NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews South Africa health officials reported the first human rabies case of 2022. Rabies was confirmed in a four-year-old child from the Eastern Cape Province. The child was...

Dispelling stories on social media that a Lusaka man died from Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) contracted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Minister of Health Dr Chitalu Chilufya said the patient in...

The Zambian government says 17 cases have been confirmed following the recent outbreak of dysentery at a girls-only technical school in the Lusaka Metropolitan Province. Although 84 suspected cases...

In a follow-up on the cholera outbreak in Zambia, the cholera outbreak in Zambia continues to escalate. During the past week, an additional 613 cases were reported. As of 8 January 2018, a cumulative...

Since the cholera outbreak began in Lusaka district, Zambia in early October, some 1,550 cases and 41 deaths have been reported through Dec. 29, according to a Facebook post by Zambia President, Edgar...

Zambia has recorded a decline in the incidence of malaria from 407 cases per 1000 population in 2014, to 336 cases per 1000 population in 2015, according to the Republic of Zambia Ministry of Health. Permanent...