A mysterious epidemic is devastating the Pacific coast of Central America, killing more than 24,000 people in El Salvador and Nicaragua since 2000 and striking thousands of others with chronic kidney disease at rates unseen virtually anywhere else.
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(Reuters) - Rescuers searched for more than 800 people missing in the southern Philippines on Sunday after flash floods and landslides swept houses into rivers and out to sea, killing more than 650 people in areas ill-prepared to cope with storms . [More]
Read More »Hundreds of Rare Saiga Antelopes Die in Kazakhstan (Again)
One year after a mysterious epidemic wiped out 12,000 critically endangered saiga antelopes ( Saiga tatarica ) in Kazakhstan, the ailment has struck again there, this time killing more than 400 animals. [More]
Read More »Tornadoes and storms rip through South, more than 220 dead
By Verna Gates TUSCALOOSA, Alabama (Reuters) - Tornadoes and violent storms ripped through seven southern states, killing more than 220 people as they flattened neighborhoods, flipped cars and toppled trees and power lines, officials said on Thursday. [More]
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