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Congo-Brazzaville: Interview du Dr Jean Vivien Mombouli, conseiller technique au minist?re de la sant? et de la population [interview] Fortement menac?e par la propagation du virus de la grippe aviaire ? cause de sa d?pendance alimentaire, la R?publique du Congo vient de faire analyser dans des laboratoires sud africains, des ?chantillons de pr?l?vements r?alis?s sur les oiseaux trouv?s morts sur son territoire. Les r?sultats de ces ...

PanAfrica: Circumcision Reduces HIV Infection Risk Says New Study Uncircumcised African men are at higher risk of HIV infection - because the inner surface of the foreskin contains cells that make it highly susceptible to infection.

Egypt: Last Human Bird Flu Case Recovers, Say Health Authorities The threat posed by the potentially deadly H5N1 avian virus continues to exist in Egypt, according to the health ministry, despite the fact that the last human case has now fully recovered.

Congo-Brazzaville: Interview With DR Jean Vivien Mombouli On Threat of Avian Flu [interview] Threatened by the spread of the avian flu virus, the Republic of Congo sent samples of its dead birds to South African laboratories for testing. The tests registered negative. However, Dr Jean Viven Mombouli, the technical adviser to the Ministry of Health and Population Ministry, who is also the director of research in the Public Health National Laboratory, told IRIN on Sunday that samples were ..

Nigeria: Health Minister Launches New Anti-Malaria Policy Regional Head, (West Africa), Novartis Pharma Services, Mr. Jerry Ogbonna has advocated for reduction in the prices of Artemisinin Combination Therapy (ACTs) just as Minister of Health, Prof. Eyitayo Lambo announced that the 2.5 million doses of Coartem (Artemether + Lumefantrine) brand of ACTs procured by Federal government as first line treatment for malaria have been distributed to 18 states in ...

Nigeria: 5 Die in Meningitis Outbreak An outbreak of Cerebra Spinal Meningitis (CSM) has been reported in Sabon-Birni Local Government of Sokoto State, killing five people.

Liberia: 'Chloroquine is No Use for Malaria Cure' - Dr. Jones The Director of the Malaria Control Division at the Health Ministry, Dr. Joel Jones has warned that both the chloroquine injection and tablet are drugs that no longer must be used for curing one of the nation's common diseases, malaria.

Zimbabwe: Malaria Claims 125 in Four Months MALARIA claimed 125 lives in Matabeleland North Province between January and April this year, acting provincial medical director for Matabeleland North Dr Kulkarni Radhar has said.

Gambia: CRD Vets On Avian Flu Alert Program The Divisional Vet Officer of the Central River Division, CRD, Abdoulie Manjang has been talking to live-stock breeders in the division on the Avian Flu Mr. Manjang said that the flu can only be transferred to humans by coming to physical contact with infected birds. He said it was important that all suspected cases observed be reported to the nearest vet immediately.

Uganda: Uganda to Study Bird Flu UGANDA intends to carry out research on measures for the prevention and mitigation of the threat of bird flu, officials have said.

 

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Uganda: Health Launches Malaria Web Page PEOPLE seeking information about malaria in the country need not move long distances anymore. They can now access it via their computer keyboards.

Angola: Luanda Authorities Intensify Fight Against Cholera Luanda's Provincial Government will meet Thursday with various local entities to prepare a massive campaign of garbage removal, that aims to fight the cholera outbreak that has already claimed 184 lives, since its emergence last February, Angop has learnt.

Angola: Cholera Kills First Person in Kuito A teenager died of cholera on Monday at Bi? central Hospital out two cases registered as said in Kuito today the Head of Department of Public Health and Control of Endemic Diseases, Jos? Augusto Gon?alves.

Angola: Kwanza-Sul: 14 Suspect Cases of Cholera Fourteen suspect cases of cholera have been recorded over the latest few days in Sumbe district, central Kwanza-Sul province, without casualties, Angop learned.

