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  • Adelaide farmer with Congo fever dies 25 Jul 2008 08:06 GMT
    ... THE Adelaide farmer and hunter diagnosed with Congo fever earlier this month, died at St George‘s ... died at St George‘s Hospital yesterday. Provincial health spokesman Sizwe Kupelo said the 39-year-old man, ... of haemorrhagic fevers that occur in South Africa. The viral disease is transmitted to humans by ...

  • Additional early vaccination may help reduce measles outbreaks 25 Jul 2008 07:36 GMT
    ... age as well as at the World Health Organization''s recommended routine vaccination at 9 months. ... earlier age. An outbreak of measles in Guinea-Bissau in Africa offered Professor Peter Aaby and colleagues a ...

  • Schneider Medical Center Asks For $32.4 Million 25 Jul 2008 07:32 GMT
    ... recoup money owed to it by the Health and Justice departments, which either occupy or ... and adults from the territory is visiting Rwanda, a small country in the heart of Africa, to help children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Source ...

  • Additional early vaccination may reduce measles outbreaks 25 Jul 2008 07:31 GMT
    ... age as well as at the World Health Organization's recommended routine vaccination at 9 months, ... an earlier age. A measles outbreak in Guinea-Bissau in Africa offered Professor Peter Aaby and colleagues a ...

  • EC hunter dies from fever after tick bite 25 Jul 2008 06:56 GMT
    ... Cape died yesterday after being diagnosed with Crimea-Congo haemorrhagic fever, the Health Department said. Spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said the ... of haemorrhagic fevers that occur in South Africa. According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, ...

  • Vaccine boycott spreads polio 25 Jul 2008 06:34 GMT
    ... polio eradication campaign, cited dozens of recent cases in Ghana, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad and Cameroon. On Sunday, Nigeria sent a team of 12 scientists, government officials and Muslim leaders ...

  • Military still 'not keen' on employing HIV-positive people  25 Jul 2008 05:50 GMT
    ... along with two others, took the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to court in May, ... was deployed to the Democratic Republic of Congo about a month after the court judgment. ... unit was also preparing to deploy to Burundi next month but he has still had no ...

  • Dallas-based MediSend International Hosts Commencement Ceremonies for Twelve African Students Gradua 25 Jul 2008 05:13 GMT
    ... the ExxonMobil Foundation as part of ExxonMobil's Africa Health Initiative. Baylor Health Care System provided professional ... The Dikembe Motumbo Foundation is sponsoring two Congolese students from its new hospital in Kinshassa ... campus from developing countries including India, Equatorial Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Liberia ...

  • Feeble defence of a visionless party 25 Jul 2008 05:08 GMT
    ... to raise their standard of living in health and housing; in food and water; in ... century; the National Congress of British West Africa in the early 1920s, the Gold Coast Youth ... in West Africa, from Maurentania to the Cameroons. But with housing the Gold Coast seems ...

  • Brown presses bishops over development 25 Jul 2008 00:44 GMT
    ... also called for a "green revolution for Africa", involving a review of agricultural protectionism to ... was optimistic that technological developments and new medicines a solution to the Aids crisis would ... 100 Conservatives including 10 MPs arrive in Rwanda for the second year of their social ...


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