Hi there, I want to include some data into my website which covers malaria and yellow feewer related to each country. On the WHO website are all the infos I need. Their webmaster told me that unfortunatelly there is no db behind that and everything gos with html files. But I am free to extract that data. Well, I did create a txt file which looks more or less like that: 
ALGERIA
Yellow fever: A yellow fever vaccination certificate is required from
travellers over 1 year of age coming from infected areas.
Malaria: Malaria risk is limited. One small focus (P. vivax) has been
reported in Ihrir (Illizi Department), but this is isolated and access
+ is
difficult.
Recommended prophylaxis: none.

AMERICAN SAMOA
Capital: Pago Pago
Altitude: 10 m
Yellow fever: A yellow fever vaccination certificate is required from
travellers over 1 year of age coming from infected areas.

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Now I have a table in a MySQL db naming all those countries. The goal is to extract the Yellow fever and Malaria line and put it into a mysql table related to the countries. I saw that PHP has some good functions on text. somebody mentioned in a php group, that I should better look out at a perl site.Do u guys think this could be done??? Doing it by hand could take allllloooong loooooong while. I am open for any idea! Thanx a lot for any help Cheers, Andy

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