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The United States is offering to help China in its fight against a viral infection that has killed 34 children, including two reported Friday, and sickened thousands of others. ... U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt is making a previously scheduled...
Ho report - Download (MP3) Ho report - Listen (MP3) The U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt says the United States is helping China work to prevent the outbreak of infectious diseases following this week's massive earthquake. Stephanie Ho reports from Beijing. Secretary Leavitt...
BEIJING -- U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt confirmed that the U.S. will bar Chinese companies that don't meet product-quality certification standards from the U.S. market. Mr. Leavitt said regulators can't possibly inspect the $2 trillion of goods the U.S. will likely import...
Posted on: Thursday, 15 May 2008, 06:00 CDT By Wendy Koch Twelve U.S. tourists who were visiting a panda-breeding reserve in China on Monday survived the country's magnitude-7.9 earthquake unhurt. "We were able to make contact with them" early Wednesday by satellite phone, said Kerry Zobor,...
By CARA ANNA Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) - The health bureau also told Xinhua that another child died of the illness in Beijing, but the death was counted in the victim's home province of Hebei, which neighbors Beijing. Hand, foot and mouth disease has sickened more than 24,934 children...
