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Zambia reports cholera outbreak

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 On 21 January 2023, a male aged 22 from Kamtsekelo village, Zambia presented to Chikoma Health Centre (HC) with Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) and dehydration. On the same day, a 30-year-old...

Zambia schistosomiasis outbreak in Kapululira, Chirundu has resolved: Health Minister

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Schistosomiasis, or Bilharzia outbreak that was first reported on April 7 and ultimately affected some 150 schoolchildren in Chirundu district has been resolved, according to...

South Africa reports first human rabies case of 2022 in Eastern Cape

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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...

Ebola vaccine, ERVEBO, approved in 4 African countries

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Merck announced Friday that four African countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Burundi, Ghana, and Zambia, have approved the Ebola Zaire Vaccine, ERVEBO. Approvals by these...

Africa: CDC issues travel notice for 15 countries due to polio outbreaks

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) renewed their polio travel notice for Africa Tuesday. There are polio outbreaks in several countries in Africa....

Polio cases reported in Zambia, Chad and Togo

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Circulating vaccine-derived polio virus type cases have been confirmed in 10 African countries through Oct. 16 this year. Now the World Health Organization (WHO) is...

Schistosomiasis treatment may be a cost-effective way to reduce HIV infections

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Of the 34 million people worldwide with HIV, and the 200 million with schistosomiasis, the majority live in Africa– where millions of people are simultaneously infected with both diseases. Now, researchers...

Zambia Minister of Health: ‘There is no Ebola Virus Disease case in Zambia’

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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...

New dysentery and bilharzia outbreaks around Zambian capital

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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...

Fresh FMD outbreak hits 100 cattle in north-eastern Zambia

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By Oscar Nkala Tissue samples taken from at least 100 cattle have tested positive for infection as a new outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) spreads across north-eastern Zambia. In a disease...