UN tries to ease fear about polio outbreak
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GENEVA -- The UN health agency yesterday sought to ease fears of a major polio outbreak in Saudi Arabia fueled by Islamic pilgrims from African nations that are still in the grip of the disease.
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The United Nations said on Monday it  was calling for a halt to fighting across Sudan this month to  cover a three-day campaign to vaccinate people against polio  and stave off a feared epidemic.
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KANO, Nigeria  - Political leaders and health  workers launched a drive Saturday to immunise more than 80  million children against polio in 23 African nations and fight  back against a resurgence of the crippling disease.
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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called on Wednesday for a new drive to stamp out polio, saying it was probably now or never for ridding the world of the paralyzing disease that attacks mainly children.
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The polio virus remains a threat in Niger, with 18 new cases so far this year, but many parents are deeply suspicious of the UN's drive to immunise children, according to a World Health Organisation report.
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GENEVA UN officials are warning that diseases could begin taking hold of tsunami-affected areas &quot;in the next few days.&quot;.
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The United Nations said Friday that Sudan's government and rebels have have responded positively to a cease-fire plea in the western Darfur region to allow a polio vaccination campaign, but Sudan warned of imminent guerrilla attacks.
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The United Nations warned on Monday of  epidemics within days unless health systems in southern Asia  can cope after more than 14,000 people were killed and hundreds  of thousands left homeless by a giant tsunami.
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New rules to help the United Nations  contain public health emergencies took effect on Friday,  requiring countries to disclose potential threats from disease,  chemical agents, radioactive materials and contaminated food.
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GENEVA Aug. 24, 2004 - Polio has spread to new countries in Africa, further setting back global attempts to wipe out the disease, UN officials said Tuesday.
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Fears that the Indian Ocean tsunami could unleash epidemics which would double the death toll are fading as access to clean water improves, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
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The World Health Organization said on Monday the Western Pacific region could be at risk from a major outbreak of dengue unless governments improve efforts and cooperation to stamp out the virus.
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Nearly 20 years ago, the World Health Organization and its partners launched an ambitious program to eradicate polio by the end of the millennium. That deadline passed and another was missed in 2005 &#151; and polio still strikes about 2,000 people a year, mostly children.
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More than 8 million Sudanese children  will be vaccinated against polio, health officials said on  Monday, following the country's first case of the disease in  more than two years.
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JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 7 -- Teams were to spread out across 23 countries in sub-Saharan Africa on Friday to begin what global health officials hope is the final push against the crippling polio virus, with the goal of vaccinating 80 million children, including those in northern Nigeria, where opposition had derailed the eradication effort.
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The U.N. health agency plans to vaccinate nearly 3 million children in the Horn of Africa this year against polio, a crippling disease that experts fear could spread rapidly along the region's volatile and porous borders.
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Respiratory and waterborne diseases could break out in areas affected by the tsunami disaster that hit southern Asia, a United Nations official warned Wednesday.