Major Ebola outbreak in Congo
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More than 160 people have died in a deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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TORONTO - Health authorities in Canada are trying to determine what measures need to be taken to ensure the safety of the country&#39;s blood supply after learning a little-understood primate virus can be transmitted through blood transfusion.
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KINSHASA, 20 December (IRIN) - With fresh battle fronts opening up and tens of thousands of civilians fleeing their homes, there has been mounting concern among international bodies that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is heading for a major war.
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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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afrol News, 20 December - The weekend has seen the resumption of heavy fighting between factions of the Congolese army in the province North Kivu in eastern Congo, close to the Rwandan border.
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Red Cross officials warned Thursday that 14 African countries could face one of the worst meningitis epidemics in recent memory and announced prevention campaigns in the affected areas.
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A cholera epidemic in Congo which has killed more than 80 people this year, claims its first victims in the capital.
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 18 -- International medical personnel and supplies are being airlifted to a remote region of central Congo to combat what threatens to become the world's most serious outbreak of the deadly ebola virus in years.
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An outbreak of Ebola virus in northwestern Republic of Congo has killed 5,000 gorillas, helping to push the threatened species even closer to extinction, a study says.
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Tourist boat rides will resume on Monday in a Ugandan national park hit by an anthrax outbreak that has killed about 180 hippos in the last three months, officials said.
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A cholera outbreak in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, has killed 40 people so far this month, a senior government health official told IRIN on Friday.
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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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World News &gt; Durban, Dec 6 : A major row in South Africa over profiling of blood donors according to race intensified today with the disclosure that blood donated by President Thabo Mbeki three years ago had been destroyed instead of being used.
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Recent outbreaks of ebola among people in Africa also killed thousands of gorillas, animals already threatened by hunting, a new study reports.
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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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KANO, Nigeria  - A major outbreak of cholera in  northern Nigeria has killed 42 people and hospitalized hundreds  in the last two weeks, authorities said on Wednesday.
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More than 100 people have died in a remote part of southeastern Congo in what health officials fear is an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever.