Disease

Public health emergencies, including outbreaks of cholera, mpox and, more recently, viral haemorrhagic fevers, are posing significant threats to the safety and wellbeing of millions of children in Eastern and Southern Africa, UNICEF said today. The...

France has detected its first case of a new mpox virus, the health ministry said Monday, weeks after the World Health Organization maintained its highest alert level amid the epidemic. A case of the clade 1b...

Louisiana health authorities on Monday reported the first human death in the United States linked to bird flu, while noting the patient had underlying medical conditions and that general risks to the public remained “low.” The...

Nigeria has launched an emergency response centre after recording 190 deaths from Lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic illness, the country’s disease control agency said on Monday. The disease, mainly transmitted to humans via contact with food...

On Thursday, the World Health Organisation called on nations to increase bird flu surveillance following the discovery of the first case in a U.S. youngster. Maria Van Kerkhove, director of WHO’s epidemic and pandemic preparation and...

A pig on a small, non-commercial farm in Oregon has tested positive for the H5N1 avian flu virus. This is the first case of its kind in the United States. The infected pig, along with four...

Australia has seen a rapid rise in mpox cases in the past three months, with one health expert concerned that low vaccination rates could be driving a spike outside cities. So far this year, 737 cases...

The Gavi vaccination alliance claims that the world is now in a far better placed to combat the mpox epidemic that is currently raging in Africa thanks to the lessons gained from the Covid pandemic. Gavi...

School-age children between 5 and 19 years old now account for 33 per cent of mpox cases in Burundi, presenting a new challenge as families prepare for the upcoming school year. “The rising number of mpox...

India reported Sunday that it had put a  “suspected mpox case” into isolation, assuring that the world’s most populous  nation had “robust measures” in place, the health ministry said in a  statement. There have been no...