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Manila (AFP) Sept 21, 2008 - The World Health Organisation said Sunday it is helping China solve its tainted milk formula problem, while criticising the government for initially failing to alert the international community.
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Geneva (AFP) Sept 25, 2009 - The World Health Organisation said Friday that anti-viral drugs should not be used to prevent swine flu, noting that almost half of drug resistance cases were linked to use of the medication before infection.
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Copenhagen (AFP) Sept 15, 2009 - Swine flu will have a devastating effect on poor countries where lives will be lost due to ill-equipped health care facilities, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday.
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Geneva (AFP) Sept 30, 2015 - People who regularly face a substantial risk of HIV infection should take preventative anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment, the World Health Organization said in new guidelines released Wednesday.
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Geneva (AFP) Sept 22, 2021 - The World Health Organization strengthened its air quality guidelines on Wednesday, saying air pollution was now one of the biggest environmental threats to human health, causing seven million premature deaths a year.
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Geneva (AFP) Sept 24, 2009 - The World Health Organization said Thursday that pharmaceutical firms can produce only three billion doses of swine flu vaccines a year, covering less than half of the global population.
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Geneva (AFP) Sept 17, 2023 - The head of the World Health Organization told the Financial Times he was ready to send a new mission of experts to China to investigate the origins of Covid-19.
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Kinshasa (AFP) Sept 9, 2017 - The World Health Organization on Saturday sounded the alarm over a cholera outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo which has already claimed 528 lives and reached worrying proportions.
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New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Sept 1, 2008 - Too vulnerable to evacuate, dozens of children hunkered down in a New Orleans hospital as Hurricane Gustav blasted the city around them with powerful winds.
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Apia, Samoa (AFP) Sept 8, 2017 - Pacific island leaders on Friday demanded urgent action from the global community to address climate change, following fresh warnings that the region would be hit harder than anywhere else on Earth.
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Bago, Myanmar (AFP) Sept 15, 2024 - Volunteers rushed to areas inundated by floods in Myanmar on Sunday as the country's death toll from the Typhoon Yagi deluge surged to 113 and remote areas reported increasing numbers of dead and missing.
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Port Moresby (AFP) Sept 13, 2022 - Volunteer rescuers ran non-stop airlifts to remote areas of Papua New Guinea on Tuesday, seeking to reach victims still stranded two days after a massive 7.6-magnitude earthquake.
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Dernau, Germany (AFP) Sept 2, 2021 - Instead of the shouts of noisy children, the halls of the primary school in the German town of Dernau are filled with the deafening sound of a dozen drills.
Jun 26, 2026
Valverde, Spain (AFP) Sept 28, 2011 - Police evacuated residents and tourists from houses at the foot of a volcano on Spain's Canary Islands after a growing series of earthquakes raised fears of an eruption, officials and locals said Wednesday.
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Lima (AFP) Sept 12, 2013 - Peru declared a state of emergency Thursday in nine districts threatened by the Ubinas volcano, which has erupted seven times since September 1, spewing harmful gas and ash.
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Los Llanos De Aridane, Spain (AFP) Sept 22, 2021 - The vast wall of molten lava creeping down the slopes of Spain's La Palma island has destroyed 320 buildings and over 154 hectares of land, Europe's volcano observatory said Wednesday.
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