Hundreds of earthquake survivors living in camps in suffer from acute diarrhea, according to World Health Organization officials.

Doctors are investigating whether the outbreak has been caused by cholera

UNICEF warns Wednesday that tens of thousands of children are in danger in remote earthquake-affected parts of Pakistan, because of deteriorating weather, injury, and illness.

The agency says immediate action must be taken to increase the number of children being reached, in order for another wave of deaths to be avoided during the harsh winter months just around the corner. As many as 10,0000 could die of hunger, hypothermia and disease within coming weeks

Doctors fear overcrowding and septic water contamination could lead to a rash of illness among survivors of a landslide that swept away their Maya Indian village this month.

Thousands of people from Panabaj are crammed into churches and houses in the nearby village of Santiago and other towns, while the government races to build temporary housing

The Food and Drug Administration is warning people not to eat certain Dole pre-packaged salads that have been connected to an E. coli outbreak in Minnesota.

The illnesses have all been associated with Dole salads bought at Rainbow Foods grocery store outlets in that state. But, salads carrying the same production codes have been distributed nationwide, prompting a national warning

According to a new U.N. Children's Fund, UNICEF, report 1.4 million children under five years of age die unnecessarily each year from measles, whooping cough or tetanus.

"Everybody thought that we were progressing so well that we would just continue to progress. But in fact that did not happen," Dr Peter Salama, UNICEF's chief of immunization, told a news conference