| July 11, 2008 | - The World Health Organization warned people not to go into Ugandan bat caves after a Dutch tourist died from the Marburg virus, a hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola.
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BBC
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| February 26, 2008 | - The World Health Organization announced that virtually untreatable drug-resistant tuberculosis could now be found in 45 countries with a half-million new cases each year, and that the highest rate of infection was in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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World Health Organization
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| March 28, 2007 | - The World Health Organization endorsed circumcision as a tool to reduce the spread of HIV. “The recommendations represent a significant step forward,” said WHO HIV/AIDS director Kevin De Cock.
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BBC
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| December 14, 2006 | - Kevin De Cock, HIV/AIDS director of the World Health Organization, warned that circumcision was “not a magic bullet.”
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BBC
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| June 21, 2006 | - The World Health Organization said that Indonesians who contracted bird flu were ignorant.
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Reuters via Google News
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| January 20, 2005 | - The World Health Organization warned that the bird flu virus endemic in Asia was mutating in such a way that it could cause a major, overdue human influenza outbreak with a "best case scenario" of 2 million to 7 million deaths.
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Reuters
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| December 30, 2004 | - The World Health Organization warned that outbreaks of cholera and dysentery resulting from a lack of clean drinking water could easily double the number of people killed by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Reuters
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| October 30, 2004 | - The World Health Organization announced that avian flu probably has not mutated into a form that can pass from human to human.
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New York Times
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| October 7, 2004 | - The World Health Organization released a study, based on an unscientific "spot-check" sampling, concluding that Indonesian villagers in Buyat Bay, Sulawesi, have not been poisoned by a gold mine, owned by the Newmont Mining Corporation, that dumped about 2,000 tons of mine tailings a day into nearby waters.
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New York Times
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| September 8, 2004 | - The World Health Organization reported that suicide kills more people worldwide than murder and war put together.
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New Scientist
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| August 27, 2004 | - The World Health Organization said that hepatitis E cases have tripled in the last month in Darfur.
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New Scientist
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| February 2, 2004 | - The World Health Organization reported a possible case of human-to-human transmission of the avian flu that has killed millions of birds across Asia and at least 12 people.
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BBC
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| January 26, 2004 | - Avian influenza was spreading across Asia; the World Health Organization said it was the largest outbreak in history.
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New Scientist
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