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Fire Outbreak at Social Welfare

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Three offices of the Gambia Association of the Physically Disabled (GAPD) at the Department of Social Welfare were last Friday badly damaged by fire....

CRR Fire Victims Receive SK Jaiteh Boost

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Following a disastrous fire outbreak in the village of Jamali Babou in SamiDistrict of the Central River Region which ravages more than 30 compounds,...

Gambia Warns Against Swine Influenza Outbreak

Picture: Dr. Mariatou Jallow

Thursday, April 30, 2009

The Ministry of Health in a statement issued on Tuesday has warned against an outbreak of a deadly respiratory disease called Swine Influenza (Flu)...

Over D6m Project to Combat Avian Influenza

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Dr Kebba Daffeh, the acting Director of Veterinary Services who is also the project coordinator of Support Program for Integrated National Action...

Number of cholera deaths in Zimbabwe surpasses 4,000

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

According to a report released by the United Nations' World Health Organisation (WHO), over four thousand people have died from cholera in Zimbabwe,...

NIGERIA: Fighting lethal Lassa fever

Friday, March 06, 2009

Nigerian health officials are working to contain a resurgence of Lassa fever, a highly infectious disease that has killed at least eight people in...

WEST AFRICA: Meningitis emergency vaccine stock tapped early

Friday, March 06, 2009

The UN World Health Organization’s meningitis vaccine stockpile programme has already tapped into its inventory, weeks before the worst of the...

DRC: Ebola outbreak “under control”

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

An epidemic of the haemorrhagic Ebola fever reported in Mweka and Luebo health zones in the southern province of Kasai Occidental is over, the...

Stationary car catches fire on Sedat Jobe Avenue

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

A minor fire outbreak yesterday afternoon, erupted from a vehicle along the Sedat Jobe Avenue, Fajara. The vehicle, a Peugeot 505 Saloon, was...

KENYA: New cases of black fever in north-east

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

At least 33 cases of visceral leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease also known as Kala-azar or black fever, have been reported in the past four weeks in...