101.   Because the hanta virus is so difficult to contract, health officials said they were alarmed that seven people had died of the disease in only three months.

102.   Blood tests in people and birds showed the kind of immune response typical when a body is freshly exposed to an infection, according to federal health officials.

103.   Border health officials said the problem is magnified in Mexico, where canine populations are greater and vaccination efforts are fewer.

104.   Boston health officials are certain that mosquitoes here are carriers.

105.   A first sanitarium outside Havana filled quickly, and health officials hurried to establish others around the island.

106.   A county health official went into the AMI building with a brown grocery bag, but she would not comment as to what was inside.

107.   A health official in the northern Namibian town of Rundu, where AIDS is taking a particularly grim toll, agrees.

108.   A new state law may try to crack down on teen smoking, but getting the message out is not an easy matter, health officials admit.

109.   A health official confirmed Friday that nevirapine would be distributed to pregnant women soon.

110.   A health official told her the federal government was working on a new supply of a modernized vaccine.