Health experts rush to tackle Congo Ebola outbreak
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Health workers launched an emergency operation on Wednesday to fight an outbreak of deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever in southern Congo, airlifting supplies, setting up isolation tents and disinfecting contaminated areas.
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South African officials said the   spread of highly drug resistant tuberculosis to a Johannesburg   hospital was a "wake-up call" to intensify work on defenses   against the possibility of a deadly outbreak.
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Issues of privacy  -  and bureaucracy  -  have hampered health officials trying to avert an outbreak of the disease
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A deadly epidemic feared to be pneumonic   plague has broken out in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo,   the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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MEXICO CITY -- African countries are facing a health crisis because they lack enough medical personnel to attend to the sick, a top international health official told a summit of government ministers and researchers Thursday.
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About 60 experts meeting at the Geneva-based World Health Organization have agreed on a strategy to try to prevent and contain a global influenza outbreak that they say could kill millions of people.
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The government called an emergency meeting of health officials to try to control an outbreak that has left 14 dead.
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The World Health Organization (news - web sites) (WHO) on Thursday pressed drug makers to accelerate work on a vaccine against a dreaded influenza pandemic which could kill millions of people.
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JOHANNESBURG, June 22 -- Global health officials on Friday called for a quadrupling of spending to combat highly lethal, drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis spreading through Eastern Europe, Africa and parts of Asia.
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JOHANNESBURG - International medical personnel and supplies are being airlifted to a remote region of central Democratic Republic of Congo to combat what threatens to become the world's most serious outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in years.
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AFRICA/CONGO - Un laboratorio mobile per facilitare lÂidentificazione dei casi di ebola in Congo Ginevra (Agenzia Fides) - Sono cinque i casi di ebola finora confermati nella regione del Kasai Occidentale, ad ovest della Repubblica Democratica del Congo, e altri quaranta sono in attesa di risultati.  LÂOrganizzazione Mondiale della SanitÃ  (OMS)...
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HANOI, Vietnam -- The worst outbreak of dengue fever in years has hit Southeast Asia, prompting the World Health Organization to call for better prevention campaigns as experts question whether global warming is partly to blame.
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DESPITE an exciting new development this week in the race to find cheaper and more effective malaria drugs, a group of scientists is urging health authorities to consider screening travellers from malaria-infested areas to prevent the spread of drug
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Scientists say a type of fruit bat could be the source of a deadly outbreak of Marburg disease in Africa.
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Turkey is battling the largest recorded outbreak of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, which has killed at least 20 people this year, and experts said Tuesday more cases of the Ebola-like disease are inevitable in coming months.
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11/1/04- With growing worries about the possibility of a global flu pandemic, the World Health Organization has announced plans to hold a summit to draft emergency response plans.
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International health experts called on  Tuesday for rapid worldwide access to new cervical cancer  vaccines that have the potential to save a quarter of a million  lives a year.