Yellow fever crisis hits Paraguay
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Thousands of Paraguayans queue for vaccines against yellow fever, after a rare outbreak of the disease.
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With swarms of locusts threatening crops in a number of African countries, a U.N. agency appealed for an additional &#36;70 million in assistance Thursday to prevent the upsurge from becoming a full-scale plague.
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The bird flu epidemic spreads  to half of Bangladesh, in what officials say is a major blow to the poultry industry.
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AMERICA - DallÂinizio del 2007 sono state contagiate dalla dengue 77.000 persone in tutta lÂAmerica Latina; stato di emergenza in Paraguay BogotÃ¡ (Agencia Fides) - In seguito ad una allarmante epidemia di dengue che dallÂinizio dellÂanno ha contagiato almeno 77.000 persone in America latina, il Governo del Paraguay ha dichiarato lo stato di emergenza nazionale per 60 giorni. La misura p...
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The start of the rainy season in Angola   is spurring new fears over a cholera outbreak which has claimed   at least 2,200 lives in the southern African country since   February, health officials said on Wednesday.
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Clashes between landless farmworkers and Paraguayan security forces left a police officer dead and 20 other people injured in a resurgence of violence that has rattled Paraguay's government.
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ASUNCION, Paraguay  - Riot police clashed on Tuesday with relatives of some of the 350 people killed in a 2004 fire in a Paraguayan supermarket, hours after judges found three men guilty of the lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter in the case.
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BUENOS AIRES, March 7 -- Recent heavy rains in South America have killed dozens of people, wiped out thousands of homes and triggered outbreaks of dengue fever in several countries.
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More than 50 people including 40 children have contracted typhoid fever in southwestern Tajikistan and have been hospitalized, a health ministry official reported.
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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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India's federal government will supply emergency equipment to southern areas hit by a rare, mosquito-borne fever that has killed at least 81 people in the past month, the health minister said Friday.
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Outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases in northern and southern India left ordinarily overburdened hospitals and clinics swamped with patients Wednesday, and officials said at least 87 people had succumbed to the infections.
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More than 550 people have fallen victim to a cholera epidemic so far this year in Lubumbashi, capital of Congo's mineral-rich Katanga province, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Friday.
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More than 200 children and adults have fallen ill with a mystery virus in central Puerto Rico, forcing officials to close down a local school, officials said Friday.
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Pakistan is urging provincial authorities to obey health guidelines to stop any bird flu outbreaks after fears lapses in poultry culling methods led to eight people being infected with the H5N1 virus.
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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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where public health systems, already weak, are now overwhelmed. &quot;There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable