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Fact sheets: Infectious diseases

African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
August 2006

Anthrax
October 2001

Avian influenza (" bird flu")
February 2006

Buruli ulcer disease
March 2007

Cholera
September 2007

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
November 2001

Dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever
May 2008

Ebola haemorrhagic fever
September 2007

Enteroviruses - non polio
May 2002

Haemophilus influenzae type B (HiB)
December 2005

Hepatitis B
August 2008

Hepatitis C
October 2000

Hepatitis E
January 2005

Influenza
March 2003

Lassa fever
April 2005

Legionellosis
February 2005

Leprosy
October 2005

Malaria
May 2007

Marburg haemorrhagic fever
July 2008

Meningococcal meningitis
May 2003

Nipah virus
September 2001

Plague
February 2005

Poliomyelitis
January 2008

Rift Valley fever
September 2007

Smallpox

Tuberculosis
March 2007

Yellow fever
December 2001


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