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• Mystery S. Africa disease may be rodent borne
JOHANNESBURG - A disease that has killed three people in South Africa and forced others into isolation wards may be rodent borne, a health official said Sunday, SAPA news agency reported. All three have died from external and internal bleeding. The ...
• South Africa will sell ivory to Japan, China
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - The South African government said Thursday that it will press ahead with plans to sell just over 51 tons of ivory to China and Japan under a special exemption to the international ban on the trade. The Convention on ...
• Asteroid reportedly streaks over Africa
Click through the highlights from September’s outer-space imagery, including glittering galaxies as well as Earth’s hurricanes viewed from on high. The space rock , designated asteroid 2008 TC3, was thought to be 3 to 15 feet (1 to 5 meters) in ...
• AIDS vaccine focus shifts after disappointments
... to take precedence over existing models that seek to manage infection after it occurs, experts said. "There's a real redirection and rethinking," said Lynn Morris, co-chair of a world AIDS vaccine conference that starts in Cape Town, South Africa, on ...
• Oprah sued for defamation by ex-school head
PHILADELPHIA - The ex-headmistress of Oprah Winfrey’s school for girls in South Africa sued the TV talk show host for defamation, claiming Winfrey falsely suggested she tried to cover up abuse at the school. In widely reported remarks last year ...