A vendor waits for customers near chicken cages at a market in Fuyang city, in central China's Anhui province, Sunday, March 31, 2013. Two Shanghai men have died from a lesser-known type of bird flu in the first known human deaths from the strain.

Questions in China on how H7N9 flu strain killed two

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BEIJING - Health officials say they still don't understand how a lesser-known bird flu virus was able to kill two men and seriously sicken a woman in China, but that it's unlikely that it can spread easily among humans. Two men in Shanghai became the first known human fatalities from the H7N9 bird flu virus after contracting it in...

Smoking increases the risk of TB infection. (illustration)

Senin , 01 Apr 2013, 00:52 WIB

Smoking makes Indonesians more prone to TB

A four year toddler from Madura, East Java, suffers malnutrition as the threats of malnutrition still lingers in Indonesia. (illustration)

Senin , 04 Mar 2013, 23:43 WIB

Malnutrition threats still linger in Indonesia

The new vaccine, oral rotavirus vaccine candidate, RV3, is aimed at reducing diseases and death from diarrhoeal disease. (Illustration)

Sabtu , 02 Mar 2013, 23:19 WIB

New vaccine launched to save thousands babies

People wash clothes at the river in Karawang, West Java.

Minister: Seven percent of Indonesians have no access to good sanitation

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, NUSA DUA- About seven percent of Indonesians had no access to adequate sanitation, Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi said on Monday. "Seven percent of Indonesia`s total 300 million people means there are 21 million Indonesians not having access to good sanitation," said the minister, when opening the 3rd East Asia Ministerial Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene on Monday. Earlier, public Works...