C?te d'Ivoire: Suspicion de grippe aviaire : la C?te d'Ivoire attend les r?sultats de Padoue Deux foyers d'influenza aviaire hautement pathog?ne ont ?t? signal?s le 25 avril dernier dans le District d'Abidjan, pr?cis?ment dans les communes de Marcory (Anoumabo) et Treichville.

C?te d'Ivoire: Lutte contre le paludisme et la polio : Le Japon offre deux milliards de mat?riels sanitaires Une collaboration efficace. Le partenariat entre l'ambassade du Japon et le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l'enfance (UNCEF) va permettre ? 326 mille familles (dont les femmes enceintes et les enfants ?g?s de 5 ans) de b?n?ficier gratuitement de moustiquaires impr?gn?es d'insecticides de longue r?manence. La remise de ce don a eu lieu le jeudi ...

Ile Maurice: Chikungunya prendre plus de pr?cautions Pr?venir. Jean Yves Morau, professeur de sciences au coll?ge Redley de la R?union, insiste sur ce point lors d'un ?change sur la lutte contre le chikungunya et le SIDA entre son coll?ge, les coll?giens des six coll?ges de l'?le et les agents de sant? mercredi dernier dans le hall du coll?ge de Mar?chal.

Angola: Le chol?ra fait trois morts ces derni?res 24 heures ? Luanda Trois personnes sont mortes de chol?ra durant les derni?res 24 heures, dans un total de 482 nouveaux cas de la maladie enregistr?s, ? Luanda, a appris mardi l'ANGOP de source sanitaire.

 

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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>ABIDJAN, 5 May 2006 (IRIN) - Health and government officials in Cote d'Ivoire have announced a range of measures to stamp out bird flu after the discovery of at least three outbreaks in the main city Abidjan.

Minister of Animal Production and Fish Resources, Alphonse Douaty, said on Friday that veterinarians are to cull all poultry in markets through the city as the government prepares a system for reimbursement.

"We want to have a sanitary vacuum at these markets," Douaty said.

The ministry was also planning to inspect industrial poultry farms and issue a stamp of approval to reassure costumers. The city?s four million people will be able to call a free hotline.

Douaty said the government needed at least 6 billion CFA, or 11 million dollars, to compensate poultry farmers and combat the disease.

The first cases of bird flu were reported on 26 April by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), but the Ivorian government issued official confirmation just this week.

The latest of the three outbreaks was found in domestically kept chickens in the populous suburb of Yopougon, according to Daouda Coulibaly of the National Institute for Public Hygiene.

Coulibaly said several people in the area were being monitored for potential human infections of the H5N1 avian virus.



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Angola: Cholera Epidemic Claims More Lives Angola's cholera epidemic continues to worsen with the number of deaths countrywide topping 1,000, according to figures released by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Nigeria: Pfizer Used Kids As Guinea Pigs - Report A PANEL of Nigerian medical experts has concluded that Pfizer violated international law during a 1996 epidemic by testing an unapproved drug on children with brain infections.

Nigeria: Pfizer Used Kids As Guinea Pigs - Report A PANEL of Nigerian medical experts has concluded that Pfizer violated international law during a 1996 epidemic by testing an unapproved drug on children with brain infections.

Nigeria: US Congress Wades Into Kano Pfizer Deaths The administration of unapproved drugs on children with brain infections by Pfizer Inc Nigeria in Kano in 1996 has attracted the attention of the United States Congress.

Egypt: Human Bird-Flu Deaths Prevalent Among Breeders, Says Health Ministry Human deaths caused by the potentially pathogenic avian virus H5N1 have resulted mostly from exposure to infected fowl kept domestically, according to a health ministry statement issued following a meeting of the Supreme National Committee to Combat Bird Flu.

Zimbabwe: Diseases Wreak Havoc At Hopley Settlement COMMUNICABLE diseases, mainly TB and cholera are rife at the Hopley farm settlement in Harare where the government dumped victims of "Operation Murambatsvina" last year.

