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Freetown — World Health Organization, WHO, regional director for Africa, Dr. Luis Gomes Sambo has urged countries in the region to be extra vigilant and strengthen their disease surveillance to ensure prompt detection and response to the pandemic H1N1 2009. The advice came following the confirmation of ten cases of the new flu virus in five countries: Cape Verde, Algeria, Ethiopia and Cote d'Ivoire and South Africa where the first confirmed case of the virus was reported on 18 June 09. All the confirmed cases are imported with the exception of one case in Algeria where the patient was in close contact with an imported case that was confirmed locally "Given the prevailing health challenges facing the region, it is vital that every effort is made to strengthen surveillance and treatment to limit spread of the disease. It is... [read full story]
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Nov 23, 2009 - The site of a ground station for Galileo, Europe's global navigation satellite system, inside the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), near Kourou in French Guiana, was inaugurated on 19 November.
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UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations says the remains of British hostage Alec Collett, who disappeared in 1985 during Lebanon's civil war, have been identified. U.N. deputy spokeswoman Marie Okabe announced Monday that...
At 11,000 Feet, Hawaii Station Tracks Troubling Upward Curve Of C02 As Climate Talks Loom (AP) MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY, Hawaii (AP) - Today's emissions curve is tracking the worst case among seven emissions scenarios set out in...
