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...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that a number of countries in Africa are experiencing measles outbreaks and says all travelers to Africa, including...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the recent Lassa fever cases reported in England (HERE and HERE), the World Health Organization (WHO) provided more details in a statement released Monday. On 9...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Some 459 cases of measles have been recorded in Mali since the beginning of January, in the regions of Sikasso, Kayes, Koulikoro, Ségou, Mopti and the District of Bamako, said Tuesday,...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Just 14* human cases of Guinea worm disease occurred worldwide in 2021, drawing nearer to the goal of global eradication, The Carter Center announced Wednesday. It is...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice this week concerning travel to Africa due to measles outbreaks in more than a dozen...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Government officials in the governorate of Mopti are reporting seven human Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) deaths, according to Swiss Info report (computer...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 Nigeria The World Health Organization (WHO) is reporting a three-fold increase in yellow fever cases in 2019, compared to 2018. There have been cases reported in parts of the...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The World Health Organization (WHO) reports being notified of three yellow fever cases in Mali, a landlocked country in West Africa. According to the WHO report,...

Reductions in malaria cases have stalled after several years of decline globally, according to the new World malaria report 2018. For the second consecutive year, the annual report produced by WHO reveals...