Sri Lanka confirms Chikungunya viral fever epidemic
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Sri Lanka has confirmed an epidemic of the mosquito-borne Chikungunya viral fever, a top health official said on Saturday. Doctors suspect it has infected 5,000 people in the island's far north.
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The number of people infected with dengue in Singapore in a single week has risen to the year's highest level, the government said, amid a surge in the number of dengue infections across Southeast Asia.
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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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SRI Lanka is banking on 2,000 Indian medical workers and planeloads of other foreign relief to help it stave off disease from thousands of decomposing bodies in the wake of Sunday&#39;s devastating tsunami.
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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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Japanese health officials confirm their first case of variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease.
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Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has said that the government can no longer ignore the spate of killings by the Tamil Tiger rebels, a presidential statement available here on Thursday.
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New York (VNA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said an outbreak of disease could crop up in the wake of the Dec. 26 Tsunami, killing as many people as lost their lives in the initial disaster.
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A small region in northern Italy is  battling what may be Europe&#39;s first epidemic of the crippling,  mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus, a senior official at the  Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) told Reuters.
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Nearly 400 people are known to have died from encephalitis this year in Uttar Pradesh, Indian officials say.
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The Thai government on Monday announced that a woman has been confirmed of bird flu infection, a second patient of the epidemic since the second wave of avian influenza hit the kingdoms three months ago.
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A health alert is declared in Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia after an outbreak of dengue fever.
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The climate that made south Asia a winter attraction for thousands of tourists is now a major factor in spreading disease in the wake of the earthquake and tidal waves that have killed more than 70,000 people, according to the latest reports.
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Malaysia has detected a new outbreak of bird flu in a village in north-east Kelantan state, the sixth to be hit by the deadly virus in a month, officials announced today.
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Health authorities in Sri Lanka have revealed that eight people recently died from a virus which showed symptoms similar to bird flu.
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The World Health Organization said on  Saturday it was investigating &quot;an outbreak of an unknown  illness with a high mortality rate&quot; in the Democratic Republic  of the Congo.
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India's federal government will supply emergency equipment to southern areas hit by a rare, mosquito-borne fever that has killed at least 81 people in the past month, the health minister said Friday.