Ebola 'kills over 5,000 gorillas'
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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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Sixty-one children are now known to have been infected with the AIDS virus in southern Kazakhstan as a result of medical negligence, the health ministry said. Five of them have died.
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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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Apes, gazelles, crocodiles, dolphins, vultures and parakeets are all in danger as the global extinction crisis escalates.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The death toll in Sunday&#39;s Indian Ocean tsunami disaster neared 120,000 as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan spoke of &quot;an unprecedented global catastrophe&quot; which called for &quot;an unprecedented global response&quot;.
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A timeline of events in the case of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya for allegedly infecting more than 400 children with the virus that causes AIDS.
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The World Health Organisation has estimated that at least 70,000 people have died in the camps, most because of poor conditions. The number does not include those killed in militia and government attacks on villages and fleeing refugees.
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The relief organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres finds 'staggering' death rates in Uganda's camps.
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The global HIV epidemic is growing, leaving an estimated 39.5 million people worldwide infected with the deadly virus, the United Nations said Tuesday.
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An outbreak of anthrax has killed at least 1,500 wild game animals in nature preserves in southeastern Zimbabwe, a state-run newspaper reported Monday.
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From the lowland gorillas of Africa to corals of the Galapagos Islands, more than 16,300 species are threatened with extinction, the World Conservation Union said on Wednesday in its annual Red List.
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War, disease and malnutrition are killing 45,000 Congolese every month in a conflict-driven humanitarian crisis that has claimed 5.4 million victims in nearly a decade, a survey released on Tuesday said.
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The Red Cross warned Friday that a massive aid effort is needed to cope with floods in 18 countries across Africa that have already affected at least 1.5 million people and killed nearly 300.
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Anthrax has killed 18 hippos at a  Ugandan national park where nearly 200 of the animals died in  the worst mass wildlife deaths from disease three months ago, a  government official said on Saturday.
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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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Researchers called the situation in Darfur a "demographic catastrophe" on Friday after the first scientific study done in the region found high death rates both before and after the displacement of some 1.5 million people.
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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.