680 die in Ethiopia cholera outbreak
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More than 680 people have died in a suspected cholera outbreak in Ethiopia that has also affected neighboring countries, officials said Wednesday.
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At least 124,000 people have been confirmed dead in the Asian tsunami disaster as the effort to deliver relief supplies to the millions affected by the giant wave gathers pace.
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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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At least 72 people have died of cholera and other intestinal diseases brought on by floods that have ravaged central Mozambique since the beginning of January, medical staff said Tuesday.
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Severe diarrhea has killed nearly 200 people in Ethiopia and another 19,000 have fallen ill since April, according to the United Nations.
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Jakarta (VNA) - A total of 59,189 people are reported to have been killed by the earthquake and tsunamis that struck Indonesia&#39;s Sumatra Island and several other Asian and African countries on Sunday, governmental and medical sources reported.
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Disease could kill as many people in the stricken Indian Ocean region as died in the weekend tsunami, a top World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday.
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loods have ravaged African nations including Ghana and Togo in the west, along with Sudan, Uganda, Somalia and Kenya in the central and eastern regions. At least 200 people have died and hundreds of thousands are displaced
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Ethiopia's disaster response agency has appealed for 7.6 million dollars (5.8 million euros) to help hundreds of thousands of flood-affected people in the country's southeastern Somali state.
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An outbreak of water and food-borne disease called acute gastroenteritis stormed all 45 towns of Pangasinan on July 22. Department of Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit reported that the
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More than 1,500 people have cholera in Iraq and the outbreak has spread from the north to Baghdad, where conditions are ripe for the disease to thrive, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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A blast ripped through a crowd in  Ethiopia&#39;s volatile Somali region on Monday, killing at least  five people and setting off a stampede that saw up to six more  die, according to witnesses and aid-workers.
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Ethiopia has launched an emergency  polio immunization campaign, fearing an outbreak of the highly  infectious disease in neighboring Sudan could spread, the  Health Ministry said on Friday.
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A diarrhoea outbreak has hit Zimbabwe's capital Harare following weeks of uncollected garbage, sewer blockages and erratic water supplies, the state-owned The Herald daily reported on Friday.
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KANO, Nigeria  - A major outbreak of cholera in  northern Nigeria has killed 42 people and hospitalized hundreds  in the last two weeks, authorities said on Wednesday.
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At least 20 Zimbabwean children have died over the past two weeks after an outbreak of diarrhoea hit the southern town of Kadoma, reports said Friday.
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Vietnam plans to vaccinate 400,000 children in the capital against cholera, and officials warned Wednesday that cases of acute diarrhoea could flare up again after an outbreak sickened thousands last year.