Polio fears grow in north India
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India's health minister calls a meeting of health officials from eight states which have registered new polio cases.
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Africa could soon face a major polio outbreak, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). For the first time in five years, Guinea and Mali have reported polio cases.
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Outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases in northern and southern India left ordinarily overburdened hospitals and clinics swamped with patients Wednesday, and officials said at least 87 people had succumbed to the infections.
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The bird flu epidemic spreads further in the Indian state of West Bengal with 13 of 19 districts affected, officials say.
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Health officials fear diseases could break out within days, with thousands of people in makeshift camps with poor sanitation.
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India will wipe out polio in the next three years, the country's health minister said on Tuesday, despite a surge in cases this year that has raised concern abroad.
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Six more children have died of encephalitis in northern India, pushing the toll from an outbreak that erupted in late June to 151.
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India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the last three Asian countries where polio is endemic, are on track to halt its spread by year-end after halving cases in 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
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The number of new polio cases in  Nigeria jumped by 36 percent to 1,111 last year but sustained  immunization should help cut incidence of the disease in 2007,  a World Health Organization official said on Monday.
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Nearly 400 people are known to have died from encephalitis this year in Uttar Pradesh, Indian officials say.
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Vaccination could eradicate India's persistent polio problem, health experts say.
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More than 700,000 health workers fanned out across Bangladesh on Saturday to immunise 24 million children against polio after the disease made a surprise comeback last year, an official said.
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People holidaying in exotic places without being vaccinated is fuelling a rise in dangerous diseases like typhoid, warn doctors.
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Ethiopia has launched an emergency  polio immunization campaign, fearing an outbreak of the highly  infectious disease in neighboring Sudan could spread, the  Health Ministry said on Friday.
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Indian health authorities have found at least 278 blood donors to be HIV-positive in the northeast state of Tripura, fueling fears of infected blood supplies.
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Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia will   vaccinate nearly 3 million children against polio in a bid to   stamp out the paralyzing disease, which has re-emerged in the   Horn of Africa, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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The Independent Blood Council remains concerned that Australians could have contracted the &#39;monkey virus&#39; from polio vaccinations in the 1950s and 60s.