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Health Ministry issues polio alert
Al-Masry Al-Youm 04 Feb 2013
The Health Ministry's preventative medicine department issued a state of alert regarding the discovery of the polio...
Officials: Polio virus found in Egypt linked to Pakistan
AFP 22 Jan 2013
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani health officials Monday called for infants leaving the country to be issued polio...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters are pictured in Geneva April 27, 2009.
New SARS-like virus found, man critically ill in UK
Reuters 24 Sep 2012
A Qatari man struck down with a previously unknown virus related to the deadly SARS infection and the common cold is...
A worker from St Mary's Lacor hospital disinfects villagers during an earlier Ebola outbreak in Uganda. Seven doctors and 13 health workers at Kampala's Mulago hospital are in quarantine after "at least one or two cases" were taken there, with one later dying from the virus.
Deadly ebola outbreak in Ugandan capital
AFP 30 Jul 2012
Uganda's president on Monday warned against shaking hands and other physical contact after the first death from the...
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...
An employee of the veterinarian institute in Hanover, central Germany, holds a petri dish with colonies of the virulent E. coli bacteria (EHEC) on June 1, 2011. The number of people sickened by a mysterious killer bacteria grew, two weeks after the outbreak in Germany, while fears over tainted vegetables hit European farmers hard. Scientists and health officials say they have identified the E. coli bacteria (EHEC) responsible for the outbreak, which has mainly affected northern Germany, but are unable to say what caused it or who was responsible.
EU commitee to test Egyptian seeds for E. coli bacteria
Metwali Salem 16 Aug 2011
A joint committee formed by the European Union (EU) and the World Health Organization (WHO) will begin a field tour of...
Egypt to implement comprehensive plan to combat bird flu
Metwali Salem 23 Jan 2011
The Ministry of Agriculture announced the implementation of a comprehensive plan to combat 2011’s avian influenza...
Universities students in first day of study and fear of swine flu
Egypt ranks second in regional H1N1 rates
Arabic Edition 09 Dec 2009
The government admitted Monday that Egypt has the second highest rate of H1N1 infections in the Middle East. The...