AFP - At an elementary school in the Senegalese capital Dakar, every classroom is equipped with potentially life-saving tools: a basin and a bar of soap.

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Reuters - A new, cherry-flavored anti-malaria pill works as well as current treatments, is easy for children to swallow and could save lives, researchers reported on Wednesday.

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AP - When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard.

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