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Kerala Ready to Invite WHO to Study Fever Outbreak

... the World Health Organisation (WHO) to study the outbreak of a mosquito borne fever in the state that has cl...t expert teams have arrived in the state since the outbreak of the fever, collected blood samples and given us reports, which have confirmed the fever as chikun...

Americas Preparations For Flu Outbreak Still Incomplete

...nt still has limited capacity to detect a disease outbreak and track its progress across the country. The go...at it will not close the borders if a pandemic flu outbreak occurs somewhere in the world. Says Dr. Rajeev Venkayya, special assistant to the president for biod...

Chilly Sauce Linked to Botulism, Forcing Recall in US

...y are being withdrawn in USA. This is the first outbreak of botulism from commercially canned foods in nearly four decades. Health officials asked consumers and stores to discard 10-ounce cans of some leading brands like Castleberry's, Kroger and Austex . Two Texas children and an Indiana couple were h...

Himachal Pradesh Under the Grip of Suspected Typhus Fever Outbreak

Fear of a possible outbreak of Typhus fever has gripped people in Himachal Pradesh. At least 200 villagers, including women and children, in Deol area of Baijnath sub-division in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra District are suffering from a mysterious fever. Epidemiologists are s...

Sierra Leone Contains Rabies Outbreak

A rabies outbreak which killed over 100 people last year in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown last year has been contained, health authorities said Friday. A senior health worker attributed the fall in rabies cases to a massive vaccination campaign carried out by ve...

Sierra Leone Contains Rabies Outbreak

A rabies outbreak which killed over 100 people last year in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown last year has been contained, health authorities said Friday . A senior health worker attributed the fall in rabies cases to a massive vaccination campaign carried out by vet...

Dengue Cases in Singapore Crosses Alarming Levels

...d. Singapore experienced its worst dengue fever outbreak in 2005 when 19 people died from the disease and more than 13,000 were infected. Dengue is normally associated with poorer tropical countries. The disease is manifested by a sudden onset of fever with severe headaches, muscle and joint pains, and ras...

Nigerian Village Quarantined After 20 Children Die of Measles

Nigerian health officials on Wednesday said an outbreak of measles in a village in the northern state of B...try told AFP. He said Jimkilo village, where the outbreak happened, had been quarantined to stem the spread of the disease "because people were fleeing the vi...

H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed at Czech Turkey Farm

...h officials confirmed Thursday the country's first outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain in poultry, at a turkey farm in the centre of the country. "It is confirmed, it is H5N1," the spokesman for the State Veterinary Administration, Zbynek Semerad, told AFP. Around 1,800 turkeys have already died at...

One Fifth of Timor Needs Food Assistance: UN Report

...ing drought, especially on the north coast, and an outbreak of locust infestations in the western regions. Production of maize, Timor's most important crop, declined by 30 per cent to 70,000 tonnes. Output of cereals, cassava and other tubers dropped by 25-30 per cent while rice production decreased by 20 p...

6,000 Turkeys Slaughtered at Czech Bird Flu Farm

...While Czech authorities remain optimistic that the outbreak will not hit poultry exports, Russia announced Thursday that steps to ban Czech birds, meat, eggs and equipment connected to the poultry industry would be taken within "two to three days". Czech Agriculture Minister Petr Gandalovic reacted to the th...

Bird Flu Found in Togo

...s. Neighbouring Ghana recorded Thursday its third outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in Aflao, a town on the border with Togo. Worldwide, the virus has killed 191 people out of 313 infected patients since reappearing in late 2003, according to a World Health Organisation toll dated June 15. Exp...

Egyptian Boy Has Bird Flu

...ase of the virus reported in Egypt since the first outbreak was announced in February 2006. The report said that he was being treated with Tamiflu, and that his condition was stable. A 10-year-old girl died of bird flu earlier in June, bringing to 15 the number of fatalities in Egypt. Egypt's geographical ...

Six Cases of H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed in Germany

...man cases of H5N1 avian flu could be related to an outbreak of the virus in the Czech Republic. H5N1 was found on a poultry farm in the central Czech Republic last week, prompting the slaughter of some 6,000 turkeys. Germany battled a bird flu epidemic last year. It broke out on the Baltic Sea island of Rue...

Bright Bodies Weight Program Lowers Diabetes Risk, BMI in Obese Kids

...can and Hispanic population. The childhood obesity outbreak has also boosted type- 2 diabetes among adolescents. Savoye-Desanti and colleagues measured the efficiency of the weight management program Bright Bodies, in contrast to care provided at a pediatric obesity clinic. Bright Bodies was created 10 yea...

India Records Substantial Decline in Polio Cases

...of western Uttar Pradesh, where the alarming polio outbreak occurred last year, have not had a single case of P-1 virus for the last six months - the longest period so far. 'Though the type 3 polio virus cases are up slightly, they remain restricted to the region. The poliovirus transmission has also been ...

Potentially Lethal H5N1 Bird Flu Resurfaces in Europe

...en without delay, with the aim of preventing a new outbreak of the virus," the website www.aktualne.cz quoted ... control," he told reporters in Rome. The German outbreak comes nearly a year after the last case was reported there in Dresden last August, killing a swan in...

Dengue Deaths Sweeping Cambodia Highlight Healthcare Failures

...ths of this year as during the whole of 2006 in an outbreak that is expected to worsen with an early monsoon. "In my village every house has been afflicted by dengue -- in some homes all the children are sick," says the children's mother, Chhiv Thy, as she wipes down the 13-year-old girl's body with wet tow...

WFP Announces Food Assistance Plan for Timor Leste

...y (FAO) found that drought conditions and a locust outbreak had caused a 30 percent decline in crop production on the island in the past year, leaving one fifth of the population vulnerable to food shortages through the coming "lean season". WFP estimates that the drought has resulted in an overall food sh...

Uttar Pradesh Struggles to Contain Japanese Encephalitis

...rt in newborn babies. India's worst encephalitis outbreak in 2005 claimed over 1500 lives. According to doctors, the death rate due to Japanese Encephalitis is 28-56 percent. The deadly Japanese Encephalitis fever is caused by a virus found in pigs and wild birds and transferred to humans by mosquito bi...

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