Many dead in major Ebola outbreak
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More than 160 people have died in a deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Uganda has had 119 cases of a new strain of Ebola fever that has killed 35 people, the east African country's Health Ministry said on Friday.
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Nearly 100 people, many of them children, have been sent to hospital after an outbreak of encephalitis B in southwest China, state media said Sunday.
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UN medical experts say 22 people have died from an outbreak of Hepatitis E in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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(Columbia) Dec. 30, 2004 - Officials now say more than 84,000 people are known dead with tens of thousands still missing. The Red Cross fears the overall death toll across eleven nations will top 100,000.
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ADDIS ABABA -- More than 680 people have died in a suspected cholera outbreak in Ethiopia that has also affected neighboring countries, officials said yesterday. Some 60,000 people have been infected, but the country's Health Ministry is resisting pressure to declare an emergency despite a United Nations warning that the disease is an epidemic. "The fact that it is spreading ...
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At least 20 Zimbabwean children have died over the past two weeks after an outbreak of diarrhoea hit the southern town of Kadoma, reports said Friday.
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A deadly outbreak of hepatitis E in Sudan's Darfur region has spread rapidly, with the number of cases almost tripling in less than a month, the World Health Organization said.
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A Thai girl in a northern province died after being infected with the avian influenza virus, bringing to 11 the number of people killed from the disease in the country, an official at the Health Ministry said.
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Three people died of bird flu this week, pushing the total number of deaths in Indonesia to 101, nearly half of all the bird flu deaths in the world.
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Dr David Nabarro told a news conference that disease alone could double the total number of dead from the devastating tidal wave (tsunami) that crashed into many regions of the Indian Ocean last Sunday.
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Â·  Chaos as rescue teams rush to save villagers Â·  More than sixty now dead despite mass evacuation
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Between 170,000 and 255,000 people have died in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region since 2003, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science.
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Infectious diseases kill a surprisingly  large number of women during pregnancy, according to a study  published on Tuesday that suggests many maternal deaths in the  developing world are preventable.
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Uganda said on Wednesday it had eradicated an outbreak of Ebola that infected 149 people, of whom 37 died, mostly in a remote western district.
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As violence in Darfur escalates, a debate is growing over how many people have died in what officials call the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A U.N. agency's survey cites at least 200,000 deaths, but other studies say the death toll could be closer to 400,000 or more.
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: Bloated corpses and weeping relatives filled morgues in Haiti after Tropical Storm Jeann left more than 600 people dead, another tragedy on this Caribban island in a year marked by