Disease Outbreaks


DAKAR, Senegal - An alarming number of new cholera cases have been reported in the West African nations of Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, an international aid agency said Thursday.

WASHINGTON - The Associated Press has learned that the peanut industry executive whose filthy processing plants were blamed in a salmonella outbreak two years ago that killed nine people and sickened hundreds more is back in the business.
Cholera outbreak in Cameroon 'worst in 20 years'
YAOUNDE, Cameroon - UNICEF says more than 300 people have died in the West African nation of Cameroon from the country's worst cholera outbreak in 20 years.
Cholera kills 41 in Central African nation of Chad
N'DJAMENA, Chad - Health officials in Chad say an outbreak of cholera in the Central African nation has killed at least 41 people.

LYNCHBURG, Va. - The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about U.S.
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