21.   Provincial health ministers will review the data at their next meeting in May and send the report to Ottawa after that, he said.

22.   Provincial health officials have been told to prepare medicine and vaccines to stop possible epidemics.

23.   Tests were still being conducted on those who had come into contact with the victims, provincial health director Dr. Prosper Abessolo-Mengue said.

24.   Talks with Baragwanath Hospital administrators and the provincial health minister, had stalled.

25.   The chief of the provincial health center, Samerng Yaengkratok, confirmed that one person had been killed and four of the injured were in serious condition.

26.   The navy, army and provincial health department still were trying to move mobile health units into the area to get clean drinking water and food to flood victims.

27.   The officials sacked include two high-ranking national-level civil servants and five provincial health chiefs.

28.   The rebels allowed a provincial health officer, Dr. Nelsa Amin, to bring them medicine, accompanied by several reporters.

29.   The report issued Wednesday came from an investigating committee comprising University of Pretoria officials and members of the Gauteng provincial health department.

30.   Wattana and provincial health officials said it was unclear whether the cases were the result of the Malaysian outbreak crossing the border.