Polio Returns to Guinea, Mali, New Cases in Darfur
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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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Global health officials say war-torn Sudan is one of three sub-Saharan African countries reporting new cases of polio. The new polio virus is believed to the same strain registered in a major outbreak in northern Nigeria.
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Indian health officials said Monday they aim to vaccinate about 95 million children against polio this week as part of a drive to eradicate the disease, which made a comeback last year.
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loods have ravaged African nations including Ghana and Togo in the west, along with Sudan, Uganda, Somalia and Kenya in the central and eastern regions. At least 200 people have died and hundreds of thousands are displaced
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A deadly outbreak of hepatitis E in Sudan's Darfur region has spread rapidly, with the number of cases almost tripling in less than a month, the World Health Organization said.
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A week-long effort to immunise 300 million children in Africa and Asia against polio starts on Friday.
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Health ministers from the most seriously affected countries in Africa say they can stop polio's spread by the end of this year by intensifying efforts to immunize children.
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More than 8 million Sudanese children will be vaccinated against polio, health officials said on Monday, following the country's first case of the disease in more than two years.
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Nairobi - About 80 million children in 23 countries will start receiving vaccinations on Friday in the largest polio immunisation campaign ever in Africa, the World Health Organisation said.
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Political leaders and health workers launched a drive Saturday to immunise 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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afrol News, 17 September - The desert locust crisis in Mauritania, Senegal, Mali and Niger is &quot;expected to deteriorate over the next few weeks,&quot; and there was a serious risk that the Maghreb countries would be reinvaded by swarms from October onwards, FAO
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African Union-sponsored talks on the crisis in the western Sudanese region of Darfur have resumed in the Nigerian capital, attended by from the UN, the League of Arab States, the European Union and two main rebel groups.
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Nigeria has launched fresh efforts to stamp out polio as part of a campaign that aims to immunise more than 80 million children in 23 African states.
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JOHANNESBURG -- The global effort to eradicate polio will not meet its deadline to stop transmission of the virus by the end of the year, a World Health Organization official acknowledged yesterday, citing the spread of cases from northern Nigeria.
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The biggest polio eradication campaign ever launched in Africa kicked off simultaneously in 23 Sub-Saharan countries Friday, with the goal of immunizing 80 million children under five over the next four days, organizers said.
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The spread of polio to Guinea and Mali brings to 12 the number of previously polio-free African countries that have experienced an outbreak.
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GENEVA Aug. 24, 2004 - Polio has spread to new countries in Africa, further setting back global attempts to wipe out the disease, UN officials said Tuesday.