8 more Ebola cases confirmed in Congo
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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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Over 1,000 Congolese civilians a day are dying, nearly all from disease and malnutrition, due to a festering conflict that has killed 3.8 million people, an aid agency said on Thursday.
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Cambodia detected new cases ofbird flu in a province near the capital, an official of the Agriculture Ministry confirmed on Wednesday.
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Scientists on Wednesday confirmed a fourth case of the livestock infection bluetongue, which has added to fears from a foot and mouth disease outbreak over the last two months.
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Over 1,000 Congolese civilians a day  are dying, nearly all from disease and malnutrition, due to a  festering conflict that has killed 3.8 million people, an aid  agency said on Thursday.
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GOMA, Congo  - Renegade soldiers have advanced in  eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, taking control of two  more villages during clashes with government troops, United  Nations officials said on Monday.
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Lab results have confirmed a deadly illness outbreak in southeastern Congo as Ebola fever, officials said Monday.
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More than 300 cases of extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) have been confirmed across South Africa, the national health department said Thursday.
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The number of suspected cholera cases in northern Iraq continues to rise, with 16,000 people now showing symptoms, the World Health Organization said Friday.
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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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More than 100 people have died in a remote part of Congo, including all those who attended the funerals of two village chiefs, in what health officials fear is an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has placed it troops on alert and is deploying soldiers to the east of the country, after reports that Rwandan troops have infiltrated the area.
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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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A health official in the Philippines said Monday a meningitis-like disease that killed eight people is not an outbreak, despite 18 new cases recorded in November.
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At least five people die from an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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The World Health Organization said on  Saturday it was investigating &quot;an outbreak of an unknown  illness with a high mortality rate&quot; in the Democratic Republic  of the Congo.
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Vietnam has detected seven confirmed and  possible bird flu infections in humans so far, but is concerned  about more cases cropping up among its scattered small farms, a  health ministry official said on Monday.