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Poison in teething drug kills 84 children  At least 84 children have died after ingesting My Pikin, teething medicine that contained a solvent typically found in antifreeze Poisoned medicine kills dozens of children
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  Meningitis epidemic strikes Nigeria, Niger
  Doctors target meningitis outbreak

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Apr.29
  Doctors Without Borders has embarked on a massive vaccination campaign in Niger, Nigeria, and Chad to combat the outbreak
Mar.28
  More than 200 people have died of meningitis in the past week alone in 76 areas of the two countries
Feb.6

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Dec.18
  More than 30 children are thought to have died recently after taking the medicine. The factory's managing director had been charged

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Oct.10 Vaccine-linked polio hits 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
Jan.31   Nigeria's first human death from bird flu   22-year old woman in Lagos had died and a family member had been infected

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Feb.12   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.10   UN urges Nigeria bird flu action  Nigeria must step up its measures to prevent further spread of the deadly virus Feb.9   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 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 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

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Jan.12 World polio cases rose by a third in 2004   Switzerland: The number of cases rose by almost one-third after a vaccine boycott in Nigeria spawned a resurgence of the disease

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Jul.31 Polio campaign restarted  The state of Kano has resumed vaccinations after an 11-month ban that threatened efforts to eradicate the disease

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Nov.23   Cholera strikes  100 people killed in northern Nigeria in a week Apr.27 African AIDS summit  State leaders and U.N. Secretary-General pushed for massive fund-raising campaigns to fight the pandemic
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