Angola: Rubbish Removal Campaign to Fight Cholera The Government of Luanda province will every Saturdays and Sundays 5 morning carry out cleanliness campaigns of removal of main rubbish sites, in order to improve the environment and avoid the proliferation of the cholera outbreak, which hits the capital city.

C?te d'Ivoire: Lutte contre la grippe aviaire : le gouvernement a promis indemniser les ?leveurs Le gouvernement ivoirien a promis indemniser les propri?taires des volailles qui seront abattus dans le cadre de la politique de "vide sanitaire".

C?te d'Ivoire: Grippe aviaire: L'abattage des animaux a d?marr? Une semaine apr?s le communiqu? de l'Organisation mondiale de la sant? animale (OIE) qui a annonc?, le mercredi 26 avril, la d?couverte de deux foyers de grippe aviaire hautement pathog?ne dans un ?levage dans le district d'Abidjan, les autorit?s ivoiriennes ont d?cid? de lutter contre l'?pizootie.

Congo-Kinshasa: La diarrh?e d?clar?e pr?s de Bunia Une diarrh?e accompagn?e de vomissement s'est d?clar?e non loin de Bunia, dans la province Orientale.Virakpa est une localit? situ?e ? 26 kilom?tres au nord de Bunia. Quatre personnes sont d?j? mortes de cette maladie depuis dimanche dernier.

C?te d'Ivoire: Lutte contre la grippe aviaire : Douaty cherche 6 milliards En plus d'un vide sanitaire des march?s, l'Etat lance un appel de fonds pour lutter contre l'?pizootie.

Angola: Le chol?ra tue 25 personnes par jour Les autorit?s sanitaires n'ont pas pu contenir l'?pid?mie de chol?ra qui se propage ? travers l'Angola, un pays consid?r? comme ayant le plus grand potentiel pour la richesse et la croissance ?conomique en Afrique.

Angola: Le chol?ra tue 25 personnes par jour Les autorit?s sanitaires n'ont pas pu contenir l'?pid?mie de chol?ra qui se propage ? travers l'Angola, un pays consid?r? comme ayant le plus grand potentiel pour la richesse et la croissance ?conomique en Afrique.

C?te d'Ivoire: Grippe aviaire : un plan d'indemnisation de 6 milliards En plus d'un vide sanitaire des march?s, l'Etat lance un appel de fonds pour lutter contre l'?pizootie. Le ministre Alphonse Douati de la Production animale et des Ressources halieutiques, affiche de la s?r?nit?.

C?te d'Ivoire: Grippe aviaire : Abidjan atteint La suspicion de grippe aviaire en C?te d'Ivoire s'est transform?e en une r?alit?. La C?te d'Ivoire est frapp?e. Les r?sultats des analyses que le minist?re de la Production animale et des Ressources halieutiques attendait de Padoue (Italie), sont arriv?s hier et ont confirm? la terrible nouvelle.

C?te d'Ivoire: L'Etat pr?conise l'abattage syst?matique des volailles sur les march?s d'Abidjan Le minist?re de la Sant? et les autorit?s de la C?te d'Ivoire ont annonc? une s?rie de mesures visant ? ?radiquer l'?pizootie de grippe aviaire, apr?s la d?couverte d'au moins trois foyers du virus pathog?ne H5N1 dans Abidjan, la capitale ?conomique.

 

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PanAfrica: Six African Countries Affected By Bird Flu The outbreak of the Avian Influenza Epidemic has been described as a global concern especially as six countries in Africa have now been affected.

Cameroon: North West : U.N. Press Club Members updated on Bird Flu It is public that the North West province is free since the first reports of the highly infectious and highly contagious zoonotic viral disease called avian influenza or "bird flu" . U.N. Press club members in the province got it from a veterinarian , Dr. Agharih Walters who doubles as the Provincial Delegate of Livestock that "as at 28 April,

PanAfrica: UN Calls for All-Out War Against Bird Flu The UN has called on nations and organisations to combine forces in the fight against the spread of bird flu.

