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WHO: Tanzania not sharing information on suspected Ebola
The WHO said it had learned on 10 September of a suspected case of Ebola in Dar es Salaam, and information emerged that this patient's contacts had been quarantined.
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World Suicide Prevention Day: WHO calls for more suicide prevention strategies
The WHO says the total number of countries with strategies to prevent suicide are at just 38, which is still far too few and governments need to commit to establishing them.
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WHO says eradicating malaria 'can be done', but first aim is to control it
Launching the findings of a three-year long analysis of the global fight against malaria, WHO experts said that while ending the mosquito-borne disease “can be done”, it’s not yet possible to put a price tag or target date on achieving eradication.
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Burundi starts Ebola vaccines for health workers -WHO
Burundi has had no reported cases of the deadly haemorrhagic fever, but the viral disease has been spreading in eastern Congo since August 2018 in an epidemic that has now killed at least 1,800 people.
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WHO says e-cigarettes, 'smoke-free' products do not help reduce cancer
The WHO report said the industry hoped to win respectability through manipulative messages such as claiming their products were part of a “harm reduction” strategy, even though cigarettes still account for 97% of the global tobacco market.
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Congolese Ebola victim may have entered Rwanda and Uganda -WHO
The woman was one of almost 1,700 victims of the current 11- month outbreak of the highly contagious disease, which the WHO upgraded to an international health emergency on Wednesday and which has so far been effectively confined to the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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DR Congo Ebola outbreak 'health emergency' of international concern - WHO
Those included the H1N1, or swine flu, the pandemic of 2009, the spread of poliovirus in 2014, the Ebola epidemic that devastated parts of West Africa from 2014 to 2016 and the surge of the Zika virus in 2016.
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20 million children miss out on life-saving vaccines, UN warns
In a report on global immunisation coverage, the UN agencies found that vaccination levels are stagnating, notably in poor countries or areas of conflict.
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WHO panel decides not to declare international Ebola emergency
Such a declaration would risk creating restrictions on travel or trade “that could severely harm the economy in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” Aavitsland said.
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Family sent back to DR Congo after 2 die of Ebola in Uganda
The cases marked the first time the virus has crossed an international border since the current outbreak began in Congo last August.
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One in four Ebola cases undetected in Congo - WHO
Some 2,025 cases and 1,357 deaths have been recorded since the epidemic began in August in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
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WHO recognises 'burnout' as medical condition
WHO defines burnout as 'a syndrome conceptualised as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed'.
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Congo registers record of 27 new Ebola cases in one day
The previous record was 110 confirmed cases a couple of weeks ago.
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How to aid your child's early development
A table recommendations for the World Health Organisation (WHO) for good health and development of children under five years of age.
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Measles cases rose nearly four-fold in first quarter 2019 - WHO
Higher rates of the preventable but contagious disease have been recorded in all regions, the United Nations agency said in a statement, appealing for better vaccination coverage.
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121 killed, nearly 600 wounded in Libya fighting: WHO
Fighting in Tripoli has killed 121 people and wounded 561 since commander Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive earlier this month to take the Libyan capital.
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Mozambique to start cholera vaccinations next week after cyclone
With tens of thousands of displaced people moved to makeshift camps, relief efforts have increasingly focused on containing outbreaks of waterborne and infectious diseases.
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WHO forum pitches for universal health care in Africa
Countries south of the Sahara account for roughly half of the five million children around the world who each year die before their fifth birthday, while 40% of people with the AIDS virus in Africa still do not have access to HIV drugs.
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WHO says aiming to halt DRC Ebola outbreak within six months
The ongoing Ebola outbreak, the 10th in DRC’s history, emerged in North Kivu in August 2018 and then spread to neighbouring Ituri province.
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WHO launches strategy to fight 'inevitable' flu pandemics
WHO's new strategy, for 2019 through 2030, aims to prevent seasonal influenza, control the virus's spread from animals to humans and prepare for the next pandemic.
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Turn it down! Millennials' music habit puts their hearing at risk - UN
Already 466 million people worldwide have debilitating hearing loss, up from 360 million in 2010 and the figure is expected to nearly double to 900 million, says WHO.
