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Niger launches mass health campaign to fight tropical diseases (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Niger has launched a massive health campaign aimed at tackling endemic tropical diseases in areas where access to drinking water and health services is poor, the health ministry told AFP Wednesday.

Niger launches mass health campaign to fight tropical diseases (TODAYonline)

Children are vaccinated against near Maradi in South west Niger. Niger has launched a massive health campaign aimed at tackling endemic tropical diseases in areas where access to drinking water and health services is poor, the health ministry told AFP.

Myanmar Risks `Public Health Catastrophe,' Oxfam Says (Update3) (Bloomberg.com)

May 11 (Bloomberg) -- Myanmar is on the brink of a ``public health catastrophe'' that threatens the lives of as many as 1.5 million people suffering from disease and famine following last week's cyclone, charity Oxfam said.

Cyclone survivors in Myanmar fighting against time (Radio Singapore International)

I’m Melanie Yip and coming up in Perspective this week – an assessment of the post-cyclone relief situation in Myanmar. More than 1 million people have been displaced, and an estimated 100,000 left dead after Tropical Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar on May 3rd.

MYANMAR: Public health "catastrophe" looms (IRIN)

BANGKOK, 11 May 2008 (IRIN) - An estimated 1.5 million people in Myanmar are on the brink of a "massive public health catastrophe," the British charity Oxfam warned this weekend, as reports say desperate survivors of cyclone Nargis pour out of the Irrawaddy Delta into regional towns in search of water, food and other forms of help.