Health

Health authorities in Ghana have confirmed the first-ever death from monkeypox, as the virus wreaks havoc in the West African country. The infected person was a military officer who died three days after going to hospital in north-eastern Ghana. Thirteen people believed to have been in contact with the deceased …

Indian authorities on Monday announced the death of a man infected with monkeypox, who recently returned from the United Arab Emirates, which could constitute the first fatal case of the disease in Asia. The health ministry in Kerala state in southern India said tests on the 22-year-old victim who died …

Sudan’s Ministry of Health on Sunday confirmed the presence of monkeypox in the country after a patient tested positive for the virus. The patient is a 16-year-old student from West Darfur state, the country’s health ministry said. The World Health Organization (WHO) last week declared the monkeypox outbreak a global …

A 34-year-old Spaniard, who had been in coma since late April after contracting an infection following cosmetic surgery, died on Sunday, Spanish newspaper Diario de Navarra reports. It is in the clinic of the European Medical Aesthetic Center (Ceme) in Madrid where the patient, originally from Palma de Mallorca, underwent …

U.S. health officials announced Wednesday that soil and water samples taken from Mississippi contain bacteria that cause a rare but serious disease called melioidosis. They thus alerted doctors in the country, asking them to be vigilant in the face of possible symptoms of this disease in patients. Two individuals living …

New York City on Tuesday asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to rename monkeypox, a name deemed stigmatizing and which risks pushing patients to isolate themselves rather than to seek treatment. New York City Health Commissioner, Ashwin Vasan, in a letter to WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said …

Ghana has recorded one more death from the Marburg virus bringing to three the number of deaths since the outbreak of the virus began here. The victim is a relative of one of the first two cases. Marburg is a highly infectious disease in the same family as Ebola and …

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Friday said it approved the use of a human smallpox vaccine to expand its use against the spread of monkeypox. “The EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended extending the indication for the smallpox vaccine Imvanex to include the protection …

The United States recorded its first case of polio on Thursday for almost a decade, according to New York State health authorities. A person residing in the county of Rockland, 48 km north of Manhattan, tested positive for the disease, his case indicating “a chain of transmission coming from an …

US President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, the White House announced. However, he only shows “mild symptoms” of the disease. The 79-year-old Democrat has “started taking Paxlovid”, Pfizer’s anti-Covid pill, and will isolate himself at the White House until he tests negative again, his spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre …