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He is dangerous. He is dreaded. He kills you slowly like a serpent. The whole world is cautioning you by giving a “statutory warning” against him.
No more dramatizations. The character is controversial indeed. He is familiar to us as Mr....
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More than 12 million people in Burkino Faso will be the first to receive a new meningitis vaccine as part of an Africa-wide immunization plan, the World Health...
made popular Nov 29 2010
All of Nigeria is at risk in a cholera epidemic that has killed 352 people in only three-months time, health officials warned Wednesday, as the country’s rainy...
made popular Aug 26 2010
A measles outbreak has killed 197 people in Malawi since the start of this year, the highest number recorded in the country in the last decade, a senior health ministry...
made popular Aug 16 2010
Uganda and three other African countries- Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan have been declared free of Polio again. The countries, according to World Health Organisation (WHO)...
made popular Aug 2 2010
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that number of new cancer cases and deaths will double in the next two decades.
made popular Jun 9 2010
WHO has been criticized by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)in a report titled “The handling of the H1N1 pandemic: more transparency...
made popular Jun 7 2010
The health warning has been launched in the north-east Veneto region and features a drink unique to the area – the \”spritz\”, a mixture of white wine,...
made popular May 26 2010
Nigeria, seen as the key to wiping out polio in Africa, has made impressive gains against the disease in the year since religious leaders backed vaccination, the World...
made popular Mar 6 2010
Wolfgang Wodarg, Head of Health at the Council of Europe, considers that the A H1N1 scare was a “campaign of panic”, a “false pandemic”, “one of the great...
made popular Jan 14 2010
No I am not saying it,I do not have the expertise to even comment on medical matters but Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe has accused the makers...
made popular Jan 12 2010
Opening a parliamentary conference on maternal and newborn health in Kampala yesterday, President Yoweri Museveni said rampant drug theft in Uganda was partly...
made popular Nov 24 2009
Kenya is among the first countries in Africa where Swine flu was reported but the nation is now on high alert as the flu has hit once again and this time in high...
made popular Sep 25 2009
More than 100 people have died and over 5,000 have been infected in outbreaks of cholera, influenza and diarrhoea in remote parts of Papua New Guinea since last month,...
made popular Sep 14 2009
After nearly two decades of futile searching for a vaccine against the AIDS virus, researchers are reporting the tantalizing discovery of antibodies that can prevent...
made popular Sep 5 2009
The Gujarat government has shown to the world how to take care of the pregnant women in the rural and remote areas of the state. The programme, Chiranjeevi Yojana,...
made popular Jul 31 2009
In view of the swine-flu pandemic, which is spreading like wildfire in the world especially in the western countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has...
made popular Jul 30 2009
Calling all citizens young and old: Your country needs you and your children to be Swine Flu vaccine guinea pigs.
The race is on: The government and vaccine makers...
made popular Jul 23 2009
Though it may sound unbelievable, the World Health Organization (WHO)’s recommendation to introduce pneumococcal vaccine for preventing pneumonia in children in the...
made popular Jul 17 2009
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After the swine flu, now it is the turn of TB to hit the world health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that a global pandemic of drug-resistant...
made popular Jul 15 2009
A month ago today, the world turned upside down in Mexico. What was the cause? Swine Flu. The world was ending, everyone would die, and contagions lurked in every...
made popular May 26 2009
I thought long and hard over this one and I can safely say I thought Egypt was flipping out a little when it came to the reaction undertaken towards the whole swine flu...
made popular May 7 2009
The Plague was on her way to Baghdad when she came across an old man. He asked, “Where are you going”? The Plague answered, “To Baghdad to kill 10,000...
made popular May 4 2009
The global economic crisis is likely to cause an upsurge in suicides and mental illness as people struggle to cope with losing their homes or livelihoods, the World...
made popular Oct 11 2008
The beautiful valley of Swat, in the northern part of NWFP (Pakistan), is being plagued now a day by multiple problems. Subject to the trials of terrorism, now the...
made popular Oct 7 2008
The WHO said the Philippine government should regulate the continuous “sale” of kidneys and other organs for transplants, noting that the rise in inflation...
made popular Sep 29 2008
Beijing is battling public alarm and international dismay after close to 13,000 Chinese children crowded hospitals, ill from infant milk formula tainted with melamine,...
made popular Sep 25 2008
The latest official AIDS epidemic update report from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) is dated December...
made popular Sep 23 2008
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SRI LANKA-The World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling for greater social equality as a way of evening out differences in health, both...
made popular Aug 29 2008
Consider this number: 10 million. That’s how many cases of cancer are diagnosed worldwide each year. Now consider this number: 15 million. That’s how many...
made popular Jul 27 2008
Outbreaks of measles in developing countries may be reduced by vaccinating infants at 4.5 months of age as well as at the World Health Organization’s recommended...
made popular Jul 28 2008
Chewing tobacco and snuff are less dangerous than cigarettes but the smokeless products still raise the risk of oral cancer by 80 percent, the World Health...
made popular Jul 2 2008
This is not a matter to laugh at it simply is related with a modern world’s latest tragedy the May 12’s earthquake in Sichuan - China. According to the...
made popular Jun 20 2008
I would usually try to say something witty. Something clever or penetrating. This topic is just a little too serious for my usual intellectual flippancy.
I do not...
made popular Jun 4 2008
The World Health Organisation (WHO) in a press statement released on Friday urged nations to compel ban on all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, as the...
made popular May 31 2008
As the 61st annual World Health Assembly gathers in Geneva this week, a major issue that the world\’s governments are struggling with is patents on medicines, and...
made popular May 23 2008
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced the delta megacities in Asia like Manila and Calcutta in India are at high risk of coastal flooding due to the...
made popular Apr 9 2008
Injuries inflicted to women by violent male partners extends well beyond the short term, according to a 10-nation survey of domestic violence released on Friday.
The...
made popular Apr 4 2008
The World Health Organization lashed out at Israel on Tuesday for denying or delaying travel permits for critically-ill Gazans, saying the right to health appeared to...
made popular Apr 3 2008
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China’s Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization, WHO, speaks during a press briefing to announce new developments on the swine influenza situation, at the World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland,...
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