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With boosted global supply of vaccine, preventive cholera vaccination resumes
3+ hour, 29+ min ago (296+ words) Amid an ongoing global cholera surge that has stretched cholera vaccine stocks, officials from the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, said today that there is now enough vaccine supply to relaunch preventive vaccination campaigns. The…...
African countries endorse coordinated plan to battle cholera outbreaks
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (530+ words) Leaders from 20 African countries hit by recent cholera outbreaks met yesterday in a high-level meeting called by Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and agreed on a continental approach to managing the outbreaks, similar to the approach used…...
Cholera spreading across Angola, with more than 8,500 cases
10+ mon, 4+ day ago (438+ words) A cholera outbreak in Angola has spread to 16 of the country's 21 provinces since the first of the year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in an outbreak notice late last week. A cholera outbreak in Angola has spread to 16 of…...
WHO notes 4 new MERS cases, 2 fatal, in Saudi Arabia since September
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (476+ words) In its latest biannual update on Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in Saudi Arabia yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported four new cases since September 6, 2024, two of them fatal." MERS is an often-severe respiratory infection caused by the MERS…...
Second cluster reported in Uganda's Ebola Sudan outbreak
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (484+ words) A second illness cluster has been identified in Uganda's Ebola Sudan outbreak, with the latest cases linked to the recently reported death of a 4-year-old boy from the virus, officials from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa…...
Two fatal probable cases reported in Uganda's Ebola Sudan outbreak
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (603+ words) An investigation into Uganda's latest Ebola Sudan patient, a 4-year-old boy who recently died, revealed that his mother and newborn sibling died a few weeks earlier from likely Ebola virus infections, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said…...
Probe of febrile illness clusters in DR Congo points to malaria, other factors
11+ mon, 5+ day ago (578+ words) US Army Southern European Task Force, Africa / Flickr cc In ongoing unexplained febrile illness clusters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the number of illnesses continues to grow, and though tests continue to rule out Ebola and Marburg…...
USAID funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (931+ words) USAID / Flickr cc The Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid delivered through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and the subsequent shutdown and dismantling of the agency altogether, has sent shockwaves throughout the community of people working on tuberculosis…...