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In rough US flu season for kids, vaccine working OK so far

By MIKE STOBBE | February 20, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — It may end up being a bad flu season for kids, but early signs suggest the vaccine is working OK.The vaccine has been more than 50% effective in preventing flu illness severe enough to send a child to the doctor's office, the U.S. Centers...

Haiti officials say 15 children died in residence fire

By EVENS SANON, MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, and BEN FOX | February 14, 2020

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A fire swept through a Haitian children's home run by a Pennsylvania-based religious nonprofit group, killing 15 children, officials said Friday.Rose-Marie Louis, a child-care worker at the home, told The Associated Press...

UK man linked to virus spread thanks doctors for recovery

By DANICA KIRKA | February 11, 2020

LONDON (AP) — A businessman from England who contracted the new virus from China and may have spread it through his wide travels thanked Britain's National Health Service after he recovered.Steve Walsh issued a statement Tuesday after being the focus...

ICE sued over treatment of 5-year-old with head injury

By NOMAAN MERCHANT | February 8, 2020

HOUSTON (AP) — The mother of a 5-year-old Guatemalan boy sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the medical care he has received in detention for a head injury suffered before the family was arrested.The lawsuit filed late Friday in California...

China’s Communist Party faces recriminations over virus

By KEN MORITSUGU and MARI YAMAGUCHI | February 7, 2020

BEIJING (AP) — China's ruling Communist Party faced public anger and recrimination Friday over the death of a doctor who was threatened by the authorities after trying to sound the alarm about the new coronavirus back in December. The death toll, meanwhile,...

Chinese doctor who sounded the alarm about the virus dies

By KEN MORITSUGU | February 6, 2020

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese doctor who got in trouble with authorities in the communist country for sounding an early warning about the coronavirus outbreak died Friday after coming down with the illness.The Wuhan Central Hospital said on its social media...

FDA approves first treatment for kids with peanut allergy

By LAURAN NEERGAARD | January 31, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first treatment for peanut allergies is about to hit the market, a big step toward better care for all kinds of food allergies -- but still a long way from a cure.Friday’s approval by the Food and Drug Administration promises...

The Latest: Autoworker’s child among Germany’s 7 virus cases

January 31, 2020

BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on the outbreak of a new virus from China (all times local):4:40 a.m.Germany has confirmed its sixth and seventh cases of the virus that is spreading from central China — and one new patient is a child of an employee who...

Autistic futures trader who triggered crash spared prison

By MICHAEL TARM | January 28, 2020

CHICAGO (AP) — A U.S. judge Tuesday sentenced a socially awkward math whiz-turned-futures trader who earned tens of millions of dollars over several years and helped trigger a U.S. stock market “flash crash” from his parents’ suburban London home...