NewsDesk @bactiman63 Ghana Health Service announced this week the end of the Lassa fever outbreak which began in February. On Friday, 24 February 2023, the Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate was...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Ghana Health Service (GHS) reported today of two confirmed Lassa fever cases from the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research on Friday. Both cases reside in Accra. The...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that the African country of Ghana has joined the list of countries reporting monkeypox infection among humans in the African region. On...

The pneumococcal meningitis outbreak in Ghana has now taken 36 lives from the more than 170 people infected and the World Health Organization (WHO) has arrived in an effort to help the country contain...

The cholera outbreak that started in June 2014 is still on. As of 5 October 2014 (week 40), a total of 20,955 cases with 16 deaths (case fatality rate of 0.8%) were reported from 101 out of the 216 districts...

A cholera outbreak in Ghana, which has affected thousands of people to date, has caused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue an advisory for travelers to the West African country. According...

In a follow-up to a report last week, the cholera outbreak in Ghana has increased both in number of cases and in death toll, according to a Reuters report Friday. The Ghana Health Service (GHS) say the...

Poor sanitation and overcrowded health facilities are being blamed for a cholera outbreak in Ghana’s capital city of Accra, according to an AFP report via ReliefWeb. The outbreak of cholera, which...