Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Technology helps Nigeria's fight against polio

Mahmud Zubairu scrutinises the computer screen in front of him, watching the progress of healthcare workers as they fan out across Nigeria's northern Kano state where polio runs high.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Bill Gates seeks to help eradicate polio in Nigeria

US billionaire Bill Gates on Monday vowed to help end the scourge of polio in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, still blighted by the debilitating disease.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Cholera kills 50 in northern Nigeria in a week

Cholera has killed 50 people in northwest Nigeria in the past week, health officials said Monday, in the latest outbreak of the disease which has claimed thousands of lives across the country since 2010.

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Nigerian court jails two over killer teething drug

A Nigerian court on Friday sentenced two officials from a pharmaceutical company to seven years in prison over the sale of an adulterated teething drug which killed 84 babies in 2008.

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240,000 Pakistani children miss anti-polio drive (Update)

(AP)—Some 240,000 children have missed U.N.-backed vaccinations against polio because of security concerns in Pakistan's tribal regions bordering Afghanistan, a top official with the World Health Organization said Friday.

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Gates says world must push to finally eradicate polio

Bill Gates said Tuesday that the world must commit to wiping out the remaining cases of polio and finally eradicate the disease despite squeezed aid budgets and violence plaguing vaccination efforts.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Nigeria first lady describes mystery illness

(AP)—Nigeria's first lady has described details of a mystery illness she had that the country's presidency refused to discuss.

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