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Superbugs hit wave patients

Farmers gives $1m to leukaemia charity

Farmers' $1 million donation to the Leukaemia and Blood Foundation has a personal connection for the firm's owners.

Samoa gears up for disease outbreak

John Key last night voiced fears that the death toll in tsunami stricken Samoa could rise even higher with the outbreak of disease.

Rheumatic fever: NZ's third world illness

Report shows how many people you've slept with

Survey: Kiwis neglect eyes

<i>Nigel Wilson</i>: Hidden scandal of rheumatic fever a costly timebomb

Brave boy reads his own story of survival

Ban ham in kids' lunches, say cancer researchers

Quarantine lifted in China

Is vaccination the answer to preventing a measles epidemic?

Scientists alarmed by drug-resistant malaria

More trouble for Rudd in bid to tackle racial inequality

Child's death brings swine flu toll to 11

Allergy hopes in butter

<i>Editorial:</i> Let's make our own daily bread