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Bird flu continues spread across South Africa

Bird flu has continued to spread in South Africa as more cases of the outbreak were recorded in six of the nine provinces, authorities...

admin - September 10, 2017

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UN: Cholera outbreak threatens 1.4m Nigerians in refugee camps

At least 1.4 million people uprooted by Boko Haram’s insurgency in northeast Nigeria are living in “cholera hotspot”’, prey to an outbreak of the...

admin - September 7, 2017

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Thailand aims to be rabies-free by 2020

Professor Dr Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol of Thailand is championing efforts to make her country rabies-free by 2020, in line with the...

admin - September 5, 2017

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Europe commits to staying malaria-free

The World Health Organisation (WHO) European Region has marked what seems like an important step on the road from malaria control to malaria elimination,...

admin - September 4, 2017

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Five die as cholera rocks IDP camp in Borno

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and other partners are reportedly moving swiftly to help local health authorities contain a cholera outbreak in a camp...

admin - August 31, 2017

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Good nutrition described as key to breaking poverty cycle

Eradicating malnutrition could increase wages by between 5% and 50% and is a sure way of breaking an inter-generational cycle of poverty in Nigeria,...

admin - August 28, 2017

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Nigeria ill-prepared to control Lassa virus, says virologist

A professor of Virology, Oyewale Tomori, has said that the recent outbreak of Lassa fever at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) simply shows the...

admin - August 26, 2017

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Government asked to to beam searchlight on BATN engagements

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has called on the federal government to beam its searchlight on British America Tobacco Nigeria...

admin - August 24, 2017

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