Congo confirms deadly Ebola outbreak
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The World Health Organization issued an alert Tuesday urging more doctors to travel to Congo to combat an outbreak of Ebola fever, which kills nearly all of those it infects and has no cure or treatment.
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At least 30 civilians were killed in a  massacre in eastern Congo believed to have been a reprisal for  the killing of three renegade soldiers by a pro-government  militia, the United Nations said Friday.
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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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A Belgian unmanned surveillance  aircraft being used by an EU force crashed on Tuesday in the  Congolese capital, Kinshasa, killing one woman and injuring two  other people, the spokesman for the European force said.
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An anthrax outbreak has killed 194 hippos in western Uganda, wildlife officials said Tuesday, and scientists are struggling to develop a way to quickly diagnose and contain the disease.
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BUKAVU, Congo  - Rival factions of Congo's army battled in the eastern region of the vast country Saturday, killing several people, a top military official said.
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Few diseases inspire as much panic as an outbreak of Ebola fever.
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Vietnam said two children who died of  bird flu this month had tested positive for the H5N1 strain,  bringing to three the number of fatalities from the latest  outbreak of a virus that killed 24 people across Asia earlier  this year.
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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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Four Nigerians are suspected to have died from H5N1 bird flu, but tests on three of the victims were inconclusive and the virus was confirmed scientifically in only one case, a senior health official said on Wednesday.
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A female gorilla and its infant, part of a group attacked by gunmen, are dead, say conservationists in DR Congo.
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Tests have confirmed an outbreak of foot and mouth disease at a third farm this month, the environment ministry 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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U.N. investigators have found a mass  grave in an army camp in Congo's eastern Ituri district  containing around 30 bodies, including women and children, who  appeared to have been executed, a spokesman said on Friday.
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An outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Sudan has spread, killing 84 people out of 228 known cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.
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The continued spread of the Ebola virus could wipe out the species, researchers are reporting today.
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The EU confirms a new outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in Hungary.