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A young British woman who kicked her boyfriend out of bed because he snored, came to the shocking discovery that her friend had not snorted, but he instead his last breath.

A raccoon in the US state of Virginia made Friday morning the ride of his life. Perched on a garbage truck.

An Italian wild Wednesday so eager to see how Juventus took on Crotone, he decided to invent a disease. The stadium with 16,000 seats were sold out stiff, but the nearby hospital has a good view of the field.

Super parasites that are resistant to multiple malarial drugs have emerged in parts of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. Scientists warn that these parasites threaten the fight against malaria.

A drug that is commonly used to treat malaria patients, it has not worked for the first time in the United Kingdom. That raises the question whether the parasite that causes the dreaded disease after transmission through a mosquito resistant to becoming. According to researchers at a specialized medical institution in London is an 'early warning' for Africa.

UNICEF calls this year, more than 3 billion euros to provide emergency assistance to children, about 500 million more than last year. According to the children's UN more children need such assistance, 48 million instead of 43 million in 2016.

British actor John Hurt, best known for roles in the Harry Potter film series and The Elephant Man, is deceased at the age of 77. That report different British media.

Health authorities in Brazil are by all means in the back to prevent an outbreak of yellow fever assumes epidemic proportions. The dangerous infectious disease has taken so far certainly seventy people, of whom forty are deceased.

The charity of Mark Zuckerberg and his wife bought a site for the first time. The organization buys Meta, a site that will help scientists to find important research results. If the algorithm of the search engine has been improved, Meta is available for free.

After zikavirus now concern an outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil, especially in the state of Minas Gerais. The Ministry of Health there has registered in recent weeks, 272 suspected cases of yellow fever, of which 71 were fatal. The authorities have more than 2 million doses of vaccine available to prevent further spread of the disease.

oormalig US President George H. W. Bush (92) is for some unknown reason hospitalized in Houston. He is in stable condition. That says his chief of staff Jean Becker, reports BNO News. It is expected he will stay a few days.

The number of Dutch people with flu symptoms has increased last week. According to research institute Nivel went 92 in 100,000 people to the doctor with flu-like symptoms. The week before that there were 79.

The shark fin soup lovers get increasingly difficult. Air China Cargo put an end to transport the fins. This excludes these large carrier itself with over thirty other airlines the shark already did in the spell.

The British born astronaut Piers Sellers who else other three space flights for NASA made is Friday at the age of 61 deceased in the US city of Houston. The British and American media reported Saturday.

Neighbors call it the 'potato woman 'and her grandson three starts crying when he sees his grandmother. Life is lonely painful for the woman whose body is covered with hundreds of tumors. But Hosineara Begum from Bangladesh did not always look so frightening.

'Smoking kills and causes disease. I therefore advise all Dutch people to stop smoking, 'said Philip Morris CEO Andre Calantzopoulos. He pleaded Wednesday for an adaptation of the Dutch laws and regulations, so that the tobacco giant an alternative cigarette can draw attention.

The hospital Medisch Spectrum Twente comes with a specially developed app care about the cartoon character Obbe young bowel patients' digitally preparing a recording or surgery. Hospitals throughout the country following the experiment closely.

The number of giraffes in nature in recent years so drastically reduced that the species are now 'vulnerable' has been identified. Nature Organization IUCN has the giraffe put on the so-called Red List.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has no regrets that he has declared banknotes of 500 and 1000 rupees invalid. The measure against tax evasion and counterfeiting creates a lot of anxiety and long lines at banks, but according to Modi was his decision necessity.

The world's most famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has been unexpectedly hospitalized in Rome. The 74-year-old scientist is not in danger, the University Clinic reports in the Italian capital.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has apologized brought to the people of Haiti for the role the UN played in the outbreak of cholera on the island in 2010. UN soldiers from Nepal were the disease to Haiti released until 2010 was of cholera.

It is a disease that belongs in films about sailors who sailed the seas for four hundred years ago: scurvy. Due to a prolonged vitamin C deficiency arose swelling and bleeding. Without treatment, death to them. A doctor in Sydney was surprised when he recently in several patients had diagnose scurvy.

Japan has begun to cull more than 300,000 chickens and ducks after the discovery of a highly contagious variant of bird flu. The outbreak of the disease on farms in the north of Japan, the first in nearly two years, local authorities reported Tuesday.

In Texas, the first Monday of infection determined by the zikavirus, which is very likely carried by a native mosquito. This is the disease that can cause birth defects again more widespread on the mainland of the United States.

The outbreak of bird flu in the German state of Lower Saxony seems under control. From test results it has been found that the disease has not spread. This was announced by the responsible authorities Monday in Oldenburg.

In Brazil, the number of infections increased dramatically with the chikungunya virus. In the country this year registered more than 251,000 cases of illness. This was announced by the Brazilian Ministry of Health Thursday.

bird flu has been detected on a poultry fattening in the German district of Cloppenburg. The infection is caused by the dreaded Influenza A virus subtype H5N8 virus. Which announced the research institute of the Ministry of Agriculture on Wednesday.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her entourage took on their journey to Africa, hundreds of Viagra pills.

IPhone manufacturer Apple has launched a repair program for the iPhone 6s. Owners of smartphones who suffer from sudden failure of the device can replace their batteries.

By red squirrels in Britain and Ireland has been a remarkable diagnosis: they have a medieval form of leprosy among the members. The public is reminded some distance to keep the popular animals, though the chance is very small infection according to scientists.