Congo Confirms Deadly Illness Outbreak as Ebola
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Lab results have confirmed a deadly illness outbreak in southeastern Congo as Ebola fever, officials said Monday.
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Uganda has had 119 cases of a new strain of Ebola fever that has killed 35 people, the east African country's Health Ministry said on Friday.
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Few diseases inspire as much panic as an outbreak of Ebola fever.
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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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More than 680 people have died in a suspected cholera outbreak in Ethiopia that has also affected neighboring countries, officials said Wednesday.
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The continued spread of the Ebola virus could wipe out the species, researchers are reporting today.
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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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The deadly Ebola virus may have killed more than 5,000 gorillas in central Africa, a study finds.
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MONTREAL (CP) - City health officials knew about the deadly C. difficile outbreak at least five months before the provincial Health Department was informed, according to a broadcast report.
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A new diagnostic tool called a gene chip can tell with a single test if a patient has malaria, Ebola, influenza or a bacterial infection, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Eight more cases of Ebola have been identified in Congo, raising to 17 the number of people confirmed to have contracted the deadly illness, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
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An outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Sudan has spread, killing 84 people out of 228 known cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.
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The World Health Organisation confirmed that it was examining a &quot;probable&quot; first full case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in Thailand, raising fears of a deadly global flu pandemic.
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Another nine cases of the deadly Ebola virus are confirmed in DR Congo, where 174 have already died.
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The government has confirmed that five people have died because of yellow fever in Brazil, including a Spanish citizen, but the president of Latin America's largest nation insisted that the outbreak is under control.
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Benin, the home of ritual Voodoo sacrifice, became the latest in a string of West African states to report cases of H5N1 bird flu after laboratory tests confirmed the deadly virus on two poultry farms.
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MALAYSIA announced today its second outbreak of deadly bird flu in three weeks, near a northern village close to the border with Thailand where the disease was first detected.