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Taking the gap in the Cape Flats
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The laughing young man has a perfect set of teeth, his golden incisors glinting in the sunlight. Suddenly he pops out a pair of dentures, revealing a gap-toothed smile... (Source: IOL: Health)
Source: IOL: Health - November 21, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ghana: Koforidua Central Hospital Organises Training WorkshopEmail this article to a colleague.
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The management of the Koforidua Hospital, in collaboration with the Nurses and Midwifery Association (NMA), has organised a five-day training workshop for its staff. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Mozambique: Typhoid Outbreak in TeteEmail this article to a colleague.
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The supposedly mysterious disease that has been claiming victims in Tsangano district, in the western Mozambican province of Tete, has been identified as typhoid fever, reports Friday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias". (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Public hospitals under scrutinyEmail this article to a colleague.
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The health minister has announced that a team of senior government officials is to assess the state of South Africa's 354 public hospitals. (Source: IOL: Health)
Source: IOL: Health - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ghana: Let Us Exercise More-MinisterEmail this article to a colleague.
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'Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in good health, even as thy soul prospereth,' the Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Elvis Afriyie- Ankrah, echoed these Biblical words following a health walk organized by Zenith Bank at the last weekend. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ghana: 25-Hour Operation Separates Siamese TwinsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Bangladeshi twins nearly three years old, Trishna and Krishna, last Tuesday passed a 25-hour operation to be separated, foreign media reports. Conjoined twins joined at the top of the head traveled to Australia and passed a successful operation. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ghana: Revival of Family Planning, Reproductive Health On the HorizonEmail this article to a colleague.
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A collaborative effort to launch a project to revitalize the family planning and reproductive health global agenda was announced on Wednesday in Kampala by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ghana: Impotence is 85 Percent Higher in Male Smokers Than Non-SmokersEmail this article to a colleague.
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Compared to non smokers impotence is approximately 85% higher in male smokers and it is a key to erectile dysfunction (ED). (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ghana: Do Not Burden Health Sector Unnecessarily, Advises Danish AmbassadorEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Danish Ambassador to Ghana, Mr. Stig Barlyng has advised various stakeholders in the health sector not to burden the system through unnecessary administrative and reporting parallel systems so as to ensure the best possible care for patients. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ghana: Nhis Challenges Can Cripple Health Delivery-Gma PrezEmail this article to a colleague.
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The President of Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr Emmanuel Adom Winful, has observed that the challenges of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) have the potential to cripple health care delivery in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: Managers Ordered to Keep Hospitals CleanEmail this article to a colleague.
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Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has lashed out at hospital managers for failing to keep their hospitals clean. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Who Will Help Fatou Manneh?Email this article to a colleague.
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Fatou Manneh, an 11-month-old baby girl from New Jeshwang, is in dire need of help to undergo surgical operation in Dakar, Senegal, a medical report from the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital revealed. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Uganda: Swine Flu Mystery; is It Exaggerated Or Genuine Scare?Email this article to a colleague.
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Joan Katushabe, a Senior Four student at Ishaka Vocational Secondary School in Bushenyi district, is scared of the AH1N1 virus (swine flu) that attacked Kitabi Seminary which is about 20km from her school. She says the press reports and strict guidelines the school authorities have issued increased her worries about the disease, which was first detected in Mexico early this year. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Uganda: Soon You May Go to Prison for Modifying Women's Body PartsEmail this article to a colleague.
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On November 3, 2009, government announced a plan that will criminalise Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a cultural practice among the Sabiny of Kapchorwa and Bukwo districts, and a few communities in Moroto and Nakapiripirit districts. FGM involves partial or total removal of a woman's external genitalia without medical recommendation or for non-therapeutic reasons. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Cholera Kills Twenty in Borno, 2000 InfectedEmail this article to a colleague.
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About 20 people have lost their lives and over 2,000 hospitalised following a cholera outbreak in Borno State. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ghana: Redco Flats in ShamblesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Residents of the Redco flats at Madina, a suburb of Accra, are complaining bitterly about the deplorable state of the flats, and the health hazards it poses. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Rwanda: Musanze Hit Hardest By Swine FluEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Ministry of Health has revealed Musanze the district most affected by Swine Flu. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Honeywell Launches WheatmealEmail this article to a colleague.
