Polio cases quadruple in Afghanistan
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The number of polio cases in Afghanistan has quadrupled this year, almost entirely in southern provinces shaken by the country's worst fighting in almost five years, officials said Saturday.
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JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 7 -- Teams were to spread out across 23 countries in sub-Saharan Africa on Friday to begin what global health officials hope is the final push against the crippling polio virus, with the goal of vaccinating 80 million children, including those in northern Nigeria, where opposition had derailed the eradication effort.
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Political leaders and health workers launched a drive Saturday to immunize more than 80 million children against polio in 23 African nations and fight back against a resurgence of the crippling disease.
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India's health minister calls a meeting of health officials from eight states which have registered new polio cases.
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Polio, which can paralyze small children, has become the latest threat to refugees already struggling with famine and disease in the camps of Darfur.
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The US army says more people than previously acknowledged have died in its custody in Afghanistan.
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India will wipe out polio in the next three years, the country's health minister said on Tuesday, despite a surge in cases this year that has raised concern abroad.
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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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LONDON -- Nearly 20 years ago, the World Health Organization and its partners launched an ambitious program to eradicate polio by the end of the millennium. That deadline passed and another was missed in 2005 _ and polio still strikes about 2,000 people a year, mostly children.
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The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has worsened in the last year and civilians are bearing the brunt of suicide attacks and aerial bombing raids, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Tuesday.
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Polio has spread to two more African countries where it had been eradicated, Guinea and Mali, highlighting the risk of a major outbreak across west and central Africa, international campaigners said on Tuesday.
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Polio, which can paralyse small children, has become the latest threat to refugees already struggling with famine and disease in the camps of Darfur.
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Almost three million people have been affected by norovirus so far this winter the latest figures suggest.
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An expectedly high number of U.S. soldiers injured in the Middle East and Afghanistan are testing positive for a rare, hard-to-treat blood infection in military hospitals, Army doctors reported on Thursday.
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Military officials said Monday that eight prisoner deaths in Afghanistan have been investigated since mid-2002, a higher number than previously reported.
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The U.N. health agency plans to vaccinate nearly 3 million children in the Horn of Africa this year against polio, a crippling disease that experts fear could spread rapidly along the region's volatile and porous borders.
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FAIZABAD, Afghanistan  - At least 21 people, most  of them children, have died from a contagious respiratory  illness in northeastern Afghanistan over the past two days, an  official said Tuesday.