WHO Warns of Soaring Rates of Measles In Europe
Europe has seen a big surge in measles cases in 2017, which the World Health Organization says is a tragedy ...
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Dogs To Be Given Contraceptives To Reduce Rabies Infection
The Veterinary Services Department is working at stopping stray dogs from giving birth as a means to fight the spread ...
Three Die of Rabies In A/R
Three people have died of rabies in the Ashanti Region since the beginning of the year, the regional directorate of ...
Nyonkoko Nurses Abandon Night Duty Over Lack of Electricity
Nurses at Nyonkoko Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) in Sherigu, a suburb of Bolgatanga Municipality in the Upper East ...
In IS-Held Raqa, Parched Civilians Risk Lives For Water
Syria's Raqa once thrived on the banks of the gushing Euphrates River, but dire shortages in the Islamic State group ...
Malaysia Hit By First Rabies Deaths In Almost 20 Years
Two Malaysian children have died after contracting rabies, the country's first such deaths in almost two decades, as authorities battle ...
FDA Introduces Online Reporting System
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has introduced an online reporting system called Safety Watch System (SWS), to enable health ...
‘Tragic’ Measles Vaccine Blunders Kill 15 Children In South Sudan
Fifteen children died in South Sudan after receiving contaminated measles vaccines that had not been properly refrigerated, and were mixed ...
Contaminated Vaccines Kill 15 Children In South Sudan
Fifteen children died in a South Sudanese village last month after being administered with contaminated measles vaccines, the country's health ...
DR Congo Authorises Trial of Experimental Ebola Vaccine
The Democratic Republic of Congo has approved using an experimental Ebola vaccine to combat an outbreak of the virus in ...
Italy Makes 12 Vaccinations Compulsory For Children
Italy has recorded nearly three times as many measles cases so far this year than for all of 2016 The ...
WHO Eyes Vaccine Trial For Ebola-Hit DR Congo
An unlicenced Ebola vaccine could soon be tested in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo hit by ...
50 Percent of Children Born In Ho Not Immunised
Dr. Senanu Kwesi Djokoto, Municipal Director of the Ghana Health Service, has noted that less than 50 percent of children ...
Asokore-Mampong Records Low Immunization Coverage
The Asokore-Mampong Municipality has been recording poor immunization coverage – ranked the lowest nationwide. In year 2014, it achieved 26 ...
El Nino Can Warn On Cholera Outbreaks In Africa
El Nino, the cyclical climatic phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean, is linked to shifts in cholera cases in Africa, providing ...
Vaccine Cost Cripples Response To Outbreak
Nigeria needs as many as 800,000 doses of the type C meningitis vaccine to deal with the outbreak Nigeria does ...
Alarm As Measles Spreads Across Europe
Measles is making its way across Europe at an alarming rate, shocking new figures reveal. Cases of the highly contagious ...
UN, WHO Plan To Eradicate Polio In Africa
The campaign, one of the largest ever conduct in Africa, will run from march 25-28 The World Health Organization and ...
Bill Gates Warns the World To Prep For Bio-Terrorism
Bill Gates says it’s time to redirect some of the money the world spends on weapons to prepare for a ...
Two Yellow Fever Cases Detected In 2016
The Jirapa District Health Directorate detected one suspected measles and two yellow fever cases in 2016. Specimen from the patients ...