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South Carolina Flooding

A truck rests off a washed out road outside of Columbia, S.C., Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. After a week of steady rain, the showers tapered off Monday and an inundated South Carolina turned to surveying a road system shredded by historic flooding. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
South Carolina flood: Door-to-door searches, swamped roads

A woman walks down a flooded sidewalk toward an open convenience store in Charleston, S.C., Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in South Carolina and ordered federal aid to bolster state and local efforts as flood warnings remained in effect for many parts of the East Coast through Sunday. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Delhi battles dengue fever surge

Residents cover their face and run in smoke as a municipal worker fumigates a residential area to prevent mosquitoes from breeding in New Delhi, India, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015
The Indian capital, Delhi, is in the grip of the worst outbreak of dengue fever in five years, officials say
State Department: Acts of terror rose by more than third, deaths nearly doubled between 2013, 2014
Southern Plains Flooding: At Least 28 Killed in Texas and Oklahoma; President Obama Signs Disaster Declaration

Roberto Salas, left, and Lewis Sternhagen check a flooded car on a frontage road near the Willow Waterhole Bayou on Tuesday in Houston. Floodwaters kept rising Tuesday across much of Texas as storms dumped almost another foot of rain on the Houston area, stranding hundreds of motorists and inundating the highways. (Marie D. De Jesus/AP)
Saudi MERS deaths spike, Riyadh says

An Indian worker wears a mouth and nose mask as he touches a camel at his employer’s farm, outside Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 12, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Fayez Nureldine)
16 people have died of the coronavirus in the kingdom since February 11, raising toll to 382
Malaria killing thousands more than Ebola in West Africa

FILE- In this Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010, file photo, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, left, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Blair’s left, and Religion Leaders hold a Mosquito net with a women lying inside to demonstrate the use of the net against malaria in Abuja, Nigeria. The operation to fight Ebola in West Africa has hampered the campaigns against malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that is claiming many thousands of lives. In information released Sunday Dec. 28, 2014, Dr. Bernard Nahlen, deputy director of the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative says they have had to stop pricking fingers to do blood tests for malaria, so statistics show a decrease in reported cases of maleria but the decrease is likely because people are too scared to go to health facilities and are not getting treated for malaria.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, FILE)
Saudi Arabia reports 5 more deaths from MERS

FILE – This undated file electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases – Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows novel coronavirus particles, also known as the MERS virus, colorized in yellow. Four more people have died in Saudi Arabia after contracting an often fatal Middle East respiratory virus as the number of new confirmed infections in the kingdom climbs higher, according to health officials. The Saudi health ministry said in a statement posted online late Wednesday, May 8, 2014 that 18 new confirmed cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome were reported in the capital Riyadh, the western cities of Jiddah, Mecca and Medina, and in the city of Najran, along the border with Yemen.(AP Photo/NIAID – RML, File)
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