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In its continued quest to make Nigerians healthier and richer, Honeywell Flour Mills Plc yesterday launched Honeywell wheatmeal into the nation's market. The new product is expected to meet all nutritional and health needs of all Nigerians of all ages. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Lagos Honours Champion NewspapersEmail this article to a colleague.
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DAILY Champion newspaper has been awarded the Best Health-Friendly Newspaper for 2008 in Lagos State as the state held its 6th Health Merit Awards on Tuesday at the MUSON Centre, Lagos. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nation Still Battles to Make Food, Drugs Safe - NAFDAC BossEmail this article to a colleague.
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THE Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Dr. Paul Orhii, has said Nigeria is still grappling with the challenge to make safe qualitative, affordable food and medicines available to the people. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Anxiety Over Adenuga's HealthEmail this article to a colleague.
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There was anxiety yesterday over the state of health of the Executive Chairman of Globacom Limited, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jnr., who was said to have slumped in his office at Victoria Island, Lagos. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Swine Flu - Ten Pilgrims Quarantined in JeddaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Ten Nigerian pilgrims were quarantined at the infectious diseases hospital ,Jedda for suspected swine flu (H1N1). (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: Hospitals to Be Assessed By Health TeamsEmail this article to a colleague.
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As part of government's overhauling of the South African health system, the Department of Health is to send a team to all the hospitals around the country to assess the needs and challenges of facilities. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
'Aids-curing bed' under investigationEmail this article to a colleague.
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A thermal massage bed, said to cure Aids patients after a 40-minute session, is reportedly under investigation by the department of health. (Source: IOL: Health)
Source: IOL: Health - November 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Angola: International Conference Debates Fight Against DrugsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Strategies to fight against tobacco, alcoholism and other drugs will be analysed from Thursday to Friday, in Luanda during an international conference, Angop has learnt. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Uganda: Ministry Moves to Check Drug ShopsEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new programme to help curb disparities in drug shop operations, especially in rural areas has been launched. The ministry of Health and the National Drug Authority last week launched the ADS (Accredited Drug Shop) logo, which will be used to help clients access the right medication. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Uganda: Get Off the Sexual Network Or DieEmail this article to a colleague.
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Uganda Health Marketing Group's (UHMG) new "One Love" campaign that tells people to "Get off the Sexual Network" is quite provocative. Who has ever thought that they are part of a network, not a telecom one but a sexual one? I bet you, not that many of us. As we go about sleeping with this one and the other one, we never imagine that they are sleeping with another person who is sleeping with yet another one and the chain goes on and on. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: NYP Embarks On Road Safety Sensitisation CampaignEmail this article to a colleague.
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The National Youth Parliament (NYP) last Friday celebrated road safety week, with special emphasis on the dangers caused by road traffic accidents in The Gambia. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: Teens Doing a Deadly Dance With Hubbly BubblyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Today's story on the dangers of the hubbly bubbly is the start of an initiative between The Star and Lifetalk to raise awareness on the numerous challenges that affect teenagers today. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Motsoaledi warns managers, CEOsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi has told hospital chief executives and managers to shape up or they will be removed. (Source: IOL: Health)
Source: IOL: Health - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Tunisia: Rare Femur Cancer Treated Without Resorting to AmputationEmail this article to a colleague.
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A Tunisian medical team led by Pr. Hichem Boulila, an orthopedic surgeon, succeeded in treating a 64-year-old patient suffering from a femur cancer without resorting to amputation. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: The Nation, Others to Benefit From WHO Yellow Fever VaccinationEmail this article to a colleague.
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The largest-ever mass vaccination campaign to protect people from yellow fever disease will begin next week across three West African countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Eleven Die in Saudi Arabia OfficialEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Head of the Federal Government medical team to the 2009 Hajj, Dr Ibrahim Kana, has confirmed that 11 Nigerian pilgrims have died in Saudi Arabia.Kana told newsmen in Mecca yesterday that 11 deaths (of Nigerians) have so far been recorded in Saudi Arabia. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nation, 12 Others Rated Yellow Fever-ProneEmail this article to a colleague.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO), has listed Nigeria and 12 other African countries as having the highest risk of yellow fever. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Caster's test results will remain a secretEmail this article to a colleague.
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Results of the gender tests carried out on Caster Semenya will be treated as a confidential matter and therefore will not be publicly released. (Source: IOL: Health)
Source: IOL: Health - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Good news for KZN cancer patientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Addington Hospital cancer patients are to get the most advanced cancer treatment available in the world. (Source: IOL: Health)
Source: IOL: Health - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: FG to Begin Rural Posting of Resident DoctorsEmail this article to a colleague.
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To ensure that the people at the grass root enjoy health care delivery, federal government has disclosed that it would soon begin rural posting of medical doctors on a residency. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Micronutrients, the Solution to Malnourishment - NAFDACEmail this article to a colleague.
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NATIONAL Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has again emphasized that Micronutrients such as vitamin A Iodine, Zinc to mention a few are the ultimate solution to malnourishment which indeed affects most Nigerian children. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Dentists Laments Masses Poor Awareness of Oral HealthEmail this article to a colleague.
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DENTISTS who gathered in Lagos, under the umbrella of Nigeria Dental Association (NDA), Lagos State branch on Monday, lamented Nigerians poor awareness of oral health. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Rhesus Factor- Know Your Blood Group, Commissioner Advises WomenEmail this article to a colleague.
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LAGOS State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris has called on all women of child-bearing age to ensure that they know their blood groups and rhesus factor, a substance found in the blood symbolized by plus or minus after the blood group; in order to prevent miscarriages and even death that can result from Rhesus incompatibility. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: LASG Appeals to Women On Cervical CancerEmail this article to a colleague.
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A spokesperson of Lagos state government (LASG) the Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris has urged women to take advantage of the state government periodic free cervical cancer screening programme to examine themselves just has he noted that no fewer than 1006 women benefited from the latest exercise in the Ikorodu Division of the state. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: 'Diabetes is Life-Threatening But Manageable'Email this article to a colleague.
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DIABETES is fast becoming widespread due to increased consumption of junk foods and prevalence of obesity, Professor Augustine Ohwovoriohe, a consultant with the Department of Medicine, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTTH), Lagos has said. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: FG Proposes Tough Penalty for Drug FakersEmail this article to a colleague.
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Minister of State for Health, Dr. Aliyu Idi Hong said this at a networking programme of the Nigerian Representatives of Overseas Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (NIROPHARM) held at Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Ikeja, Lagos on Tuesday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Uganda: Kisoro Residents Petition Govt Over Sewage PlantEmail this article to a colleague.
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Residents of Kisoro Town Council have asked the Government to relocate the sewage plant in their area, saying it is a threat to their health. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Pilgrim Suffers StrokeEmail this article to a colleague.
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A Nigerian pilgrim from Kaduna State, 55 year old Hajiya Maryam Abdullahi has suffered a stroke in Saudi Arabia. The attack came while she was performing this year's hajj, the Director of Operations of the state Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board Alhaji Yahuza S. Makarfi has confirmed. Speaking with our correspondent, he said she had been taken to the King Fahd Hospital for medication and was responding to treatment. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Uganda: Leprosy Survivors Get HousingEmail this article to a colleague.
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SURVIVORS of leprosy in Gulu and Amuru districts have received 15 uniports. The survivors, most of whom lost their fingers and toes, are not able to work to earn a living. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Uganda: Police Impound 42 Waragi Jerrycans in LiraEmail this article to a colleague.
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THE Police on Monday impounded 42 jerrycans of the killer waragi in Olilim sub-county in Lira district. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Uganda: Congolese Refugees Ask to Return HomeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Hundreds of Congolese women in Gulu district have asked the Government to repatriate them home. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Legislator Wants Kubwa General Hospital ExpandedEmail this article to a colleague.
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Worried by congestion at Kubwa General Hospital, Abuja, the Deputy Speaker of Bwari Area Council, Abubakar Bala Matawale has called on the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Alhaji Muhammadu Adamu Aliero to expand the hospital so that it can accommodate patients. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Tunisia: Nation Takes Preventive Measures Against H1N1 VirusEmail this article to a colleague.
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During a press conference held on Monday on assessing the A (H1N1) epidemiological situation and the spread of the virus during winter season, Director General of Health and Director General the National Observatory of Emergent and Re-Emergent Diseases, Mr. Mohammad Al Kouni, said that in order to preventthe virus spreading, all necessary precautionary measures had been taken by the competent services and that the A (H1N1) flu vaccine is available in sufficient quantities. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 19, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
