14 February 2008

Health alerts: Bird flu virus kills a person in Vietnam

Status: High risk. Vietnams Health Ministry confirmed death of a 40-year-old man from northern Hai Duong province on 13th February 2008.

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13 February 2008

Health alerts: Dengue cases reported in Singapore

Status: High risk. The diagnosis of more than 650 dengue cases in Singapore so far this year has prompted environmental officials to remind high alert in the local regions on 13th February 2008

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13 February 2008

Health alerts: Six people suffer from cholera infection in Uganda

Status: High risk. The Ministry of Health has confirmed that cholera has hit Kampala district again. Six patients have been admitted at the cholera isolation camp in Mulago Hospital.

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13 February 2008

Health alerts: Unknown form of plague disease kills 5 people in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Status: Medium risk. A deadly epidemic feared to be pneumonic plague has broken out in parts of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. An unknown disease similar to pneumonic plague has killed 5 persons since January 2008 in a locality of the Northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo [DRC], according to the Ministry of Health.

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13 February 2008

Health alerts: Meningococcemia infection reported India

Status: High risk. Six deaths and 43 cases of meningococcemia have been reported Delhi so far in 2008.

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13 February 2008

Health alerts: Indonesia confirmed a case of bird flu infection

Status: High risk. The Ministry of Health of Indonesia has announced a new case of human infection of H5N1 avian influenza.

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12 February 2008

Health alerts: Yellow Fever infection reported in Argentina

Status: Medium risk. The National Ministry of Health, Argentina, has advised preventive vaccination against yellow fever, for Misiones regions where several monkeys were killed due to the infection.

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11 February 2008

Health alerts:Outbreak of Meningitis infection reported in Central African Republic

Status: High risk. Up to one million people in the Central African Republic (CAR) are at a risk of being infected by meningitis epidemic which is spreading across the northwest regions of country.

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Central African Republic

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10 February 2008

Health alerts: Outbreak of Highly infectious disease reported in India

Status: High risk. Residents of Kuilong village under Tamei sub-division of Tamenglong district reported an outbreak of a highly infectious disease (something like malarial typhoid).

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India

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09 February 2008

Natural catastrophe: Four people were killed by floods in Indonesia

Four people have been killed and hundreds of people were forced to evacuate their homes due to severe floods in eastern Indonesia, an official said.

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