Hepatitis E suspected in Chad refugee camp deaths
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The hepatitis E virus is suspected to have been responsible for the deaths of over 70 people at refugee camps in Darfur and Chad since May, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday in a press release.
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Dec 30, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A 16-year-old girl in southern Vietnam is seriously ill with H5N1 avian influenza, according to reports from the World Health Organization (WHO) and news services today.
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Vietnam said initial tests showed a 14-month-old boy died from bird flu, but that it was unclear if the child was infected from the same H5N1 strain of the virus that killed 19 people in the country earlier this year.
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Vietnam said on Tuesday initial tests  showed a 14-month-old boy died from bird flu, but it was  unclear if the child was infected with the same H5N1 strain of  the virus that killed 19 people in the country earlier this  year.
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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.
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THERE have been three new deaths from bird flu in Vietnam, the World Health Organisation says, raising fears of a fresh outbreak of the disease in South East Asia.
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As many as 10,000 refugees from Sudan's Darfur region are dying from disease and violence every month in the teeming camps where they've taken refuge, U.N. health agency officials said Monday.
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Nigeria confirmed the first human death from the H5N1 virus in sub-Saharan Africa on Wednesday after tests on a dead woman showed she had contracted bird flu.
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Up to 10,000 people, many of them children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of violence in Darfur camps despite a big international aid effort, the World Health Organization said Monday.
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A virulent form of hepatitis that is especially lethal for pregnant women has broken out in two of Iraq's most troubled districts.
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Up to 10,000 people, many of them children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of violence in Darfur camps, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.
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The World Health Organization said on Saturday it was investigating "an outbreak of an unknown illness with a high mortality rate" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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An 18-year-old girl has died of bird flu  in southern Vietnam and the first confirmed human infection in  the country's north has raised concerns about possible  human-to-human transmission of the virus.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed five human bird flu cases in Vietnam, four of them fatal, the U.N. agency said in a statement.
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Nigeria's first human fatality from bird flu is confirmed as the H5N1 virus by the World Health Organisation.
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Hepatitis A is taking an epidemic form in Dhaka University, as one student died of the disease and some 530 were tested positive for the virus in the past few weeks.
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UN medical experts say 22 people have died from an outbreak of Hepatitis E in the Darfur region of Sudan.