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Comores: Chikungunya : plus de 40 000 cas enregistr?s Les Mahorais se pr?parent ? une lutte de longue dur?e contre le moustique vecteur du chikungunya.

C?te d'Ivoire: Coco service rassure les consommateurs L'apparition de la grippe aviaire en C?te d'Ivoire peut constituer une menace irr?versible sur les acteurs du secteur si les consommateurs de poulets et de ses d?riv?s ne sont pas suffisamment inform?s sur le sujet. C'est ce ? quoi ob?it la visite guid?e ? l'intention de la presse, des associations de consommateurs, des clients ...

Cameroun: Epizootie : Un milliard Fcfa contre la grippe aviaire 984,2 milions Fcfa, c'est le montant de l'enveloppe dont a b?n?fici? le Cameroun de la part du Fonds europ?en de d?veloppement (Fed) dans le cadre de son programme panafricain de contr?le des ?pizooties (Pace). La signature de la convention a eu lieu hier ? l'h?tel Hilton ? Yaound?, entre Aboubakary Sarki, le ministre de ...

Burkina Faso: Lutte contre la grippe aviaire : Les oiseaux migrateurs dans la ligne de mire Un atelier d'initiation des agents forestiers aux techniques d'identification, de d?nombrement et de suivi des oiseaux sauvages a d?but? le 10 mai 2006 ? Ouagadougou au parc urbain Bangr-W?ogo. Cette formation entre dans le cadre des mesures de pr?caution contre la grippe aviaire.

C?te d'Ivoire: Grippe aviaire - Abattage de volailles : le calvaire des vendeurs de poulets Il est 9 h 05 minutes, ce mardi 9 mai 2006. Nous sommes au march? du complexe, ? Adjam?. Assis sur des caisses ? volailles vides, regards tourn?s vers un horizon qui semble incertain , Nabazo Goud? et ses camarades vendeurs de volailles ne cessent de s'interroger ? Qu'allons-nous faire ? ?.

C?te d'Ivoire: Lutte contre la grippe aviaire : l'OMS offre du mat?riel et des m?dicaments Le Dr Komla Siamevi, repr?sentant de l'OMS en C?te d'Ivoire, au nom de l'Organisation, a remis mercredi dernier, un lot de mat?riels de protection et des m?dicaments (Tamiflu) contre la grippe aviaire.


Angola: DR Congo and Angola Have 70 Percent of Sleeping Sickness Cases Seventy percent of the 60 million cases of sleeping sickness registered in Africa are in Angola and in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), informed on Tuesday the Health Deputy Minister, Jos? Van-D?nem.

Nigeria: FG Approves Policy On Integrated Disease Surveillance And Response, Others The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on May 10 approved a new "National policy on integrated disease surveillance and response aimed at reducing mortality and morbidity among Nigerians."

Nigeria: Meningitis, Malaria Kill 10 in Bauchi Ten people have reportedly lost their lives while many are bedridden in the hospital following an outbreak of malaria and cerebral spinal meningitis in Bauchi state, secretary-general of the Red Cross Society in the state, Alhaji Adamu Abubakar, has said.

Nigeria: 25 Unclaimed Corpses Lie in Lokoja Hospital A mass burial of unclaimed corpses is planned to create space in the mortuary of Lokoja Hospital.

 

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Angola: A Third of Angola's Cholera Victims Are Children Under 5 - Unicef Faced with one of the highest child mortality rates in the world even in the best of times, Angola is struggling to contain the impact of the current cholera outbreak on children, with 35 per cent of victims there under the age of five, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), which is rushing aid to the country in response.

Djibouti: First Human Case of Avian Flu Health authorities in Djibouti have reported the first human case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain.

