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Nigeria loses more than 53,000 people each year to diseases linked to contaminated food, with nearly 50 million cases of foodborne illness recorded annually and children under five carrying over 80 per cent of the burden, the Federal Government has revealed. Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Iziaq Adekunle Salako, made…
The head of the World Health Organisation visited Uganda this week as a deadly Ebola outbreak that crossed in from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo continued to spread, with both countries now recording a sharp rise in confirmed infections and deaths. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the trip after the global health…
More than 1,100 people are suspected of having contracted the Ebola virus across the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring Uganda, the African Union’s continental health agency has confirmed, raising fears that the outbreak could escalate rapidly across central and east Africa. In a commentary published in the Financial Times on Sunday, the Director…
United Nations agencies have mounted an urgent emergency response to a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, mobilising medical supplies, logistics support, and personnel across multiple affected provinces as the death toll climbs and the virus threatens to breach more urban centres. UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric disclosed the scale…
A special repatriation flight carrying 20 British nationals evacuated from a hantavirus-struck cruise ship landed at Manchester Airport on Sunday, bringing home passengers caught in one of the most unusual public health emergencies to affect a civilian vessel in recent memory. Television footage showed the aircraft touching down at the northwest England airport after…
A landmark study has confirmed that the first malaria vaccine saved thousands of young lives during its initial rollout. Findings published in The Lancet show that the RTS, S vaccine prevented one in eight child deaths among recipients in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi. These results cover four years ending in 2023. Scientists now have proof…
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization’s director-general, arrives in Tenerife today to manage a high-stakes evacuation of the MV Hondius. The cruise ship carries a rare and lethal strain of hantavirus that has already claimed three lives. Spanish health and interior ministers will join the command post to oversee the transfer of roughly 150…
The World Health Organization expects more cases of a rare, human-to-human hantavirus strain to emerge following three deaths on a cruise ship. The MV Hondius became a floating laboratory for the Andes virus after passengers fell ill while crossing the Atlantic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO chief, confirmed five cases and three deaths so far….
Passengers aboard the MV Hondius are now observing strict health protocols similar to those seen during the COVID 19 pandemic as international health authorities investigate a rare hantavirus outbreak linked to multiple deaths on the vessel. The outbreak has drawn global attention after three passengers died and several others fell ill during the ship’s Atlantic…
Three people have died following a suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship travelling between Argentina and Cape Verde, raising urgent questions among global health authorities about how the potentially deadly virus spread among passengers. The World Health Organisation confirmed one case of the virus as of the time of reporting, while stressing that…
