Royals flushed: South Africa halves number of recognised monarchies
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Half of South Africa's traditional kings and queens will no longer be recognised, a six-year government study concludes.
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WHO Warns Bird Flu Continues To Pose Threat Despite a reduction in the number of cases of avian flu (H5N1) since its peak in 2006, the WHO said in a statement Wednesday that "the newly confirmed human and poultry cases of avian influenza this year are a reminder that the virus poses a real and continuous threat to human health," Agence France-Presse reports (3/24)...
Deadly bird flu strain found in Nigeria, first case in Africa
DULUE MBACHU, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 02-08-2006 Dateline: LAGOS, NigeriaA worrisome strain of the bird flu virus has killed 40,000 birds on a large commercial poultry farm in Nigeria, the first documented case in Africa, authorities said Wednesday.The Paris-based World Organization
Publication: AP Worldstream
Bird Flu Going to East Africa, United Nations Officials Fear - New York Times
As bird culls to control probable new outbreaks of avian flu started on farms in Russia and Macedonia on Wednesday, United Nations officials here warned that their far larger concern was that the virus was on its way to East Africa, where the disease could be nearly impossible to control.As bird
Publication: The New York Times
VOA NEWS: BIRD FLU SPREADS ANXIETY IN WEST AFRICA
The Voice of America issued the following story: By Franz Wild Bird flu has been identified in three West African countries. But widespread anxiety over the threat of the contagious disease has spread farther. Komi a security guard in Deux Plateaux, one of the leafy suburbs of Ivory Coast's biggest
Publication: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
Bird flu hits Africa as deadly strain kills 40,000 chickens
A deadly strain of the bird flu virus has killed 40,000 birds on a commercial farm in northern Nigeria, raising fears that the disease has already spread across Africa. The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) confirmed yesterday that the first recorded case of H5N1 bird flu in Africa had
Publication: Belfast Telegraph
As bird flu shock wanes in West Africa, false sense of security creeps in
DULUE MBACHU, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 05-01-2006 Dateline: LAGOS, NigeriaAt the Costain livestock market in Nigeria's biggest city of Lagos, chicken buyers are again waiting while boys in their early teens slaughter, clean and cut up birds for them to take home.The sight had all but
Publication: AP Worldstream
Bird Flu Shock Wanes in West Africa
DULUE MBACHU, Associated Press Writer AP Online 05-02-2006 Dateline: LAGOS, NigeriaAt the Costain livestock market in Nigeria's biggest city of Lagos, chicken buyers are again waiting while boys in their early teens slaughter, clean and cut up birds for them to take home.The sight had all but
Publication: AP Online
Experts fear uncontrollable spread of bird flu in Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Bird flu has spread to Africa, and experts fear that containing it will be a major problem on a continent where backyard chickens are the norm, health infrastructure is weak and many governments have little in the way of funding or plans to deal with an avian flu
Publication: Charleston Gazette
Pandemic risk rises as bird flu spreadsLack of health facilities in Africa me...
Elisabeth Rosenthal and Donald G. McNeil Jr. International Herald Tribune 02-13-2006 As bird flu outbreaks have cropped up in Nigeria, Azerbaijan and Iraq over the past week countries that are ill-prepared to battle the fast-moving virus scientists have said that the new pattern of spreading
Publication: International Herald Tribune
Africa may face serious bird flu risks, especially East Africa: UN
Africa may face serious bird flu risks, especially East Africa: UN NAIROBI, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) - After the confirmed outbreaks of avian influenza in Romania and Turkey, the risk of bird flu spreading to the Middle East and African countries has markedly increased, especially East Africa, UN Food and
Publication: Xinhua News Agency
Containing bird flu in Africa a huge job.
Byline: Laurie Goering Feb. 17-JOHANNESBURG - Bird flu has spread to Africa, and experts fear that containing it will be a major problem on a continent where back-yard chickens are the norm, health infrastructure is weak and many governments have little in the way of funding or plans to deal with
Publication: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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