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Malaria in Africa: A child dies every minute

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A child dies every minute from malaria in Africa where it is estimated that 9 out of 10 malaria deaths occur. In 2013, there were 528 000 deaths from malaria and about 78% of these were in children under...

160 people die of rabies worldwide everyday; India sees more than 20,000 deaths annually: Study

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A global study on canine rabies, published today (16 April 2015), has found that 160 people die every single day from the disease.  The report is the first study to consider the impact in terms of deaths...

Ebola outbreak solidifies need for African CDC

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A Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) signed today by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, M.B. Ch.B., chairperson of the African Union Commission, formalizes a collaboration between...

Lassa fever: 20 percent of cases could be due to human-to-human transmission, Cambridge study

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One in five cases of Lassa fever – a disease that kills around 5,000 people a year in West Africa – could be due to human-to-human transmission, with a large proportion of these cases caused...

CDC director Frieden upon returning from West Africa: ‘It is sobering that Ebola continues to spread rapidly in Sierra Leone’

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The current case count of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa has topped 19,000 cases and 7,300 deaths in the countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. This comes after more than...

Polio eradication progress in Africa: Cases drop dramatically on the continent

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The top of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) webpage last week stated the following fact: For the first time ever, no cases of wild poliovirus have been reported in Africa in the last 4 months.  That...

Ebola: Sierra Leone reports 3-times the cases as Guinea and Liberia combined

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As the number of confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the three West African countries with “widespread and intense transmission” gets closer to the 18,000...

Malaria deaths down 54% in Africa: WHO

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Since 2000, the number of malaria deaths in Africa and worldwide have decreased significantly, according to new data published in the World Malaria Report 2014. However, the report notes despite the great...

New HIV infections in children drops by 50%: UNICEF

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An estimated 1.1 million HIV infections among children under 15 have been averted, as new cases declined by over 50 per cent between 2005 and 2013, according to data released by UNICEF today ahead of World...

Global polio cases top 300 as Pakistan reports 14 additional WPV-1

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The number of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases have topped 300 globally as the bad situation in Pakistan continues. With reports of 14 additional cases from Pakistan and one from Afghanistan, the global...