53 die from cholera in Republic of Congo
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At least 53 people have died of cholera since mid-November in the Republic of Congo, according to official figures released Sunday. Local officials said they believed the real toll was much higher.
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More than 160 people have died in a deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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More than 1,500 people have cholera in Iraq and the outbreak has spread from the north to Baghdad, where conditions are ripe for the disease to thrive, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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More than 100 people have died in a remote part of southeastern Congo in what health officials fear is an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever.
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DAKAR, Senegal -- Six years of continuing conflict in Congo have claimed 3.8 million lives, half of them children, with most killed by disease and famine in the still largely cutoff east, according to an International Rescue Committee study that estimates the toll.
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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 virus.
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A woman dies of cholera in Baghdad, officials say, the such first fatality there in the nation's recent outbreak.
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At least 72 people have died of cholera and other intestinal diseases brought on by floods that have ravaged central Mozambique since the beginning of January, medical staff said Tuesday.
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GENEVA - The World Health Organization says that since March, at least 70,000 people in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur province have died because of poor conditions in camps for internally displaced people.
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AFRICA/CONGO - Una epidemia di colera ha giÃ  contagiato oltre seimila persone, i morti finora sono 70 Ginevra (Agenzia Fides) - Almeno 70 persone sono morte nella Repubblica del Congo negli ultimi due mesi a causa di una epidemia di colera che ha colpito giÃ  5.555 persone. Secondo il Fondo delle Nazioni Unite per lÂInfanzia (Unicef), circa il 25 per...
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SULAIMANIYA, Iraq  - Health officials in northern Iraq are treating nearly 4,000 suspected cases of cholera and eight people have died so far, the health minister for Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region said on Wednesday.
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BHUBANESWAR, India  - A cholera outbreak has killed at least 119 people in eastern India since August, health officials said on Monday, but an aid agency said the death toll was more than double that figure.
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An outbreak of cholera has killed 48 people in Mozambique, the health ministry said on Wednesday, compounding humanitarian problems after floods hit the southern African country.
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More than 160 people have died in a deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Red Cross officials warned Thursday that 14 African countries could face one of the worst meningitis epidemics in recent memory and announced prevention campaigns in the affected areas.
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The World Health Organisation has estimated that at least 70,000 people have died in the camps, most because of poor conditions. The number does not include those killed in militia and government attacks on villages and fleeing refugees.
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Â· Nearly 200 drowned and 650,000 homes destroyed Â· UN appeals for aid as food sent to seven countries