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French medical authorities on Tuesday reported two new suspected cases of infection with the SARS-like virus MERS which has killed more than 30 people worldwide.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is surrounded by rumors. The influential head of no less influential IMF has been accused of raping a maid in a hotel in the U.S. followed by the accusations of organizing an underground network of sex services.

Pierre Mauroy speaking to journalists in Paris as first secretary of the Socialist party, July 1989.

Researchers from the Pasteur Institute, Lille, France have shown in a mouse model that interleukin-22 protects against bacterial superinfections that can arise following influenza.

Researchers from the Pasteur Institute, Lille, France have shown in a mouse model that interleukin-22 protects against bacterial superinfections that can arise following influenza.

A nurse walks towards the Roger Salengro Hospital in Lille, France, where two patients were diagnosed with a coronavirus related to SARS.

Thanks to Lucie Lecomte for the link to this report in Le TA©lA©gramme : Coronavirus.

A 65-year-old man has died in France from a deadly new SARS-like virus which health officials are warning is now a global threat.

Thanks to Lucie Lecomte for the link to this report from ouestfrance.fr: Coronavirus.

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