(CIDRAP News) – Meningococcal disease outbreaks in Africa this year have spread to five more countries, sickening nearly 12,000 people and killing almost 1,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.
April 4, 2006 (CIDRAP News) The H5N1 virus has sneaked across another border, making Burkina Faso the fifth African nation to lose poultry to the virus.