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NIGERIA STRUGGLES WITH RESURGENCE OF POLIO
13 November 2003

Nigeria is facing a new polio eradication campaign. Almost half the world's polio cases are in Nigeria. Neighboring countries are beginning campaigns to keep the disease from spreading. The World Health Organization cautions that failure will permit the disease to spread to Nigeria's neighbors, undermining decades' worth of public health efforts.

The eradication project has been stifled by opposition from influential muslim clerics in the north, who sowed doubts about vaccine safety. The Nigerian government has implemented an investigatory committee to establish and confirm the safety of the vaccines.

WHO launched its current polio eradication campaign in 1999. Since then, the campaign has successfully reduced the number of countries with infections from 125 to 7. [For more: BBC]

AIDS KILLED MORE THAN 3 MILLION IN 2005
3 December 2005

The human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) and its deadly end-stage syndrome, AIDS, killed at least 3 million people in 2005. HIV also infected 5 million new people around the world, the largest single increase on record, though similar numbers were reported for 2003. The pandemic is still spreading. [Full Story]

LUNG CANCER KILLS NON-SMOKERS TOO
11 August 2005

Lung cancer is one of the most dangerous and widespread diseases in the United States. An estimated 170,000 Americans will be diagnosed with lung cancer this year. Six in ten will die within one year. 17% of new diagnoses are made for lifelong non-smokers. [Full Story]

MALARIA PANDEMIC KILLS 2 MILLION PER YEAR
24 June 2004

Anti-malaria activist and missionary groups report malaria is world's unseen pandemic, killing millions but largely unnoticed in the developed world. In April 2003, the United States' Department of Health and Human Services reported that malaria "affects an estimated 500 million people...[Full Story]

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