(a) Surveillance of haemorrhagic fever

2 Rate per 100 cases of haemorrhagic dengue.

In March 2005 an epidemic of Marburg haemorrhagic fever was declared in Angola.

Classical and haemorrhagic dengue fever are kept under epidemiological control in the country's areas at risk.

The largest outbreak of Marburg haemorrhagic fever in history struck the northern Angolan province of Uige in March.

Haemorrhagic dengue mortality has remained below 2 per cent, a level which has been maintained for the last three years.

26. Following the floods in Somalia, cases of haemorrhagic fever associated with large numbers of livestock deaths were reported in southern Somalia and northern Kenya in December 1997.

The Argentine television education system, a branch of the Media Secretariat of the Office of the President of the Nation, has prepared free television broadcasts on the following (a) cholera (b) Argentine haemorrhagic fever (c) alcoholism (d) vaccinations (e) accidents and broadcasts on oral health and accidents in the home are in preparation

Financial tracking by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of donor response to the appeals showed that by mid June 2005, the overall contributions to those appeals varied from nil to 52 per cent of revised requirements, with the exception of the Angola Marburg haemorrhagic fever flash appeal, covered at 72 per cent.

That cause of death patterns vary between low mortality Asian countries, including Japan, and the West is well known. Mortality from cerebrovascular diseases, particularly from haemorrhagic stroke, is, for example, far more common in Asian countries than in the West, while ischaemic heart disease plays a more important role in cardiovascular disease mortality in Western than in Asian countries.