Tag: two-suffered
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First face transplant recipient died of rare tumour: doctors
The world's first face transplant recipient, Frenchwoman Isabelle Dinoire, died of a cancer unrelated to medicine she was taking to stop her body rejecting the graft, doctors said Wednesday. On Tuesday, doctors announced she had died in April after a “long illness”. The mother of two suffered many complications over the years related to the…
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China offers ‘free screening’ for travelers from Zika-hit countries
China will offer Zika health screenings for travelers from Singapore and other affected countries, the quarantine bureau said on Wednesday, without explaining whether the tests would be compulsory. China has previously announced that it would step up checks on people and goods from the Singapore, where more than 240 locally transmitted cases of the Zika…