Kenya: Aflatoxin Claims 20 Lives Five Ukambani Members of Parliament yesterday urged the Government to order a probe on the source of the killer maize that has so far claimed over 20 lives in the region.

Angola: Angola, DRC Determined to Eliminate Sleeping Sickness Until 2015 Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo are determined to adopt common strategies to fight sleeping disease on the two countries' border, and eliminating it until 2015, a recommendation from the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2005.

Nigeria: Pfizer's Deadly Experiment [editorial] There is a sense in the argument that Nigeria is the preferred dumping ground of the world especially the advanced economies which

Cameroon: Bird Flu Alarm Never Affected My Sales - Poultry Farmer In the wake of the recent scare of poultry and its products, and the attendant low prices witnessed, Michael Koussiga Avit, a teacher of Animal Husbandry in College Bullier Saa in the Yaounde environs, who doubles as a farmer, has intimated that the bird flu alarm never affected his sales.

Madagascar: Param?dicaux : un infirmier pour 6400 personnes En tout et pour tout, il y a 3369 infirmi?res et infirmiers dans tout Madagascar, soit un infirmier pour 6400 personnes. C'est nettement en de?? de l'effectif suffisant. Et pourtant, au vu du nombre de candidatures dans les ?coles d'infirmiers, ce ne sont pas les vocations qui manquent.

Angola: L'?pid?mie de chol?ra sous contr?le ? Malanje L'?pid?mie de chol?ra qui s?vit dans la province de Malanje (nord) depuis mars dernier est d?j? sous contr?le contrairement aux deux premi?res semaines du d?but de la pathologie, a annonc? le porte-parole de la commission provinciale de pr?vention et contr?le de chol?ra, Andr? Ribeiro.

Comores: Chikungunya : plus de 40 000 cas enregistr?s Les Mahorais se pr?parent ? une lutte de longue dur?e contre le moustique vecteur du chikungunya.

 

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Angola: Government Reinforces Cholera Preventing Measures Angolan Government is reinforcing measures to prevent a new cholera outbreak in the country, once the one prevailing in 14 of the 18 provinces comes under full control.

PanAfrica: US$110 Million for the Development of Water Resources And Reduction of Water-Related Diseases [press release] The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved three International Development Association (IDA) credits* and one grant in the amount of US$110 million to support the development of water resources in the four riparian countries of the Senegal River Basin (Guinea, Mali, Mauritania and Senegal).

Ghana: Bird Flu Scare Devastates Poultry Industry THE GHANA National Association of Poultry Farmers has expressed worry at Ghanaians' reaction to the consumption of poultry products as a result of reports of the outbreak of bird flu in neighbouring countries, which has impacted negatively on the industry's production.

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Ghana: Crises Managers Wanted! [editorial] For the last couple of years the labour front has been very turbulent. The turbulence arises from the general economic situation that has made it unable for the country to support the demands of essential service providers like doctors and teachers.

South Africa: Health Experts to Discuss Traditional Medicines Health experts from eight countries are to meet in Johannesburg tomorrow to discuss the inclusion of traditional medicines in the National Health Act.
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South Africa: Workshop to Address Depression in Home-Based Care Workers Nearly 90 percent of home-based care givers in Mpumalanga and Limpopo suffer from depression.

Botswana: Nyangabgwe Goes Shopping for Doctors Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital Superintendent Dr Jafta Masunge has said they face a serious shortage of doctors and they have embarked on a recruitment drive in Bangladesh and India to alleviate the situation. He told Mmegi that the hospital has been without an Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) specialist for five years and they refer patients to Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone. But on the positive ...

Gambia: Gambia Ready to Combat Malaria Malaria Control Programme (nmcp), has said government has procured 350,000 KO tabs And 54,000 insecticides treated bed nets to be distributed country wide in early July.

