Ebola 'kills over 5,000 gorillas'
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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 World Health Organisation has estimated that at least 70,000 people have died in the camps, most because of poor conditions. The number does not include those killed in militia and government attacks on villages and fleeing refugees.
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Lack of access to clean drinking water and proper sanitation kills 1.5 million children every year, Unicef says.
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HIV/AIDS is the biggest single   killer of new mothers in South Africa, the Health Department   said on Tuesday in a grim new statistic of the pandemic's toll   on the country.
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Conservationists on Thursday announced the birth of a rare mountain gorilla in eastern Congo, where rebels have been accused of killing and eating the endangered animals.
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War, disease and malnutrition are  killing 45,000 Congolese every month in a conflict-driven  humanitarian crisis that has claimed 5.4 million victims in  nearly a decade, a survey released on Tuesday said.
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War, disease and malnutrition are killing 45,000 Congolese every month in a conflict-driven humanitarian crisis that has claimed 5.4 million victims in nearly a decade, a survey released on Tuesday said.
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A western lowland gorilla her keeper described as benevolent died Tuesday at the Brookfield Zoo from complications of kidney failure.
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Up to 10,000 people, many of them children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of violence in Darfur camps, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.
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Sixty-one children are now known to have been infected with the AIDS virus in southern Kazakhstan as a result of medical negligence, the health ministry said. Five of them have died.
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More than 160 people have died in a deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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DAKAR, Senegal -- 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, according to an International Rescue Committee study that estimates the toll.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The death toll in Sunday&#39;s Indian Ocean tsunami disaster neared 120,000 as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan spoke of &quot;an unprecedented global catastrophe&quot; which called for &quot;an unprecedented global response&quot;.
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A rare protected mountain gorilla has been found shot dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo&#39;s Virunga nature reserve, fuelling fears that rebels are targeting endangered species, conservationists said Sunday.
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The lethal Ebola virus has resurfaced in central Congo, U.N. officials said, and health experts were rushing supplies and doctors into the remote area to contain the disease.
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UN humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland says sexual abuse in the DR Congo has become "a cancer".
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Five thousand children die every day  globally because they do not have access to clean toilets,  health experts said on Tuesday.