Polio, Yellow Fever Persist
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After smallpox was nearly eliminated, health officials hoped to wipe out other diseases, but turns out human-specific smallpox was suited to elimination, and others not so. In Wired Science.
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West Nile fever is not simply a 3- to 6-day disease with limited symptoms, but rather a severe illness that can incapacitate people for a month or longer, findings from a new study indicate.
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GAYA, India -- Gearing up for the final push to wipe out polio, India has run into a hurdle in an eastern state, where poor, conservative communities are refusing to give polio drops to children because they distrust the medicine and its distributors.
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Outbreaks of polio in India and Africa are spreading rapidly, and experts warn that new infections could lead to an epidemic of international scale. (Part two of a three-part series on the resurgence of diseases once thought wiped out.)
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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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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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Polio has re-emerged in Guinea and Mali, countries that had previously freed themselves of the disease. The finding raises fears that a major polio epidemic could hit west and central Africa.
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Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia will   vaccinate nearly 3 million children against polio in a bid to   stamp out the paralyzing disease, which has re-emerged in the   Horn of Africa, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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A polio epidemic spreading from Nigeria  throughout West and Central Africa has begun to come under  control, but more funds are needed to wipe out the disease in  2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
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More than 8 million Sudanese children  will be vaccinated against polio, health officials said on  Monday, following the country's first case of the disease in  more than two years.
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JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 7 -- Teams were to spread out across 23 countries in sub-Saharan Africa on Friday to begin what global health officials hope is the final push against the crippling polio virus, with the goal of vaccinating 80 million children, including those in northern Nigeria, where opposition had derailed the eradication effort.
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Cases of polio have been found in Mali and Guinea, bringing to 12 the number of African countries recently reinfected by an ongoing polio epidemic in Nigeria.
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More than 8 million Sudanese children will be vaccinated against polio, health officials said on Monday, following the country's first case of the disease in more than two years.
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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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NEW YORK  - People who've visited tropical   areas -- particularly India and islands in the Indian Ocean --   and are suffering from fever and joint pain could have   chikungunya virus infection, public health officials warn.
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Polio eradication efforts get back on track in African nation after hostility to treatment reignited disease.
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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.