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• New live oral cholera vaccine developed by Indian scientists

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Kolkata, Nov.11 (ANI): Scientists from three Indian institutes have developed a new live oral cholera vaccine from non-virulent innocuous strain, which was modified to formulate the vaccine.National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) developed this new vaccine with the help of scientists from Institute ...
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• Dukoral

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 142
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• Dukoral

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 142
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• Dukoral

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 142
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• The Caribbean is One of the Most Vulnerable Regions to Climate Change

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  Barbados, West Indies, Caribbean With less than two months to go before COP15, the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen, TakePart continues to cover a breadth of relevant and compelling topics. One topic of particular interest to me is how climate change is impacting small island-states. Nations like the Maldives, for ...
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• Zambia: Lusaka declares war against malaria, cholera

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 133
  Lusaka District Commissioner Christah Kalulu is confident [that the city] will have fewer cases of cholera and malaria, and suffer less disaster than it has during rainy seasons over the past decade. This follows the successful implementation of the District Disaster Reduction (DDR) programme which was launched on ...
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• Zambia: Lusaka declares war against malaria, cholera

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  Lusaka District Commissioner Christah Kalulu is confident [that the city] will have fewer cases of cholera and malaria, and suffer less disaster than it has during rainy seasons over the past decade. This follows the successful implementation of the District Disaster Reduction (DDR) programme which was launched on ...
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• Cameroon: cholera kills at least 51 in north

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  Cholera has killed at least 51 people in the past few weeks in northern Cameroon, where health experts say safe water and proper sanitation are sorely lacking. “[The fight against cholera] here will be difficult because the hygiene conditions are awful,” said a health official who was not authorized to be quoted. ...
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• Kenya: cholera outbreaks in the north, Coast and Nairobi slums

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 133
  In early October 2009, at least 29 people died of cholera and hundreds more were being treated for cholera-related symptoms such as acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) in the larger Turkana District in the northwest and in the eastern regions of Garbatulla and Laisamis, say health officials. The regions are not only facing ...
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• Kenya: cholera outbreaks in the north, Coast and Nairobi slums

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  In early October 2009, at least 29 people died of cholera and hundreds more were being treated for cholera-related symptoms such as acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) in the larger Turkana District in the northwest and in the eastern regions of Garbatulla and Laisamis, say health officials. The regions are not only facing ...
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• New insight into predicting cholera epidemics in the Bengal Delta

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 160
  (Tufts University) In Bangladesh cholera epidemics occur twice a year. Scientists have tried, without much success, to determine the causes and advance early detection and prevention efforts. Now, researchers [...]
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• Zimbabwe II

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 134
  Previous events in the sorry saga ; What Rhodesia Can Teach Us about Zimbabwe O. Carl Unegbu: Zimbabwe’s Blood Diamond: The New Unfinished Business of Kimberley (World Policy Blog) Once more, Africans are dying as a result of what should have been a blessing to their lives. This time the victims are not from ...
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• Tap wealth of local products emerging to fight neglected diseases of poor: study

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  Research firms in developing countries have a medicine cabinet full of affordable and innovative drugs, diagnostics and vaccines on shelves or in development to address "neglected tropical diseases
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• US charity steps up its programme on neglected infections

  
  TropIKA — Authority: 126
  A news report highlights the activities of Medical Assistance Programs International (MAP) a US Christian group which is supplying drugs for the treatment of neglected infectious diseases in developing countries. Drugs worth $400 million were dispatched last year alone. The group is also involved in community health ...
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• Guinea / Guinea-Bissau: driving home the cholera message

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  In Bafata, Guinea-Bissau, children go door-to-door counting mosquito nets, monitoring hand-washing and checking the distance between kitchens and latrines. The activities are among efforts by health NGOs and authorities to fill the gap between cholera-prevention messages and behaviour, after a 2008 epidemic killed ...
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• Guinea / Guinea-Bissau: driving home the cholera message

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 133
  In Bafata, Guinea-Bissau, children go door-to-door counting mosquito nets, monitoring hand-washing and checking the distance between kitchens and latrines. The activities are among efforts by health NGOs and authorities to fill the gap between cholera-prevention messages and behaviour, after a 2008 epidemic killed ...
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• West Africa: stopping cholera emergencies

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  Cholera outbreaks in West Africa generally trigger extra hand-washings in households and panic-buying of bleach for treating water. But beating the deadly – but easily preventable – illness requires that such hygiene practices become routine, health experts say. Researchers with the London School of Hygiene and ...
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• West Africa: Stopping cholera emergencies

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 133
  Cholera outbreaks in West Africa generally trigger extra hand-washings in households and panic-buying of bleach for treating water. But beating the deadly – but easily preventable – illness requires that such hygiene practices become routine, health experts say. Researchers with the London School of Hygiene and ...
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• Zimbabwe II

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 134
  Previous events in the sorry saga ; What Rhodesia Can Teach Us about Zimbabwe Zimbabwe deports UN rights expert Zimbabwean authorities refused to allow United Nations human rights expert Manfred Nowak to enter the country even though he was invited to visit by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. Nowak was ...
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• Christopher Collins

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Microbiologist who studied lethal diseases and wrote Filth and Fevers about cholera
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