According to a recently published World Health Organization (WHO) Situation Report, a convergence of factors is threatening the region with large outbreaks affecting millions as bacterial meningitis season...

Health officials in Uíge Province in northwestern Angola have reported 275,000 malaria cases for the first 11 months of 2017, according to Agencia Angola Press. In addition, 700 malaria-related deaths...

Officials with the Namibian Ministry of Health are reporting an hepatitis E outbreak in the capital city of  Windhoek. In mid-October, a Windhoek hospital began reporting  patients with signs of acute...

On Wednesday, we reported on the latest on the Nigeria monkeypox outbreak. The next day, the World Health Organization (WHO) offered some additional details on the outbreak. The 61 laboratory confirmed...

In the wild, chimpanzees face any number of dire threats, ranging from poachers to predators to deforestation. That’s why scientists, investigating an outbreak of respiratory disease in a community...

In late November, an outbreak of influenza A H1N1 was reported Kumasi Academy Senior High School in Kumasi City, Ashanti Region in central Ghana. At that time, 13 cases of severe acute respiratory...

Four people from the town of Nyeri have been hospitalized with suspected anthrax after consuming tainted meat, according to a Daily Nation report. The four, two brothers and two neighbors, are admitted...

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported today that the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak in Uganda has been declared over. “Uganda has led an exemplary response. Health authorities and partners,...

Health officials in Sudan are reporting an increase in dengue fever cases during the past two months. According to the Federal Ministry of Health in Sudan, a total of 90 suspected cases including 2 deaths...

Dracunculus medinensis. The “fiery serpent”. Guinea worm. It is set to become the second human disease in history, after smallpox, to be eradicated. It will be the first parasitic disease to be eradicated...