Botswana: It is Winter Again Sagacity must have been foremost in the mind of the Tswana forefathers who aptly called the month of June 'Seetebosigo' meaning do not visit at night.
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Ethiopia: Bureau Urges Public to Prevent Communicable Diseases The Afar State Health Bureau urged the public to exert efforts with a view to preventing communicable diseases caused due to hygienic problems.
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Angola: Uije Records 56 Cases of TB in Two Months At least 56 cases of tuberculosis were recorded by the health authorities in the northern Uije Province in the last two months, which represents a decrease of 46 cases compared to the previous period, Angop learnt this Thursday.

Zambia: More Resources Needed to Counter Avian Flu Zambia has repeatedly said it lacks the technical expertise, personnel and funds to tackle a possible outbreak of H5N1 bird flu, but recent donations will help to remedy this situation.

Pan Afrique: Grippe aviaire : la FAO prend les choses en main Le r?le des oiseaux sauvages dans la diffusion du virus H5N1 a fait l'objet d'une conf?rence internationale ? Rome.
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Ile Maurice: S?curit? dans les h?pitaux : Les infirmiers se joignent ? la grogne des m?decins Il avait ?t? d?cid? dans le pass? que deux policiers seraient post?s aux Urgences 24 heures sur 24.

Ile Maurice: Chikungunya : Le point ? la r?union Malgr? tout, ce sont 262 000 personnes qui ont ?t? infect?es par le moustique depuis le d?but de l'?pid?mie.

 

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The department of Animal Health and Production yesterday announced that there is an outbreak of avian influenza (H5N2) in ostriches in Western Cape province of South Africa.

The disease is still limited to a single ostrich farm, which is under quarantine. As a result, Botswana has prohibited with immediate effect the importation of all poultry eggs and unprocessed poultry products from South Africa until further notice. An official at the animal health and production said that other departments have been given a statement on the importation ban. Information has reached the districts and regions at all borders. Customs officials are on alert and will work hand in hand with the department officials to clear animal products. According to BuaNews, the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute in South Africa has identified the virus as an H5N2 strain that is not related to the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain that has caused large scale poultry mortalities in the Far East, Europe and Northern Africa. The strain is reportedly similar to the one that South Africa eradicated from ostriches in 2004/2005. The virus did not cross over to chickens. Last year March, the European Commission suspended imports of live ostriches and their eggs, meat and products and pet birds after strains of influenza H5N2 were found in South Africa. The second outbreak was found in the eastern Cape and after extensive surveillance the ban was lifted. According to WHO, Avian influenza refers to a large group of different influenza viruses that primarily affect birds. On rare occasions, these bird viruses can infect other species, including pigs and humans.

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7/7/2006 4:52:24 PM (GMT +2)
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Avian influenza still expanding in Africa

Disease widely checked but could pose threat for years

While avian influenza has been successfully checked in Western Europe and much of Southeast Asia apart from Indonesia, it is still expanding in Africa and will remain a threat for years to come, FAO Deputy Director-General David Harcharik told a high-level meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in Geneva today.

?In the majority of cases, wherever HPAI [highly pathogenic avian influenza] has made its appearance we, the global community and the countries concerned have been able to stop it in its tracks,? Mr Harcharik said, speaking at an ECOSOC special event meeting on bird flu.

But ?HPAI poses a continuing threat and we must brace ourselves to go on fighting it, quite likely for years,? he warned. HPAI, he said, was still a source of concern in Indonesia and continued to spread in Africa, where it risked becoming endemic in several countries.

Mr Harcharik cited difficulties in enforcing appropriate control measures such as culling, farmer compensation and checks on animal movements in African countries. Another complication was illegal trade in poultry.

?Until such trade is effectively checked by stronger official veterinary authorities, and until better surveillance, alert-response, diagnostics and reporting is achieved, the risk will remain with us,? Mr Harcharik said.

Continuing threat

Mr Harcharik stressed it was imperative to act quickly and decisively to stop HPAI wherever it appeared because so long as the H5N1 virus causing HPAI stayed in circulation it would remain a threat to the international community.

