He said Africa cannot achieve universal health coverage or pandemic preparedness without the ability to finance, produce, and govern its own health systems and countermeasures.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has made four emergency requests to the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision for cholera vaccines as the country grapples with a rising death toll ...

Some of the victims of cholera outbreak at Ligega health center in Ugunja Siaya county. Four people have died while 23 others hospitalized in the county following the outbreak of the disease. PIC BY ...

Poor access to safe water has exacerbated a cholera outbreak rampaging across Syria's war-battered provinces, where local authorities are struggling to contain the spread with chlorine tablets and ...

As a pandemic swept through Europe in 1831, a riot broke out in Königsberg. "Groups of people who did not agree with the cholera regulations assembled [on July 28] for the funeral of a journeyman ...

Kinshasa: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has declared the end of its 16th Ebola outbreak. Congolese Health Minister Roger Kamba said, To ...

Cholera epidemics, caused by waterborne bacteria, may subside and explode because the number of viruses that infect the bacteria rise and fall, a new study suggests. Cholera, which causes severe and ...

FILE PHOTO: Buildings are seen at sunset, almost a year after the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Wuhan BEIJING (Reuters) -Detection in the Chinese city of Wuhan of a bacteria ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Following 50 guests being diagnosed with a virus at the lavish Weston Hotel linked to ...

Dr. Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine, noted bacteriologist, whom Lord Lister termed a savior of mankind because of his researches into the causes of cholera, died here suddenly at the age of 70. Dr.

The movement of people can also spread pathogens to new regions. Different countries need to co-ordinate a response as ...