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  • FILE: A 3D graphical representation of a spherical-shaped measles virus particle. Picture: CDC Public Health Image Library.

    Nearly 1,000 Madagascar children dead of measles since October - WHO

    Measles is a highly contagious viral disease that can cause complications including blindness and brain swelling and increase susceptibility to other diseases.

    1275 days ago
  • An elderly man walks in front of a group of people during heavy smog at the Temple of Heaven park in Beijing on 20 December, 2016. Picture: AFP.

    China could lift life expectancy if it meets WHO smog standards - study

    China has vowed to determine the precise impact of air and water pollution on health as part of its efforts to raise average life expectancy to 79 years by 2030 from 76.3 years in 2015.

    1310 days ago
  • Picture: pixabay.com

    WHO looks at standards in 'uncharted water' of gene editing

    The Chinese government last Thursday ordered a temporary halt to research activities for people involved in the editing of human genes, after a Chinese scientist said he had edited the genes of twin babies.

    1348 days ago
  • FILE: A hygienist is seen inside an Ebola Treatment Centre run by The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) on 12 August 2018, in Beni. Picture: AFP

    WHO sees Congo's Ebola outbreak lasting 3-4 months at least

    The most concerning area is the city of Beni in Congo’s North Kivu province where dozens of people who may have been exposed to the deadly disease are hiding from health workers.

    1401 days ago
  • Health workers who facilitate Ebola vaccinations. Picture: WHO.

    WHO: Congo Ebola outbreak could worsen rapidly

    At least 100 people have died in the outbreak, out of 150 cases in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.

    1418 days ago
  •  FILE: Children in Syria being treated at a SAMS-supported hospital in East Ghouta. Picture: @sams_usa/Twitter

    WHO seeks access to Syrians dying from heat, disease in south

    Three out of four public hospitals and health centres in Deraa and Quneitra are closed or only partially functioning.

    1492 days ago
  • FILE: In this handout photograph released by Unicef on 13 May 2018, health workers wear protective equipment as they prepare to attend to suspected Ebola patients at Bikoro Hospital - the epicentre of the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Picture: AFP.

    WHO says 19 dead, 39 infected so far in Congo Ebola outbreak

    The world health body says the current outbreak in the DRC does not meet the criteria for declaring a 'public health event of international concern'.

    1552 days ago
  • A general view of Table Mountain in Cape Town. Picture: Pixabay.com

    Table Mountain goes red for TB awareness

    Table Mountain will be lit red in WHO’s global initiative with Stop TB partnership to light-up several landmarks across the world on TB day.

    1603 days ago
  • A digitally colourised scanning electron microscopic image depicts a grouping of red-coloured, rod-shaped Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria which cause tuberculosis in human beings. Picture: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

    CT sees 24% drop in TB

    JP Smith says while the number of cases has decreased from almost 30,000 in 2010 to under 23,000 in 2018 - it's still alarmingly high.

    1604 days ago
  • FILE: Customers return bags of processed meat from the Germiston Enterprise factory, on 5 March 2018. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN.

    Health Dept to oversee incineration of listeria-linked products

    South Africa is in the grips of what the World Health Organization describes as the worst listeria outbreak in recorded history.

    1618 days ago
  • Picture: Christa Eybers/EWN

    Give women more time to give birth, make choices: WHO

    Among 26 new recommendations, it rejected a traditional benchmark in labour wards worldwide for the dilation of a woman’s cervix at the rate of 1 centimeter per hour.

    1639 days ago
  • FILE: A microscopic view of the listeria bacteria. Picture: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    Health Dept, WHO discuss ways to fight spread of listeriosis

    Listeriosis is a food-borne disease which can be found in soil, water and vegetation.

    1655 days ago
  • FILE: A feeding female 'Anopheles sinensis' mosquito on a human hand. Picture: CDC/James Gathany.

    WHO fears complacency as progress against malaria stalls

    Malaria infected around 216 million people in 91 countries in 2016, an increase of 5 million cases over the previous year, the WHO said in its annual World Malaria Report.

    1718 days ago
  • Picture: Wikimedia Commons.

    WHO: Plague kills 94 in Madagascar

    The outbreak already looks big when compared with the 3,248 cases and 584 deaths reported worldwide from 2010 to 2015.

    1758 days ago
  • FILE: People have coffee in Antananarivo in Madagascar's. Picture: AFP.

    Plague outbreak in Madagascar kills 20 – WHO

    Humans bitten by an infected flea usually develop a bubonic form of plague, which swells lymph nodes and can be treated with antibiotics.

    1778 days ago
  • FILE: Patients suffering from cholera are treated at the Kalemie hospital, in the south-eastern Congolese province of Katanga in 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Over 500 dead as Congo cholera epidemic spreads: WHO

    This year’s epidemic is particularly worrying as it comes as about 1.4 million people have been displaced by violence in the central Kasai region.

    1797 days ago
  • Picture: EWN

    WHO: Tobacco industry blocking anti-smoking moves

    Tobacco companies use domestic and international trade litigation ‘in attempts to block progress on many control measures’, the WHO said.

    1850 days ago
  • World Health Organisation. Picture: UN Photo

    WHO warns of imminent spread of untreatable superbug gonorrhoea

    The WHO estimates 78 million people a year get gonorrhoea, an STD that can infect the genitals, rectum and throat.

    1863 days ago
  • Picture: Facebook.

    WHO: At least 100,000 cholera cases reported in Yemen

    Cholera broke out in Yemen on 27 April and has seen at least 789 deaths.

    1892 days ago
  • New World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a press conference on the day after his election by the World Health Assembly. Picture: AFP

    Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom becomes first African to head WHO

    The former health minister received more than half of the votes in the first round.

    1907 days ago
  • FILE: A man stands next to a tent set up to treat Ebola patients. Picture: AFP

    Fourth person in probable Ebola death in Congo: WHO

    Of the 37 cases discovered since early May, two have been confirmed as Ebola including the latest death, are considered probable and 32 are suspected.

    1909 days ago
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