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'Dual epidemic' threatens Africa  A rising number of infections with HIV and tuberculosis has created a co-epidemic spreading throughout sub-Saharan Africa Vaccine-linked polio hits Nigeria

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Group wraps 1,800-mile anti-malaria trip

June 2008 ... more > Top ^

Jun.3   South Africa
  The Roll Back Malaria expedition followed the river Zambezi through six countries in southern Africa

year 2007 Top ^

Nov.1   Central Africa
Oct.10   Nigeria
  Nigeria is fighting a rare outbreak of a form of polio. 69 children in the north have caught the disease from others who had already been immunised
Sep.15   West Africa Disease alert in flood-hit Africa  Severe flooding has wrecked hundreds of thousands of homes and left many people vulnerable to water-borne diseases Sep.11   Congo   WHO issues alert on Ebola  An outbreak of fever kills nearly all of those it infects and has no cure or treatment Millions face flood disease threat Apr.11   South Africa AIDS-hit S. Africa out of burial plots  Residents of ohannesburg, need to consider 'nontraditional' burials, including cremation Jan.31   Nigeria   Nigeria's first human death from bird flu  22-year old woman in Lagos had died and a family member had been infected

year 2006 Top ^

Dec.21   Mozambique Mozambique warned over AIDS crisis  IMF: AIDS is emerging as a major threat to economic development and the government must work harder Nov.2   Cameroon Cholera hits Cameroon  An outbreak has killed at least 28 people in Far North province neighboring Lake Chad Jun.16   South Africa Popular Zulu weatherman dies of AIDS  Jabu Sithole won the hearts of millions of viewers with his cheery 'Good luck!' sign-off Jun.14   Congo 100 plague deaths  World Health Organization: The suspected outbreak of pneumonic plague in the east of the DR of Congo May.17   Angola Worst cholera outbreak  An epidemic has now killed more than 1,200 people in the past three months. 35,000 people have fallen ill Apr.13   Egypt   Egypt reports 4th bird flu death  Samah Mandouh Abdel Ghaffar, 18, died in hospital in the delta province of Manoufiya Apr.8   Zimbabwe   Zimbabweans have 'shortest lives'  UN report: Life in Zimbabwe is shorter than anywhere else in the world Bird flu kills five Mar.18   Egypt   Death is bird flu, test says  World Health Organization: Initial testing indicated that an woman who died near Cairo was a victim of bird flu Milosevic autopsy points to heart attack Feb.17   Egypt   Bird flu cases confirmed in Egypt  Tests done on dead birds had confirmed an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain Feb.12   Nigeria Fears bird flu has spread to humans  Nigerian health officials waited anxiously for test results on 2 children feared to be the first Africans infected Feb.9   Nigeria More bird flu in Nigeria alarms WHO  The deadly H5N1 strain has been found at two farms in Kano state and one in adjoining Plateau state   Nigeria Nigeria plans huge bird flu cull  A large-scale cull is being planned at a farm where thousands of chickens have died from bird flu Feb.8   Nigeria Deadly bird flu found
  A highly pathogenic strain of the H5N1 virus has been found in poultry stocks, the first case of the disease in Africa
Three new bird flu cases Jan.1   Kenya Convicts give up lunch for famine relief

year 2005 Top ^

Apr.12   Angola 214 cases of Marburg reported
  World Health Organization: efforts to educate residents are appearing to be having an effect
Mar.3   Southern Africa UN: HIV 'set to infect 90m Africans'
  25 million Africans have HIV. Next two decades could see 89 million new cases

year 2003 Top ^

Nov.25   Southern Africa 1 in 5 adults living with HIV/AIDS  Political action to fight the virus is failing, according to a report First alert over SARS



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