Items related to disease

First day of new school year, Luxor, September 17,2011.
Hundreds more mumps, chickenpox cases in Alexandria schools
Al-Masry Al-Youm 11 Apr 2013
Alexandria schools have seen 249 cases of mumps and chickenpox this month alone, according to Mohsen George, the...
Health Ministry official tries to calm fears of typhoid spread
Al-Masry Al-Youm 14 Feb 2013
  A Health Ministry official said an outbreak of typhoid in Gharbiya Governorate is no cause for fear since the...
Foot-and-mouth disease infections rises to more than 74,000, says agriculture ministry
Al-Masry Al-Youm 10 Apr 2012
The Agriculture Ministry’s daily report on the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak showed on Tuesday an increase in...
Cow infected with foot-and-mouth disease in Ibshway al-Malaq, Gharbiya, March 10,2012.
UN agency: New foot-and-mouth disease strain hits Egypt
Reuters 23 Mar 2012
A new strain of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has hit Egypt and threatens to spread throughout North Africa and the...
Blood samples
Egyptian researchers design 'faster, cheaper' hepatitis C test
AFP 14 Mar 2012
The American University in Cairo said Wednesday that a team of its researchers has designed a faster and cheaper test...
State of emergency declared in Minya over foot-and-mouth disease outbreak
Al-Masry Al-Youm 06 Mar 2012
Foot-and-mouth disease, a viral infection that infects and kills cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals, has spread in...
Afghan citizens walking the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan, 11 November, 2010.
Afghan polio cases rise, govt appeals to militants
AFP 17 Jan 2012
Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged insurgents to allow health teams to vaccinate children in war-torn parts of the...
UNAIDS urges action against HIV in Middle East and North Africa
Heba Helmy 06 Dec 2011
Though HIV has been rapidly sweeping the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since 2001, making it one of the...
Damietta residents protesting against Agrium in 2008
Q&A: Damietta security chief on current crisis
Arabic Edition 14 Nov 2011
Protests continue in the Damietta area after a man was killed yesterday and several injured in clashes with military...
Stranded Africans on Egypt-Libya border say their embassies gave up on them
Arabic Edition 12 Mar 2011
Around 5000 people are stranded on the Libyan border, hoping to enter Egypt via the Salloum crossing, after their...