Health
UN eyes Africa oil levy to fight disease
The United Nations has begun talks with African leaders over a levy on oil that could rake in huge sums to fight disease in developing countries, a top official said Tuesday.
May 20, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Bubonic plague claims 32 lives in Madagascar (Update)
Bubonic plague, which wiped out a third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages, has reared its ugly head in the African island state of Madagascar where 32 people have died in a fresh outbreak of the so-called Black Death ...
Dec 20, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Plague 'epidemic' kills 39 in Madagascar (Update)
An outbreak of plague even more vicious than the bubonic strain dubbed the black death has killed 39 people in Madagascar, the government said Thursday.
Dec 12, 2013
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Surgery
Conjoined twins die in Madagascar after operation
A pair of six-month-old conjoined twins who were connected at the stomach, sternum and liver have died in Madagascar two days after a marathon surgery to separate them, their doctor said Friday.
Mar 23, 2012
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Surgery
Madagascar hospital successfully separates conjoined twins
Surgeons in Madagascar separated a pair of six-month-old conjoined twins who were connected at the stomach, sternum and liver, a hospital official said Thursday.
Mar 22, 2012
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