A meeting convened by WHO in Africa in February, 2024, aimed to develop a protocol for assessing new treatments for filovirus diseases during outbreaks. Esther Nakkazi reports.
To strengthen regional cross-border Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) readiness during public health emergencies, Africa CDC, UNICEF, IFRC, and WHO (the Collective Service core ...
More than 1,000 people have succumbed to cholera, while tens of thousands across Africa have been infected in a series of deadly cholera outbreaks since the beginning of 2024. The hardest hit ...
Russia’s sanitary watchdog played a role in eliminating the Ebola outbreak in the Republic of Guinea, and in 2017 it assisted Madagascar in dealing with its outbreak of plague ...
The outbreak has pushed Puerto Rico, Peru and nine of Brazil’s 26 states to declare states of emergency. More than 1,800 people in the Americas have died this year from dengue.
A team of Canadian and international scientists working on the ground in DRC began tracking a large mpox outbreak in the country's Kamituga mining region last year. From October 2023 onward ...
Plus there's more on the way. Forecasters are warning of another multi-day outbreak of severe weather over the central U.S., which started Tuesday and will last for much of the week. The storms ...
Between 2012 and 2022 in Uganda, there were more than 5,000 suspected and confirmed cases of yellow fever. The Health ministry said in the first phase of the vaccination in six regions—specifically ...
“Yellow fever falls in the same group [as] Ebola. Those are dangerous diseases spread by mosquitoes; one case constitutes an outbreak,” Dr Ombeva Malande, a vaccinologist at the Uganda’s ...
There have been 121 measles cases reported so far this year. The most recent outbreak of measles is threatening the United States' elimination status, according to a new Centers for Disease ...