Outbreak of Ebola reported in Congo
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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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UN medical experts say 22 people have died from an outbreak of Hepatitis E in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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Villagers don't kiss anymore in a corner of Democratic Republic of Congo hit by the deadly and highly contagious Ebola virus.
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An outbreak of dengue fever across  northern India has touched Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's  family, with a son-in-law and two grandsons admitted to  hospital with symptoms of the disease, newspapers reported on  Thursday.
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Faulty drains, construction work, heavy rain and vehicle movements at an animal health facility where workers handled live viruses probably led to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in southern England, according to an official report Friday.
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Vietnam may face fresh outbreaks of the  deadly H5N1 bird flu virus next month as poultry is transported  around the country ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations in  February, the World Health Organization said.
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Eighty-two people have died in a cholera epidemic in the Republic of Congo, according to figures from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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United Nations officials said they did not know if Ebola was the cause of a mystery illness that has killed more than 100 people.
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Science & environment: A rare but highly infectious outbreak of Q fever being investigated after 28 people in Gloucestershire contract bug spread by livestock.
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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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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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Six years of continuing conflict in Congo have claimed 3.8 million lives, half of them children, with most killed by disease and famine in the still largely cutoff east, the International Rescue Committee said in a study Thursday.
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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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The threat of renewed war in the eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo increased yesterday amid unconfirmed reports by diplomats and a claim by a Congolese minister that
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NAIROBI, Oct. 23 -- A variety of armed groups, including the Congolese military, have routinely terrorized civilians across eastern Congo in the past year, with killings, massacres, rapes, abductions, looting and other brutalities perpetrated by all parties in the conflict, according to a report ...
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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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The mystery outbreak of illness at Caritas Medical Centre was caused by the parainfluenza virus, the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health confirmed Thursday.