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Marburg virus: WHO confirms outbreak of virus after 9 deaths; symptoms, treatment, and other detailsMarburg Virus Outbreak: Equatorial Guinea confirmed its first-ever outbreak of the Marburg virus on Monday after nine people whose samples ...- Why WHO convened an urgent meeting on deadly Marburg virus outbreakWHO Emergency Meeting: As of Monday, 9 people have succumbed to the Marburg virus and there are 16 other suspected cases. The virus which i...
- Equatorial Guinea confirms outbreak of Marburg virus, nine persons dead: WHOIn a press statement, WHO said that Equatorial Guinea confirmed its first-ever outbreak on Monday (local time) after the nine people's samp...
- WHO: COVID cases, deaths in Africa drop to lowest levels yetIn a statement on Thursday, the U.N. health agency said COVID-19 infections due to the omicron surge had "tanked" from a peak of more than ...
- New COVID cases drop by 19% globally, deaths stable: WHOWHO said that all other coronavirus variants, including alpha, beta and delta, continue to decline globally as omicron crowds them out. Amo...
- WHO rushes experts' team to South Africa to help combat COVID-19's new variant OmicronOmicron, which was first identified in South Africa exactly a week ago, now has been detected in at least 24 countries around the world, in...
- World Health Organization official says Africa 'bought world time'Much remains unknown about the new variant, including whether it is more contagious, as some health authorities suspect, whether it makes p...
- Omicron: The new Covid variant has about 30 mutations, recovered people can catch it againThe WHO on Friday designated 'omicron' as a 'variant of concern'.
- WHO to meet on Friday to assess new COVID-19 variant detected in South AfricaThe latest variant is the most heavily mutated version discovered so far. First identified in South Africa at the start of this week, the s...
- WHO approved a malaria vaccine for children – a global health expert explains why that is a big dealApproval of the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine, which goes by the name Mosquirix, provides a "glimmer of hope" for Africa, according to Dr. Matshidiso ...
- Ebola case reported in Ivory Coast after Guinea outbreakHealth officials said it was not immediately known whether the case was linked to an outbreak earlier this year in neighboring Guinea, whic...
- Driven by delta variant, COVID-19 surges across AfricaSouth Africa is leading the new surge in Africa, where case numbers are doubling every three weeks, according to the World Health Organizat...
- Africa not ready for imminent third coronavirus wave, says World Health Organisation"Many African hospitals and clinics are still far from ready to cope with a huge rise in critically ill patients," the World Health Organiz...
- Coronavirus could kill 190,000 Africans and 'smolder' in continentMore than 52,000 confirmed infections and 2,074 virus-related deaths have been reported by African countries, according to figures released...
- Guinea free of Ebola, WHO announcesGuinea was today declared Ebola free by the WHO two years after the virus' deadliest-ever outbreak began in the country, killing more than ...
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