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A vaccination campaign has rid Somalia of polio, encouraging hopes that the virus can be halted in other insecure regions, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday.
No Somali child has been paralysed by polio in the past year as a result of a...
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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...
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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...
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A World Health Organization spokesman says the agency may raise its pandemic level to its highest alert, signifying a swine flu pandemic.
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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...
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Parents wondered who to blame when two neighboring schools in their small central Minnesota town closed because one school had a probable case of swine flu.
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Mexico’s top epidemiologist says the World Health Organization was slow to react to an outbreak of atypical pneumonia that grew into the swine flu epidemic, and...
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Under the World Health Organization’s alert system on a developing flu pandemic, phase 6 is the highest level. At the moment, the world has risen to phase 5 from...
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The World Health Organization says it will would stop using the term “swine flu” to avoid confusion over the danger posed by pigs.
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The World Health Organization has increased its tally of confirmed swine flu cases around the world to 236 from 148.
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Taiwan said it had persuaded China to allow it to participate in a key U.N. body, offering a victory for President Ma Ying-jeou’s campaign to win greater...
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The World Health Organization says the swine flu outbreak is moving closer to becoming a pandemic.
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The World Health Organization is calling a third emergency meeting of its flu experts in response to a spike in swine flu cases.
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The World Health Organization was holding an emergency “scientific review” Wednesday of the swine flu outbreak to determine exactly what is known about how...
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Taiwan said Wednesday it had persuaded China to allow it to participate in a key U.N. body, offering a victory for President Ma Ying-jeou’s campaign to win...
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Taiwan’s president says that China has offered to lift its objections to the island’s participation in the key decision-making body of the World Health...
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The World Health Organization says it suspects U.S. swine flu patients may have transmitted the virus to others in the United States.
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Mexico says the World Health Organization has raised its pandemic alert for swine flu by one level, two steps short of declaring a full-blown pandemic
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The World Health Organization says there are now 40 confirmed cases of swine flu in the United States and that it “very concerned” about the disease’s...
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Climate change and obesity are the most talked about issues today. No one is left untouched by them. However, a relationship between the two is surprising. New findings...
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Raul Castro seems ready to discuss improving relations with Washington. Brother Fidel is clearly uncomfortable with the idea.
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