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Risk of severe disease and hospitalization significantly lower in Omicron infection compared to prior variants: Discovery Health

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NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Summary of findings: Vaccine effectiveness: The two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination provides 70% protection against severe complications of COVID-19 requiring hospitalization,...

DRC’s 13th Ebola outbreak could be declared over tomorrow

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NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Beni health zone (North Kivu), the 13th EVD outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could be declared over...

Elimination of transmission of onchocerciasis, or river blindness in Niger

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NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews It was announced last Thursday at Expo 2020 Dubai that Niger is preparing the requisite paperwork for WHO verification and pending certification, and the country is now...

Monkeypox outbreak declared in Maniema, DRC

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NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The interim governor of Maniema, Afani Idrissa Mangala, declared this past Thursday, December 09, 2021, a monkeypox outbreak  in the province of the Democratic Republic...

Ebola outbreak update: More than 30 days since last positive case

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NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in the North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which was declared on October 8, two...

Nigeria Omicron case count now 6, Delta remains the dominant variant

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NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Three additional cases of the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529 SARS-CoV-2 lineage) were reported by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), bringing the total cases...

Cholera kills 10 in South Kivu in recent days

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NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the chief medical officer of the Kumbi Lulenge health zone has reported a cholera outbreak that...

Malaria cases, deaths up in 2020, Thanks in part to pandemic disruptions

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NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The World Health Organization (WHO) reports an increase in reported malaria cases and deaths linked in part to disruptions in the provision of malaria prevention, diagnosis...

CDC issues travel notice for Nigeria due to monkeypox

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NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Nigeria has reported 23 confirmed monkeypox cases and 79 total cases in 2021 to date. Confirmed cases  have been reported  in the following states: Delta (7), Lagos...

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Ghana yellow fever update: 70 confirmed cases, 35 deaths

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NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on the yellow fever outbreak in Ghana, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports from 15 October to 27 November 2021, 202 suspected cases of yellow fever...