NewsDesk @bactiman63 UNICEF reported earlier this month: Cholera doesn’t know borders. Despite being preventable and easily treatable, children continue to suffer from the potentially fatal disease. After...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Mali has become the 17th country to receive the World Health Organization’s validation of the elimination of trachoma as a public health problem. The Carter Center, Helen...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The West African country of Benin has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced today. This contagious bacterial infection, which...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provided care to 674 victims of sexual violence in the last two weeks...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Government officials in Zimbabwe report cholera cases are on the rise, Since the first cholera case was recorded in February in the town of Chegutu in northwest Zimbabwe, 834 cases...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reissued a travel notice Friday for Equatorial Guinea due to the ongoing Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak. Since the declaration...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), a dengue fever outbreak has been reported in the Afar Region in northeastern Ethiopia. Over...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Two countries in Africa, on opposite sides of the continent–Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania, have been battling Marburg Virus Disease outbreaks since February and March, respectively. Marburg...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The World Health Organization released the following situation updates on the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreaks simultaneously in the African countries of Equatorial Guinea and...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 A total of 329 new cases of the cholera epidemic including 11 deaths were recorded in two weeks in two health zones including Katuba and Kisanga, towns located west of the city of...