Human Viruses Cause Respiratory Outbreaks in Ivory Coast Chimps
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In the past decade, human viruses spread to chimpanzee populations in the Ivory Coast, causing outbreaks that were sometimes fatal.
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Polio has re-emerged in Guinea and Mali, countries that had previously freed themselves of the disease. The finding raises fears that a major polio epidemic could hit west and central Africa.
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Africa could soon face a major polio outbreak, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). For the first time in five years, Guinea and Mali have reported polio cases.
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Sep 28, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Thailand&#39;s avian influenza outbreak is drawing widespread international attention with the confirmation of two more human cases, one of which opens the possibility of human-to-human transmission.
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HONG KONG: Health authorities in Hong Kong are investigating the outbreak of a mysterious respiratory illness in a hospital that has infected 28 children.
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Sep 14, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Avian influenza and other diseases that originated in animals show that the World Health Organization (WHO) needs to pay more attention to animal health, the WHO&#39;s regional director for the Western Pacific said at an
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An outbreak of Ebola virus in northwestern Republic of Congo has killed 5,000 gorillas, helping to push the threatened species even closer to extinction, a study says.
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Cases of polio have been found in Mali and Guinea, bringing to 12 the number of African countries recently reinfected by an ongoing polio epidemic in Nigeria.
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Travellers to the Indian Ocean are being warned about an increased risk of the crippling Chikungunya virus.
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ASIA/INDIA - Villaggio cattolico di pescatori nel Kerala colpito dal virus chikungunya che ha causato 70 morti. Anche questo virus Ã¨ trasmesso dalla zanzara tigre Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Nelle ultime tre settimane lo stato settentrionale indiano del Kerala Ã¨ stato colpito da una epidemia di chikungunya, la Âmalattia dellÂuomo curvoÂ, simile alla dengue. \
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Bird flu may be the tip of the iceberg. Experts meeting in Mali say the deadly H5N1 virus is just one of a plethora of diseases threatening animals and people around the world as global warming, intensive farming, increased travel and trade help dangerous microbes breed and spread.
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Polio has reappeared in Guinea and Mali five years after the crippling disease was eradicated in the two West African countries and health experts said on Tuesday there was still a very real threat of a major epidemic spreading across the African continent
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Researchers reported for the first time last week that they have found the virus in a nonprimate species â bats.
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Twenty-five years after the first AIDS cases emerged, scientists have confirmed that the HIV virus plaguing humans really did originate in wild chimpanzees, in a corner of Cameroon.
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UN medical experts say 22 people have died from an outbreak of Hepatitis E in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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Sotto accusa cuoco: avrebbe propagato virus tramite il cibo
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An outbreak of avian influenza in a family in Thailand has raised fears that the virus might have been transferred directly between humans.