NewsDesk @bactiman63 The National Monkeypox Coordination has reported over 6,900 cases of Monkeypox disease, including 328 deaths, since the beginning of the year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The World Health Organization (WHO) reported Friday that the number of cholera cases in 2022 more than doubled compared to the number seen in 2021. According to the data, 472,697...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued or updated travel notices for three countries in Africa and Asia experiencing outbreaks of diphtheria. In Nigeria, seven...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The coordinating doctor of the Leprosy and tuberculosis program in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Dr Freddy Birembano reports that in 2022, more than 10,000 cases...

By: Chinonso Nwosu Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is the second most populous country in Africa after Nigeria, and it houses 116.5 million people, making it the 13th...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) reported six additional confirmed Lassa fever cases during the week ending September 3, bringing the total confirmed cases...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Medical director of Saint Joseph Hospital in Kamanyola village in the Nyangezi health zone in Walungu territory in South Kivu province, Masiya Charles, said a cholera epidemic has...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The head of the Provincial Health Division (DPS) in Kasaï-Oriental, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) said the number of measles cases has increased significantly even in health...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 A cholera epidemic is declared in the health zone of Shabunda in the province of South Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The territorial authority asks its citizens...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Diphtheria is a serious bacterial infection, which the causative agent is Corynebacterium diphtheriae, that usually affects the mucous membranes of the nose and throat and sometimes...