The Egyptian government reported the country's 21st death from the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu on Saturday. The man died in the northern Delta region, the North African nation's health ministry said.

Mohamed Idris, from Baheira, had been at a hospital in Egypt's second largest city Alexandria with reported respiratory problems and a high fever. He did not respond to the anti-viral drug Tamiflu, Deputy Minister Nasr Al Sayed told the official government news agency MENA

A new British study released on Wednesday suggests that there are few health benefits to drinking large amounts of water. A scientific review by the University of Pennsylvania said some people, such as athletes, may need to drink a lot.

Also, people who live in hot, dry climates and those with certain diseases may need extra water but the average healthy person does not. However little evidence is found that flushing out toxins through drinking copious amounts can improve health

An Indonesian girl and boy were the latest victims of bird flu virus in Indonesia, with the death toll rising to 107 people, the highest in the world, the health ministry of Indonesia said Monday.

According to ministry official Lily Sulistyowati, the latest victims were a 15-year-old teenage boy and a 12-year-old girl who died last week in separate areas in Indonesia, suburbs of Jakarta

A dengue fever outbreak in Brazil has killed 54 people and infected more than 43,000 in Rio de Janeiro state since January, health officials said Thursday. The number is nearly double the 25,107 cases reported in all of 2007.

The toll for the first three months of this year exceeds the total from all of 2007, state officials said adding that another 60 deaths were being investigated to see whether they resulted from the tropical disease. The disease is transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

An 11-year-old girl died Sunday after her parents chose to pray for healing over seeking medical help for a treatable form of diabetes. Madeline Kara Neumann died of diabetic ketoacidosis, a treatable though serious condition of type 1 diabetes in which acid builds up in the blood.

Neumann's parents said they didn't know she had diabetes and didn't take her to a doctor. Instead they prayed for her healing. The girl was suffering symptoms like nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, loss of appetite and weakness