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    Africa: Bird Flu Virus is Changing - FAO And Oie Recommend Increased Surveillance According to a report in last week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the identification of a new H5N1 virus sublineage in poultry, this new virus sublineage, called Fujian virus, appears to have become the dominant strain of the H5N1 avian influenza circulating in parts of Asia. If the report is confirmed, this does not come as a surprise, FAO and the World Organisation for ...

    Ghana: Chief Executive of Cocobod Advises Farmers Against the Use of DDT
    Mr Isaac Osei, Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has advised cocoa farmers against spreading their farms with Gammalin 20 popularly known as DDT.

    Angola: Sleeping Sickness Threatens to Spread
    The sleeping sickness may spread to the whole Angolan territory, unless measures like elimination of tsetse fly focus and precocious diagnose of infected persons are immediately taken.

    Angola: Health Authorities Detect 64 New Cholera Cases
    Sixty four new cases of cholera were detected in the past 24 hours in the districts of Quipungo and Lubango, by health authorities of the southern Hu?la provine, informed this Tuesday the acting director of the Provincial Department of Public Health and Control of Endemic Diseases, F?lix Janu?rio.

    Angola: United Methodist Church Confronts Killer Diseases in Angola
    Sometimes malaria can kill a child before anyone even knows the child has been infected.

    Angola: Malaria, Poverty Kill Children [press release]
    At 3:50 p.m. on Sept. 25, 8-month-old Domingos Antonic died.

    Africa: 'Send a Net. Save a Life.' [press release]
    On November 14, 2006, the United Nations Foundation (UN Foundation) will launch Nothing But Nets?a grassroots campaign asking individuals to donate $10 to "send a net, save a life." Each $10 donation pays for an insecticide-treated bed net, distributes it to family in need in Africa, and provides education on its proper use to prevent malaria. Founding partners of the ...

    Ghana: Climate Change Will Affect Future Food Availability - FAO
    Climate change will directly affect future food availability and compound the difficulties of feeding the world's rapidly growing population, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said at the opening of a UN climate change conference in Nairobi on Monday.

    Nigeria: 'Over 3m Nigerians Infected With HIV/Aids'
    In Nigeria, over three million persons are infected with HIV/AIDS, while almost everyone is affected in one form or the other.

    Uganda: Vitamin A Fortified Potato to Combat Blindness
    UGANDANS can now combat malnutrition and blindness.

    Ghana: Tennis Star Joins UN-Backed Efforts in Ghana to Combat Malaria, the Main Child Killer
    On her first trip to Africa, world tennis star Serena Williams has urged all pregnant women and children in Ghana to protect themselves from malaria, the deadly disease that is the number one killer of children in the country, responsible for one quarter of all under-five deaths every year.

    Liberia: Diarrhea On The Increase In Greenville
    Reports from Greenville, the administrative headquarters of Sinoe County, speak of outbreak of chronic diarrhea, leaving dozen persons already victimized.

    Angola: Five Die of Cholera in Cunene Province
    Five people died of cholera, from the 87 cases registered in the districts of Kwanhama and Cuvelai, informed this Tuesday the provincial health director in the southern Cunene province, Eduardo Haiumba.

    Angola: Cholera Reappears With Rain
    Heavy rains and a continued lack of access to clean drinking water and basic sanitation in Angola has seen the number of people infected by cholera rise sharply in the last two weeks.

    Angola: Angola At 12th UN Climate Change Conference
    Angola is participating since Monday in the 12th United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, where a series of warnings that climate changes can be the most serious dangers currently faced by the humanity.

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    Uganda: New WHO Chief to Focus On Women Dr Margaret Chan was recently appointed the director-general elect of the World Health Organisation (WHO) by the World Health Assembly.

    [URL="http://allafrica.com/stories/200611140038.html"]Uganda: Measles High in Wakiso
    WAKISO has registered the highest number of measles cases, Entebbe municipality medical officer Dr. John Kalyesubula has said.

    [URL="http://allafrica.com/stories/200611130392.html"]Uganda: Mad Cow Ban Affecting Local Dairy Imports
    THE Chief Executive of FARM Africa, Dr Christie Peacock, has urged the government to lift a ban on livestock imports from Britain to enable farmers secure breeding stocks and boost the livestock industry in Uganda.

    [URL="http://allafrica.com/stories/200611131277.html"]Malawi: Chloroquine Works Again, But Scientists Urge Caution
    A study in Malawi suggests that chloroquine is once again effective against malaria, over a decade after it was withdrawn from use in the country due to parasite resistance to the drug.

    Zimbabwe: Fatal Blow for Aids Patients
    THE Global Fund to fight malaria, tuberculosis and HIV and Aids has rejected Zimbabwe's sixth round application for funding on undisclosed grounds.

    [URL="http://allafrica.com/stories/200611130082.html"]Tanzania: Cholera Outbreak Reported in Dar Es Salaam
    A cholera outbreak in Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, has killed five people and affected 820 others, mostly women and children, who have been hospitalised in the last few weeks, heath officials said on Monday.

    Central African Republic: A Country On the Brink of an Abyss
    More than one tenth of adults in the volatile Central African Republic (CAR) are living with HIV/AIDS, but foreign assistance has been hard to come by, leaving the country struggling to mount an effective response to the pandemic.

    Egypt: Winter May Bring More Bird Flu, Health Ministry Says
    With the onset of winter, there may be an increase in cases of the potentially lethal avian flu virus H5N1 among fowl and humans in Egypt, according to health ministry officials.

    Southern Africa: Malaria High On Agenda As SADC Ministers Gather
    A five-day annual Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) meeting of Ministers gets underway in Windhoek today.

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