H5N1 had not so far mutated into a form transmittable from one human being to another. But should it do so, the result could be a pandemic of vast proportions, he said.

In the two and half years of the present avian influenza emergency, some 200 million poultry have been culled, causing losses of 10 billion dollars in Southeast Asia alone. At last count in early July there had been 229 human cases of H5N1 infection resulting in the deaths of 131 persons.

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Millions of rands worth of water fowl culled

August 25, 2006, 19:15

"Millions of rands worth of water fowl belonging to Hilko Insel, South Africa's largest fowl breeder, are being culled by the department of agriculture at Bon Accord, north of Pretoria.

The department says there is a possibility that the fowl, including ducks, geese and swans, carry a strain of the bird flu virus. The results of tests carried out at Onderstepoort to determine this, have not been made public.


The Pretoria High Court has ordered that the culling of Insel's birds and those on a farm in Rustenburg, should go ahead. Insel says he is shocked by the decision."

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AFRICA: HOSPITALS TO FIGHT POSSIBLE BIRD FLU OUTBREAK
August 24, 2006 (IOL.co.za)

Hospitals in several major cities are implementing stringent infection control measures to counter a possible bird flu pandemic despite the government's assurances that South Africa is not yet home to the deadly H5N1 virus.

Nursing sisters in most of the country's private hospitals have embarked on an intensive educational campaign, while certain wards in many healthcare facilities have been earmarked as areas where bird flu victims could be treated.

Contingency plans being implemented by healthcare giant Netcare include the purchase of special protective clothing for nursing staff dealing with potential patients, the stockpiling of drugs, and staff vaccination plans.

Although procedures may vary from hospital to hospital, it is understood that specifically trained nurses would work two-hour shifts in isolation wards under layers of protective gloves and gowns.

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C?te d'Ivoire: Hundreds Hospitalised After Breathing Toxic Fumes Hundreds of people have been admitted to hospital after breathing toxic fumes from poisonous waste dumped in residential areas of Cote d'Ivoire's main city, Abidjan.

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 width=520 border=0><TBODY><TR bgColor=#ffffff><TD class=headline align=left width=370>South Africa: Deadly TB Strain Stalks Kwazulu-Natal The deadly strain of tuberculosis (TB) discovered in HIV patients in KwaZulu-Natal's Royal Church of Scotland Hospital has also been found in a further 12 public hospitals in the province, suggesting the disease is present throughout the region.

</TD><TD width=10> </TD><!-- white space --><TD class=headline align=right width=140>Business Day </TD></TR><TR bgColor=#e8e8ff><TD class=headline align=left width=370>South Africa: United Nations Says Action Needed On Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Data analyzed jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that extreme cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) are on the rise, posing a "grave public health threat."

</TD><TD width=10> </TD><!-- white space --><TD class=headline align=right width=140>State Department </TD></TR><TR bgColor=#ffffff><TD class=headline align=left width=370>Angola: Plus de 300 mille enfants vaccin?s contre la poliomy?lite ? Sumbe Les autorit?s sanitaires de la province de Kwanza-sul, dans le centre c?tier angolais, comptent vacciner durant la prochaine campagne d'immunisation contre la poliomy?lite pr?vue du 22 au 24 septembre prochain, 310.389 petits, ?g?s de z?ro ? cinq ans.


<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 width=520 border=0><TBODY><TR bgColor=#ffffff><TD class=headline align=left width=370>C?te d'Ivoire: Les acteurs de la m?decine traditionnelle et conventionelle se concertent "Intensifier la collaboration entre la m?decine traditionnelle et la m?decine conventionnelle en mati?re de pr?vention du vih/sida", ainsi est libell? le th?me de la 4?me journ?e africaine de la m?decine traditionnelle qui a ouvert ses portes, r?cemment, ? Institut national de la sant? publique.

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