Mali Says Locust Outbreak Subsides, Eases Food Fears
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Mali's government said on Saturday it could supply enough food for villagers who watched locusts devour their harvests and that the threat posed by the insects had largely subsided.
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An agricultural region in eastern Mauritania faces the loss of its entire crop to swarms of locusts unless action is taken immediately, a regional government official has warned.
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The spread of polio to Guinea and Mali brings to 12 the number of previously polio-free African countries that have experienced an outbreak.
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It seems an unlikely place for Mali's president to seek advice in times of crisis.
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The hospitality industry in Kasane said this week that the closure of some parts of Chobe National Park following an outbreak of anthrax in the park has not affected their industry.
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The restrictions on agricultural shows and animal gatherings are lifted after the foot-and-mouth outbreak.
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In an echo of the biblical plagues, millions of locusts swarmed into northern Egypt on Wednesday for the first time in 50 years, prompting authorities to order emergency pesticide spraying to protect the region's important agriculture industry.
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Swarms of desert locusts are moving across northwest Africa, threatening to devastate crops in an increasing number of countries, U.N. officials warned Friday.
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OMAHA, Neb. &#151; A week after ConAgra Foods Inc. recalled peanut butter from its Georgia plant after a salmonella outbreak, the Center for Disease Control confirmed the presence of the dangerous germ.
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ROME Sept. 17, 2004 - Swarms of desert locusts are moving across northwest Africa, threatening to devastate crops in an increasing number of countries, UN officials warned Friday.
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Health experts say no serious disease outbreaks have been seen after the tsunami, but warn it is too soon to say they will not occur.
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A humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur region, once called the world's worst, appears to have eased, with the death toll from disease dropping, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official said Tuesday.
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PENANG, Malaysia  - A Malaysian veterinarian and  her three children have received a clean bill of health after  tests for bird flu, leaving no suspected human cases of the  deadly virus after an outbreak among poultry, the government  said on Monday.
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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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Australian locust fighters are getting on top of one of the worst outbreaks of the insects in decades, knocking out infestations before they begin to swarm and so far protecting crops from major damage.
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RFID chips ease concern over the latest E. coli outbreak and prove the technology's potential.
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Fears that the Indian Ocean tsunami  could unleash epidemics which would double the death toll are  fading as access to clean water improves, the World Health  Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.