campaign intended to expand testing for H.I.V. and get people into treatment turned up more than 18,000 adults who were not aware that they were infected, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last week.

Over all, some 2.7 million H.I.V. tests were performed between October 2007 and September 2010.

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3 cases reported from the coastal Mukkola-Vinzhinjam area

The death toll from the outbreak of E coli in Germany rose to 30 on Thursday as the Government admitted its failure in dealing with the worst bacterial epidemic in six decades.

A 57-year-old man became the latest victim who travelled with his wife to the Northern city of Hamburg, an epicentre of the outbreak, authorities said.

The Ministers also admitted failures in their crisis management a

The German government came under increased criticism on Tuesday at home and abroad, accused of mismanaging the crisis surrounding an E. coli outbreak that has killed more than 20 people.

German officials, however, reported a slight fall in the rate of newly reported infections.

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