Health

The number of deaths from cholera in Malawi rose to 183 at the end of October from 110 at the beginning of the month, the health ministry announced on Monday. “The rate of infections has been rising, with the cumulative number of cases since the outbreak began in March now …

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Merck & Co said on Tuesday it was planning to produce and donate investigational Sudan Ebola virus vaccine to a global non-profit organization’s research program in Uganda, which is facing an outbreak of the disease. The investigational vaccine that will be donated to IAVI is similar to Merck’s Ervebo vaccine, …

Ugandan police say at least 11 people, among them students, were killed and six others are in a critical condition after a dormitory caught fire at a school for visually impaired children in Mukono, east of the capital, Kampala. The injured are being treated at Herona Hospital, police said. Investigations …

Ugandan health authorities announced that nine more people have tested positive for the Ebola virus at the country’s national referral hospital, Mulago, in the capital Kampala. This brings the number of positive cases at the facility’s isolation unit to 14. Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng said the positive cases …

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni declared three-week lockdown in two high-risk districts as the country battles a rise in Ebola infections. “Given the gravity of the problem and to prevent further spread and protect lives and livelihoods, the government is taking extra measures that require action from all of us,” President Museveni …

Kenya has reported an outbreak of cholera in six out of 47 counties after recording 61 cases of the diarrhoeal disease. Thirteen people were admitted to hospitals and eight others had already been discharged while 40 were being treated as outpatients, the health ministry said. The ministry says drought in …

The number of cholera contaminations continues to increase in Haiti, according to a new bulletin from the Ministry of Public Health obtained on Tuesday. The new figures fuel fears of a new disaster in this country already plunged into a humanitarian and security crisis. As of Monday, 606 suspected and …

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Sunday pledged to invest $1.2 billion to help eradicate polio from the planet once and for all, at an international health conference in Berlin. “The eradication of polio is within reach. But the disease remains a threat (…)”, estimated Bill Gates, co-president of …