2014年10月2日 星期四

2014-10-03 Pakistan Health

  The Nation   
No time for polio  The News International
As world attention is diverted to the Ebola epidemic threatening most of the West African countries, Pakistan is still struggling to contain a far more dangerous disease – polio. Its victims are handicapped for life. But apparently the newspapers' shrieking ...

Sick minds, sick nation   Pakistan Today
Law and order: Polio team attacked in Rahim Yar Khan   The Express Tribune
Two polio teams attacked in Khanpur   The Nation
DAWN.com   
Daily Times   
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  DAWN.com   
Pakistan may break own record on polio cases  DAWN.com
ISLAMABAD: Health officials said the country was set to break its record for the highest number of polio cases in a year as seven more cases were confirmed on Thursday, raising the tally to 194. “If it [number of cases] reaches 200, we will cross our own ...

Polio cases in Pakistan expected to hit record high after continued militant ...   ABC Online
Pakistan with Record Polio Cases   Prensa Latina
News in Brief   The Daily Star
Zee News   
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty   
Press TV   
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Breast cancer awareness drive launched  The Nation
Islamabad - Breast cancer awareness campaign for 2014 was formally inaugurated at the NORI Islamabad by Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Secretary Foreign Affairs, here on Thursday. All the Oncologists of NORI and eminent professors of surgery, gynecology ...

Pakistan only few steps away from creating national cancer registry   The News International

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  The Express Tribune   
Deadly disease: Prevention is the best way to beat the Congo virus  The Express Tribune
A total of 59 cases of Congo virus have been reported across the country since 2010. PHOTO: STANFORD. KARACHI: Health experts should raise awareness among the public to take extra precautionary measures while visiting cattle markets and handling ...

Need stressed to protect people from Congo virus on Eid   Daily Times

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  DAWN.com   
Another polio case confirmed from Gadap  DAWN.com
KARACHI: As the provincial health department again had to defer its polio campaign in the city's three districts until after Eid due to insufficient security cover, Sindh on Thursday received the confirmation of another polio case from the National Institute of ...

Toddler becomes year's 17th polio victim in city   The News International

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  The News International   
Anti-dengue mozzies released in Rio  Nursing Careers Allied Health
Brazil has begun releasing mosquitoes immunised against dengue fever in a bid to cut the number of people who contract the illness. Ten thousand mosquitoes immunised against dengue fever have been released in Brazil as part of an innovative attempt to ...

'Vaccinated' mosquitoes released in Rio to combat dengue   The Malaysian Insider
Vaccinated´ mosquitos released in Rio to combat dengue   The News International

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  Pakistan Today   
No control on dengue fever in Rawalpindi district  The News International
The ongoing spike of dengue fever in the district could not be controlled so far as during last five days only the allied hospitals registered 23 more confirmed patients of the infection. The data collected by 'The News' has revealed that a total of 65 cases of ...

1633 dengue suspects visit allied hospitals   Pakistan Today

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CDA flexes muscles to knock down dengue  The Nation
Islamabad - Health Services Directorate of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) is striving hard to eliminate dengue virus from the Capital city. All available resources as well as manpower would be used during the dengue virus growth season to ...


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  The Hindu   
Stopping Global Ebola Spread 'World's Highest Priority': United Nations  NDTV
Monrovia: The UN launched a mission on Thursday to prevent the global spread of Ebola, describing the epidemic as the world's "highest priority" as the United States scrambled to limit its own outbreak. Anthony Banbury, head of the UN Mission on Ebola ...

Ebola cases top 7000 in West Africa: UN   The Hindu
Sierra Leone sends SOS to Abbott   The Australian
TAKE A LOOK- The Ebola outbreak   Reuters Africa
Herald Scotland   
The Nation   
Sierra Express Media   
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  Daily Mail   
Ebola patient DID tell doctors he had been to Africa but 'flaw' in records system ...  Daily Mail
A Dallas hospital treating the first person to diagnosed with Ebola on US soil has admitted staff did know he'd been to Africa but a 'flaw' meant he was released and only given antibiotics. As a result, Thomas Eric Duncan was let loose in the city for a week, ...

Dallas Hospital Scrambles to Explain Initial Release of Ebola Patient   TIME
Dallas hospital blames 'flaw' in electronic record-keeping system for release of ...   Washington Post
'You Have to Pray': Liberians in Texas Worry About Family, Stigma   NBCNews.com
Huffington Post   
MiamiHerald.com   
Reuters   
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