Chad: Hepatitis E Breaks Out As More Refugees Threaten to Cross Border
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The deadly viral infection Hepatitis E has broken out among refugees from Sudan&#39;s Darfur region at two camps in eastern Chad and may have passed into the local community, aid workers said on Friday.
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Chad's prime minister demanded Monday that the international community remove refugees who have fled to Chad from Sudan's Darfur region.
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Some 12,000 people from Sudan's Darfur region have crossed the border into neighbouring Chad after heavy bombardments and armed attacks by Sudanese forces and the Janjaweed militia, the UN refugee agency said on Sunday.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 17 (IPS) - The European Union is preparing to launch a  peacekeeping mission in eastern Chad as a response to attacks on  civilians from militia crossing the country's border with  Sudan.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 7 -- Tens of thousands of Chadians who fled fighting last weekend remained hunkered down in a Cameroonian border town Thursday, as the United Nations and aid groups raced to head off mass hunger or an outbreak of disease among the refugees, humanitarian officials said.
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The U.S. Army has carried out a promising early test of the first vaccine against hepatitis E, a form of the liver-attacking disease that sickens many Asians and can spread to soldiers or other Western visitors to the region.
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N'DJAMENA, Chad, Oct. 27 -- Seven crew members of a plane contracted to fly more than 100 children out of Chad were detained, authorities said Saturday, and Chad's president promised punishment for anyone involved in a plan to spirit the children to Europe.
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Vietnam may face fresh outbreaks of the  deadly H5N1 bird flu virus next month as poultry is transported  around the country ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations in  February, the World Health Organization said.
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Tens of thousands more refugees might flee Sudan's Darfur region into neighboring Chad because of persistent attacks and rapes by Arab militias, the United Nations said Friday.
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Sudanese cross-border raiders have massacred more than 100 villagers in Chad, Human Rights Watch alleged Thursday, expressing concern Darfur&#039;s violence was spreading.
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N'DJAMENA  - The U.N. refugee agency is moving several hundred Sudanese refugees in Chad away from the border to avoid an increased risk of violence in the Darfur region and from local rebels, a spokesman said on Friday.
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GENEINA, Sudan -- Armed militia surged into a western border area where some Darfur refugees attempted to return to their raided village, UN security officials said yesterday, raising further concern about how quickly 1.4 million displaced Sudanese could return home safely.
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An experimental vaccine can prevent more than 95 percent of infections with hepatitis E but its makers said on Wednesday they need to find a way to make it cheaply available in the poor countries that need it most.
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El-GENEINA, Sudan  - Sudan condemned a threat by neighboring Chad on Tuesday to expel around 250,000 Darfuri refugees who have fled to Chad's eastern deserts because of a five-year conflict in Sudan's west.
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Some 30,000 Sudanese, victims of fresh  attacks by Arab militia inside Darfur, have threatened to cross  into Chad, the U.N. refugee agency warned on Friday.
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As a result of a serious flu vaccine shortage, large numbers of Americans have been crossing the border into Canada to get their flu jab.
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KELOWNA - As many as 2,400 people from around the world might have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus through an infected worker at a popular Kelowna restaurant, health officials said Wednesday.