WHO urges South Africa to curb TB killer super-bug
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The World Health Organization   urged South Africa on Thursday to act quickly to stamp out a   highly-resistant (WHO) form of tuberculosis that has killed at   least 52 people and could spread fast.
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The World Health Organization urged political leaders in the Western Pacific region to step up efforts to stop the spread of the AIDS virus, saying the number of infections continues to grow.
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A new, deadly strain of tuberculosis has killed 52 of 53 people infected in the last year in South Africa, the World Health Organization said Friday, calling for improved measures to treat and diagnose the bacteria.
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Tests and medicines used to diagnose and combat tuberculosis (TB) in poor countries are outdated and ineffective and new treatments must be developed to fight the disease, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for more efforts and measures to protect people from blood contamination and shortage in response to the spread of HIV/AIDS and other blood-born diseases.
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SHANGHAI: The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of a global outbreak of avian influenza unless greater efforts are made to fight the disease in countries already affected
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The World Health Organization has unveiled a two-year plan to combat the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The spread of HIV and AIDS is fuelling a massive tuberculosis crisis that could see one billion people infected in the next two decades, the UN warned yesterday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan challenged world leaders Wednesday to face reality and understand that to stop the spread of AIDS, they must protect the people most vulnerable to virus.
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ISLAMABAD: Senatorâs questioned the governmentâs figures on AIDS/HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis A and B, claiming that the World Health Organisation (WHO) provided higher figures for the diseases.
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BANGKOK: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has criticised Thailand for not doing enough to monitor birds capable of carrying the deadly avian flu virus, the media reports, following the kingdom&#39;s ninth human death.
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ATLANTA, June 12 -- Health officials trying to stop a globetrotting honeymooner with a dangerous form of tuberculosis got little assistance from his lawyer father and his future father-in-law, a TB expert who not only balked at stopping the Greek wedding but attended the ceremony himself, accordi...
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Top officials of the World Health Organization yesterday criticized American health authorities' handling of the case of a 31-year-old Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis who defied official requests that he not take a long airplane flight.
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Bubonic plague has killed one person  and made another sick in China, the Health Ministry said,  appealing for efforts nationwide to prevent further outbreaks.
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PARIS -- The spread of a new, highly resistant form of tuberculosis that is ``virtually untreatable" is causing alarm among international health officials who say that it has now been identified in ``all regions of the world," according to the World Health Organization.
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GENEVA -- The World Health Organization yesterday urged governments to provide funds to drug makers developing vaccines against a feared influenza pandemic which could kill millions.
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People struck down by a stomach bug sweeping the country are urged by doctors not to go back to work for 48 hours.