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| Apr.29 |
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 Doctors target meningitis outbreak| Nigeria: Doctors Without Borders has embarked on a massive vaccination campaign in Niger, Nigeria, and Chad to combat the outbreak | |
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| Mar.28 |
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 Meningitis epidemic strikes Nigeria, Niger| More than 200 people have died of meningitis in the past week alone in 76 areas of the two countries | |
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| Feb.6 |
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Poison in teething drug kills 84 children Nigeria: At least 84 children have died after ingesting My Pikin, teething medicine that contained a solvent typically found in antifreeze
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| Dec.18 |
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Poisoned medicine kills dozens of children| Nigeria: 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 |
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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 | |
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| Sep.15 |
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Disease alert in flood-hit Africa Severe flooding has wrecked hundreds of thousands of homes and left many people vulnerable to water-borne diseases
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| Jan.31 |
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 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 |
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Fears bird flu has spread to humans Nigeria: Nigerian health officials waited anxiously for test results on 2 children feared to be the first Africans infected
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| Feb.10 |
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UN urges Nigeria bird flu action Nigeria must step up its measures to prevent further spread of the deadly virus
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| Feb.9 |
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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
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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
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| Feb.8 |
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Deadly bird flu found| Nigeria: 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 |
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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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| Aug.24 |
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Fears of Africa polio epidemic The outbreak that originated in northern Nigeria is infecting new countries and threatens to become an epidemic
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| Jul.31 |
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Polio campaign restarted Nigeria: The state of Kano has resumed vaccinations after an 11-month ban that threatened efforts to eradicate the disease
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| Sep.9 |
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More U.S. marines contract Malaria Liberia: 10 more serving as part of the peacekeeping mission are showing signs of having contracted malaria
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| Jul.24 |
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 Water crisis in Monrovia Liberia: Supplies of safe drinking water have run out in most parts of the capital, increasing fears of cholera and other illnesses
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| Dec.15 |
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 WHO fears Ebola spread Gabon: An outbreak could spread to neighbouring countries. 11 suspected Ebola deaths have been confirmed
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| Dec.9 |
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WHO confirms Ebola outbreak Gabon: There are reports that 10 people had died of a mystery illness
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| Nov.23 |
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 Cholera strikes Nigeria: 100 people killed in northern Nigeria in a week
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| Apr.27 |
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African AIDS summit Nigeria: State leaders and U.N. Secretary-General pushed for massive fund-raising campaigns to fight the pandemic
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