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Yellow fever vaccines being sent to Paraguay-WHO
20 Feb 2008 18:10:00 GMT
Source: Reuters
GENEVA, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday that Yellow fever vaccines are being sent to Paraguay, where at least four people have died in the country's first ... 

Study urges new focus in hunt for emerging diseases
20 Feb 2008 18:00:02 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Michael Kahn LONDON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Health experts are mostly looking in the wrong places for the next AIDS, Ebola, or bird flu and should shift resources from rich countries to the ... 

Benin: Meningitis Epidemic
20 Feb 2008 14:30:00 GMT
Source: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

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China confirms new human death from bird flu
18 Feb 2008 15:57:27 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds details, background) BEIJING, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A 22-year-old Chinese man from the central province of Hunan has died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the second death from the disease since ... 

Bangladesh culls more fowl to contain bird flu
18 Feb 2008 11:54:59 GMT
Source: Reuters
DHAKA, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Bangladesh culled nearly 200,000 chickens overnight in bird-flu affected farms in an effort to contain an outbreak of the disease that now has hit more than two-thirds of the ... 

Indonesian boy dies of bird flu
18 Feb 2008 09:27:37 GMT
Source: Reuters

Child campaign brings Freetown slum to Internet
18 Feb 2008 00:00:05 GMT
Source: Reuters

VIDEO: Bush set for Africa tour
15 Feb 2008 09:48:00 GMT
Source: AlertNet

Bird flu spreads to another Bangladesh district
15 Feb 2008 04:32:37 GMT
Source: Reuters

U.S. businessman Chambers to head UN malaria drive
14 Feb 2008 21:35:54 GMT
Source: Reuters



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