A man dug his dead mother from the ruins of her house in China after it was forcibly demolished, media said on Friday, in apparently the country&#39;s latest deadly land dispute. 
 
The remains of Gong Xuehui, 60, were found under the rubble on Thursday following the demolition last month, the Beijing News reported. 
 
Some 100 men burst into Gong&#39;s house, dragging family members into separate vehicles and releasing them once the demolition was completed, the paper quoted her son Yang Quan as saying. 
 
Yang and other relatives began a desperate search for Huang after finding her missing, posting notices around the city. 
 
China has rapidly urbanised in recent decades, bringing regular conflicts between local government officials and residents over compensation when countryside properties are demolished. 
 
Family members in Chazishan, an example of a &quot;village within a city&quot;, surrounded by urban buildings where land can be especially valuable, had turned down a government compensation offer worth 280,000 Yuan ($42,000) per person, the paper said. 
 
The family hired a digger on Wednesday to search through the wreckage, discovering the body of Huang, who was previously in good health, the next day, it said. 
 
Police were investigating, the official Xinhua news agency reported, adding a post-mortem had begun to determine the cause of death. 
 
A 2012 survey by US advocacy group Landesa found that more than 20 per cent of farmers were never compensated when their land was sold, while others were on average paid &quot;a fraction of the mean price authorities themselves received&quot;. 
 
Workers partially demolished a hospital in the central city of Zhengzhou with several doctors and a patient still inside, media reported in January, prompting an investigation. 
 
(AFP)

Some 100 men burst into Gong's house, dragging family members into separate vehicles and releasing them once the demolition was completed

A man dug his dead mother from the ruins of her house in China after it was forcibly demolished, media said on Friday, in apparently the country's latest deadly land dispute. The remains of Gong Xuehui, 60, were found under the rubble on Thursday following the demolition last month, the Beijing News reported. Some 100 men burst into Gong's house, dragging family members into separate vehicles and releasing them once the demolition was completed, the paper quoted her son Yang Quan as saying. Yang and other relatives began a desperate search for Huang after finding her missing, posting notices around the city. China has rapidly urbanised in recent decades, bringing regular conflicts between local government officials and residents over compensation when countryside properties are demolished. Family members in Chazishan, an example of a "village within a city", surrounded by urban buildings where land can be especially valuable, had turned down a government compensation offer worth 280,000 Yuan ($42,000) per person, the paper said. The family hired a digger on Wednesday to search through the wreckage, discovering the body of Huang, who was previously in good health, the next day, it said. Police were investigating, the official Xinhua news agency reported, adding a post-mortem had begun to determine the cause of death. A 2012 survey by US advocacy group Landesa found that more than 20 per cent of farmers were never compensated when their land was sold, while others were on average paid "a fraction of the mean price authorities themselves received". Workers partially demolished a hospital in the central city of Zhengzhou with several doctors and a patient still inside, media reported in January, prompting an investigation. (AFP)

Home forcibly demolished, man in China digs dead mother out from rubble

A baby suffering from a birth defect caused by the Zika virus was born on Tuesday in New Jersey to a woman visiting from Honduras who is infected with virus after she was bitten by a mosquito early on in her pregnancy, media reported.

The baby girl is suffering from severe microcephaly, a birth defect marked by small head size that can lead to severe developmental problems, after she was delivered through cesarean section at Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, New Jersey, the news website NorthJersey.com reported.

U.S.&nbsp;health&nbsp;officials have concluded that Zika infections in pregnant women can cause microcephaly. The World&nbsp;Health&nbsp;Organization has said there is strong scientific consensus that Zika can also cause Guillain-Barre, a rare neurological syndrome that causes temporary paralysis in adults.

The connection between Zika and microcephaly first came to light last fall in Brazil, which has now confirmed more than 1,300 cases of microcephaly that it considers to be related to Zika infections in the mothers.

The unidentified premature newborn also suffers from intestinal and visual issues, Manny Alvarez, chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Hackensack, told NorthJersey.com.

&quot;You could see the pain in her heart,&quot; Alvarez said of the mother, the website reported.

Hospital officials were not available for comment.

The unidentified 31-year-old mother was staying with relatives after she arrived in the United States more than a month ago from Honduras, where she was bitten by a mosquito, Alvarez said.

Zika is carried by mosquitoes, which transmit the virus to humans. A small number of cases of sexual transmission have been reported in the United States and elsewhere. A case of suspected transmission through a blood transfusion in Brazil has raised questions about other ways that Zika may spread.

In January, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that a U.S. woman who had lived in Brazil gave birth to a microcephalic baby in Hawaii.

The Zika outbreak is affecting large parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, with Brazil the hardest hit.

Honduras is the Central American country with the highest number of Zika cases, with 19,000 infections, and at least 238 pregnant women infected. It has also detected at least 78 Guillain-Barre cases.

There is no vaccine or treatment for Zika, which is a close cousin of dengue and chikungunya and causes mild fever, rash and red eyes. An estimated 80 percent of people infected have no symptoms, making it difficult for pregnant women to know whether they have been infected.

A baby suffering from a birth defect caused by the Zika virus was born on Tuesday in New Jersey to a woman visiting from Honduras who is infected with virus after she was bitten by a mosquito early on in her pregnancy, media reported.

A baby suffering from a birth defect caused by the Zika virus was born on Tuesday in New Jersey to a woman visiting from Honduras who is infected with virus after she was bitten by a mosquito early on in her pregnancy, media reported. The baby girl is suffering from severe microcephaly, a birth defect marked by small head size that can lead to severe developmental problems, after she was delivered through cesarean section at Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, New Jersey, the news website NorthJersey.com reported. U.S. health officials have concluded that Zika infections in pregnant women can cause microcephaly. The World Health Organization has said there is strong scientific consensus that Zika can also cause Guillain-Barre, a rare neurological syndrome that causes temporary paralysis in adults. The connection between Zika and microcephaly first came to light last fall in Brazil, which has now confirmed more than 1,300 cases of microcephaly that it considers to be related to Zika infections in the mothers. The unidentified premature newborn also suffers from intestinal and visual issues, Manny Alvarez, chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Hackensack, told NorthJersey.com. "You could see the pain in her heart," Alvarez said of the mother, the website reported. Hospital officials were not available for comment. The unidentified 31-year-old mother was staying with relatives after she arrived in the United States more than a month ago from Honduras, where she was bitten by a mosquito, Alvarez said. Zika is carried by mosquitoes, which transmit the virus to humans. A small number of cases of sexual transmission have been reported in the United States and elsewhere. A case of suspected transmission through a blood transfusion in Brazil has raised questions about other ways that Zika may spread. In January, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that a U.S. woman who had lived in Brazil gave birth to a microcephalic baby in Hawaii. The Zika outbreak is affecting large parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, with Brazil the hardest hit. Honduras is the Central American country with the highest number of Zika cases, with 19,000 infections, and at least 238 pregnant women infected. It has also detected at least 78 Guillain-Barre cases. There is no vaccine or treatment for Zika, which is a close cousin of dengue and chikungunya and causes mild fever, rash and red eyes. An estimated 80 percent of people infected have no symptoms, making it difficult for pregnant women to know whether they have been infected.

Baby born with birth defect in New Jersey to mother infected by Zika

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