Polio cases found in Guinea and Mali
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NEW YORK Polio has spread to two more African countries that had been freed of the crippling disease and threatens to become a major epidemic across west and central Africa, the World Health Organization said.
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AFRICA/SENEGAL - Scheda del Paese Roma (Agenzia Fides)- Paese dellÂAfrica occidentale che si affaccia sullÂOceano Atlantico, il Senegal ha unÂestensione di 200mila km2. Confina a sud con Gambia, Guinea Bissau e Guinea Conakry, ad est con il Mali e a nord-est con la Mauritania. Al cen...
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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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loods have ravaged African nations including Ghana and Togo in the west, along with Sudan, Uganda, Somalia and Kenya in the central and eastern regions. At least 200 people have died and hundreds of thousands are displaced
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Global health officials say war-torn Sudan is one of three sub-Saharan African countries reporting new cases of polio. The new polio virus is believed to the same strain registered in a major outbreak in northern Nigeria.
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GENEVA -- The UN health agency yesterday sought to ease fears of a major polio outbreak in Saudi Arabia fueled by Islamic pilgrims from African nations that are still in the grip of the disease.
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Benin, the home of ritual Voodoo sacrifice, became the latest in a string of West African states to report cases of H5N1 bird flu after laboratory tests confirmed the deadly virus on two poultry farms.
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KANO, Nigeria  - Political leaders and health  workers launched a drive Saturday to immunize more than 80  million children against polio in 23 African nations and fight  back against a resurgence of the crippling disease.
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JOHANNESBURG -- Health workers across west and central Africa began a 23-country polio immunization campaign yesterday to reach more than 80 million children in the next several days. The undertaking is part of an international effort to eradicate the disease by next year.
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The polio virus remains a threat in Niger, with 18 new cases so far this year, but many parents are deeply suspicious of the UN's drive to immunise children, according to a World Health Organisation report.
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The United Nations launched a massive polio immunization campaign across Africa on Friday, aiming to undo the region-wide effects of a vaccine boycott in Nigeria.
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A major polio epidemic in West and Central Africa is inevitable in coming months, but the disease could be eradicated worldwide next year by mass immunisations, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
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The polio eradication campaign has made remarkable strides in Nigeria. But a recent outbreak  -  caused by the vaccine itself  -  threatens to derail it
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JOHANNESBURG -- The global effort to eradicate polio will not meet its deadline to stop transmission of the virus by the end of the year, a World Health Organization official acknowledged yesterday, citing the spread of cases from northern Nigeria.
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Africa could be on the verge of a major polio outbreak, the World Health Organization warns.
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The crippling Polio disease has spread to at least one dozen countries in West and Central Africa and is threatening to become an epidemic, the United Nations has said.
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Nigeria's president kicked off a mammoth effort to immunize 80 million children against polio in 23 African countries, described by international health experts as "the single-largest public health campaign" in history to wipe out the disease.