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(CIDRAP News) – Though global rates of the most deadly form of malaria are declining in Africa, the parasite's less deadly but more difficult-to-treat cousin, Plasmodium vivax, has a firm foothold in many parts of South Asia and Latin America, according to new mapping studies.

(CIDRAP News) - Japan and Myanmar recently reported fresh H5N1 avian influenza outbreaks at poultry farms, with Japan also finding the virus in more wild birds, according to official reports and local media sources.

(CIDRAP News) – Animal health officials in Japan, South Korea, and Myanmar reported fresh outbreaks of the H5N1 avian influenza in poultry, according to media reports and reports to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).