41.   He urged the provincial health office to intensify efforts to combat the disease, called muntaber.

42.   Hence the need for a vaccine that can combat the disease at the root, at least in the developing countries grappling with financial stress.

43.   It is expected to examine whether the EU and national governments properly combatted the disease, which led to disagreements on whether to vaccinate animals or slaughter them.

44.   It also promised to combat diseases associated with malaria.

45.   It is the first AIDS Day in South Africa under a multiracial government, and President Nelson Mandela urged the nation to join together in combatting the disease.

46.   It said army medical staff were being deployed to help combat the disease in worst hit areas of northern and western Zimbabwe.

47.   New York, the state with the highest number of West Nile cases, also has the costliest plans to combat the disease.

48.   Previous efforts to combat the disease in Kabul have been too limited, he said.

49.   Richard Leclair, WHO spokesman, said he had just received a memo from Peter Piot, head of UNAIDS, the joint U.N. program to combat the disease.

50.   Several thousand people then left the rally, organized by AIDES, an activist group combatting the disease, to march through the French capital.