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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 confirms Uganda will receive Sudan strain Ebola trial vaccine next weekLocal authorities will evaluate the efficacy of three experimental vaccinations: Oxford from the United Kingdom, Sabin from the United Stat...
- 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...
- Covid vaccines have reached just half of world population: ReportThe data shows that less than 11 per cent of people have received at least one dose against Covid in low-income countries.
- 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 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 ...
- WHO recommends world's first malaria vaccine for children at riskThe decision followed a review of a pilot programme deployed since 2019 in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi in which more than two million doses wer...
- 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...
- 'Brutal' third wave hits Africa as vaccination slowsWith just under 5.3 million reported cases and around 139,000 deaths among its nearly 1.3 billion people, Africa is still the world's least...
- 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...
- Alarm grows in Africa as it watches India's COVID-19 crisisThe African continent, with roughly the same population as India and fragile health systems, ``must be very, very prepared'' since a simila...
- 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...
- Fight against malaria could be set back 20 years, WHO warnsThe WHO said new projections indicate that in a worst-case scenario, 769,000 people could die of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa this year as...
- 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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