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One new case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1) was reported in the past week in Madagascar, with onset of paralysis on 22 August from Sud-Ouest province, according to the Global...

The insect transmitted parasitic infection, kala-azar, or visceral leishmaniasis (VL) has taken more than 150 lives in South Sudan, according to a recent local media report.  United Nations Office for...

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More than 3.7 billion people under the age of 50 – or 67% of the population – are infected with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), according to WHO’s first global estimates of HSV-1 infection published...

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Drug-resistant forms of Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest species among malaria parasites, are able to infect the type of mosquito that is the main transmitter of malaria in Africa, according to findings...

Likely due to massive civil unrest in war torn Libya, scores of people in the capital city of Tripoli have sought medical attention for leishmaniasis, a parasitic infection transmitted to people via the...

In a follow-up report on the death of a Nigerian individual who reportedly demonstrated symptoms resembling a hemorrhagic fever like Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), World Health Organization (WHO) officials...

Officials at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) announced today that 15 unnamed people have been quarantined because they had contact with a patient that had symptoms resembling Ebola...

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For the first time in 19 months there were no Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases reported in any of the three West African countries during the week ending Oct. 4. Case incidence has remained below 10 confirmed...

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In a follow-up to a report last month from Senegal, the French language news source, RFI reports that the number of chikungunya cases reported from the Kédougou region has reached 20. The cases are...

More great news in the world of polio eradication… Earlier this week it was reported that Nigeria has interrupted transmission of wild poliovirus and is no longer a polio endemic country. Now,...