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Yellow fever outbreak in Darfur kills at least 32. Protective measures like the use of bed nets, insect repellent and long clothing are considered the best methods to contain the outbreak.

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Five people have died and 35 have developed a rare fungal meningitis in a widening U.S. outbreak caused by contaminated vials of injectable steroid medication for back pain, according to the CDC.

Uganda's Health Ministry has declared that the recent ebola virus outbreak was officially over, 42 days after the last patient who fell ill with the disease was discharged from medical care. This is double the maximum incubation period (21 days) for Ebola as recommended by WHO. A total of 17 deaths were reported in this outbreak.

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At least 35 people have been confirmed dead following a cholera outbreak along the Kenyan-Somali border mainly in a settlement close to the border with Somalia.

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Syphilis outbreak in Houston and Harris County, Texas, USA. From January to August this year, there were 318 cases. Houston's last syphilis outbreak occurred in 2007. Syphilis begins with a raised sore. Three weeks later, that goes away and a rash begins and after that, it can go internal, but still affects the brain, heart and skin. It is easily cured with a single shot of penicillin.

Ebola virus outbreak in DR Congo continues. A total of 79 cases had been recorded, including 19 confirmed positive after laboratory analysis, 32 probable cases and 28 suspected cases, while 33 deaths were registered by September 25. The disease is transmitted by direct contact with blood, faeces and sweat, by sexual contact and by unprotected handling of contaminated corpses. There is no known cure. Currently, 167 people who have been in contact with the 79 reported cases are under surveillance.

Another 400 West Nile cases have been reported in U.S. during the past week according to the CDC.

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The World Health Organization is keeping a close eye on a disease outbreak in Saudi Arabia caused by a new virus in the same family as the one that caused the SARS outbreak that killed 800 people worldwide in 2002.

About 20 cows owned by villagers in Karisalpatti in Rediyarchathiran union in Dindigul district, India have succumbed to a suspected outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the past week causing panic among the people, who are dependent on the animals for subsistence.

The US Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are warning consumers not to eat Trader Joe's Creamy Salted Valencia Peanut Butter because it is “possibly linked” to a salmonella outbreak.

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At least five people in the Balkans have died from West Nile virus and several dozen others have been taken to hospital in the past four weeks, according to health authorities in Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Croatia.

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Foot and Mouth disease claim livestock in Tibet. The highly infectious and sometimes fatal disease has been traced to livestock in the Nyingtri region of central Tibet. According to the regional agricultural ministry, a total of 123 live head of cattle and 108 pigs have showed symptoms associated with FMD.

The UN health agency says the Ebola death toll stands at 31 in DR Congo. The outbreak cannot be considered to be under control.

The number of swine-origin H3N2 (variant H3N2, or H3N2v) influenza cases in the United States has climbed by 9 in the past week, to 305.

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16 refugees killed by Hepatitis E in camps in South Sudan.

There have been additional confirmed and probable cases with Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Exact numbers have not been released.

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Outbreak of chicken pox in Malawai. Health authorities have closed schools in the southern district of Neno. So far health officials say at least 400 cases have been confirmed.

Outbreak of ramorum tree disease in Surrey, England. Thousands of trees in Surrey have been felled after the highly destructive disease was found in the south east for the first time. The disease has been responsible for the premature felling of more than three million larch trees in the UK since it was first found in the West Country in 2009.

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Three people have died in the first ever outbreak of West Nile virus in Serbia, in which 35 contracted the disease

The Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread to a second location. 15 people have died and 170 are being monitored by health authorities.

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Diptheria outbreak in Haryana, India kills 5 children.

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Hantavirus outbreak in Yosemite National Park, USA. The rodent-borne lung disease has killed two people and sickened 4. 10 000 tourists are at risk. Park visitors who exhibit strange or flu-like symptoms are urged to seek immediate medical attention.

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Legionnaires disease outbreak in Quebec City, Canada. 3 people have died with 40 more infected. It is believed the disease is spread by one or more of the many cooling towers around the city.

 

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9 people have now died in the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

224 cases of a new strain of swine flu have now been reported across 9 US States.

 

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Ebola outbreak in Isiro, Orientale, Democratic Republic of the Congo. 1 person is dead with 3 other infected. This is a different strain of the virus to that found in the Uganda outbreak.

Thousands of people flee Syria to escape a massive diarrhoeal outbreak.

 

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Cholera outbreak in Sierra Leone and Guinea. 60 people have died.

 

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Concern as Ebola patient found in Uganda'a capital, Kampala, a city of 1.5 million people and air connections to Africa and the world. Death toll in the Ebola outbreak rises from 14 to 18. The Ebola virus is spread by direct contact between people.

 

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Typhoid outbreak in Harare and Chitungwiza in Zimbabwe after people once again start eating their own faeces.

 

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Outbreak of Legionnaires disease in Stoke-on-Trent in England. 9 People affected.

 

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112 people, mostly children have died in the latest hand, foot and mouth disease outbreak in China. Authorities are urging parents to bring their children for immediate treatment.