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Monkeypox belongs to the Poxviridae family of viruses, which includes smallpox. Picture: CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith

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WHO urges caution after dog catches monkeypox

By AFP

A first case of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox, between two men and their Italian greyhound living together in Paris, was reported last week in the...

  • Monkeypox belongs to the Poxviridae family of viruses, which includes smallpox. Picture: CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith

    NICD confirms South Africa's first monkeypox case

    In a statement released on Thursday, the NICD said the patient was a 30-year-old male from Gauteng with no recent travel history.

    56 days ago
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    'The suffering is enormous,' says WHO as it urges mental health action

    The World Health Organization on Friday called on all nations to invest more in mental health, saying "the suffering is enormous" and has been made worse by the COVID pandemic.

    62 days ago
  • FILE: Deputy President David Mabuza. Picture: @DDMabuza/Twitter

    Mabuza says govt will have a chance to consider W.H.O's pandemic treaty

    A negotiating body is consulting member states and international organisations on a working draft to be considered at a meeting of the World Health Assembly later this year.

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

    NICD working with WHO, Unicef to respond to measles outbreak in Gauteng

    The Health Department on Monday reported three cases in Tshwane and one on the west rand.

    72 days ago
  • A woman and her child, both infected with monkeypox await treatment at the quarantine area of the centre of the International medical NGO Doctors Without Borders in Zomea Kaka in the Central African Republic on 18 October 2018.

    WHO: 780 monkeypox outbreak cases

    The World Health Organization said Sunday that 780 laboratory-confirmed monkeypox cases had been reported to it from 27 non-endemic countries, while maintaining that the global risk level was moderate.

    73 days ago
  • Monkeypox belongs to the Poxviridae family of viruses, which includes smallpox. Picture: CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith

    No monkeypox cases detected in South Africa: NICD

    NICD experts have given an update on the infectious disease since two cases were confirmed by WHO in the United Kingdom on 13 May.

    85 days ago
  • FILE: A handout photograph taken and released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on 24 May 2021, shows the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivering a speech during the 74th World Health Assembly, at the WHO headquarters, in Geneva. Picture: Christopher Black/World Health Organization/AFP

    Tedros Ghebreyesus: From 'child of war' to two-term WHO chief

    The director-general had received more than two-thirds of secret-ballot votes cast, as needed to be appointed, but the UN health agency did not provide a precise breakdown.

    85 days ago
  • A community volunteer wearing personal protective equipment disinfects an area before conducting a test for the COVID-19 coronavirus in a compound during a COVID-19 lockdown in Pudong district in Shanghai on 17 April 2022. LIU JIN / AFP

    World remains unprepared to face new pandemics: panel

    A year ago, an independent expert panel presented a damning report to the World Health Organization's main annual assembly complaining that poor coordination and bad decisions had allowed the COVID pandemic to swell to such a catastrophic scale.

    92 days ago
  • Protesters hold placards as they gather in front of the parliament building in Wellington on February 8, 2022, during a demonstration against Covid restrictions, inspired by a similar demonstration in Canada. Picture: Marty Melville / AFP.

    COVID pandemic killed 13 to 17 million in 2020/21, says WHO

    The COVID-19 pandemic killed 13.3 to 16.6 million people in 2020 and 2021, the WHO estimated - up to triple the number of deaths attributed directly to the disease.

    104 days ago
  • FILE: An elderly woman receives her COVID-19 vaccine jab with the start of the second phase of South Africa's vaccine rollout on 17 May 2021. Picture: @GautengHealth/Twitter

    Two Omicron sub-variants are driving SA's COVID spike, says WHO

    Two new Omicron sub-variants are driving an increase in reported COVID cases in South Africa, the World Health Organization said, stressing the importance of testing to monitor virus mutations and spread.

    105 days ago
  •  In this file photo taken on 2 October 2021 demonstrators rally against anti-abortion and voter suppression laws at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas. Picture: AFP

    Access to safe abortions saves lives: WHO chief

    The head of the World Health Organization says that access to safe abortions saves lives, after a leaked draft ruling indicated the US Supreme Court was mulling ending nationwide legal abortions.

    105 days ago
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    DoH urges parents to fully vaccinate their children to prevent measles outbreak

    The Department of Health is urging parents to take their children to be vaccinated as chief director for child health programme, Dr Lesley Bamford, states that there needs to be a 95% full vaccination rate to be confident that there will be no outbreak or rise in cases.

    107 days ago
  • Health workers at Matanda health centre in the Democratic Republic of Congo receiving the Ebola vaccination on 15 February 2021. Picture: Twitter/@WHOAFRO

    DR Congo starts vaccinating against deadly Ebola outbreak

    It's the 14th outbreak of the killer virus in the country since 1976, including six since 2018.

    112 days ago
  • This handout photograph taken on April 19, 2022 and released by the Indian Press Information Bureau (PIB) shows India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) with the Director-General of World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (L) during the foundation stone laying ceremony of WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (GCTM), in Jamnagar in India's Gujarat state. Picture: PIB / AFP

    WHO launches traditional medicine hub in India

    The GCTM knowledge hub is intended to create a body of reliable evidence and data on traditional medicine practices and products to help inform standards and the cost-effective use of methods that go outside conventional medicine.

    120 days ago
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    WHO monitors hepatitis of unknown origin in UK children

    Britain initially reported 10 cases of severe acute hepatitis in Scotland to WHO on 5 April, before reporting a total of 74 cases across the country three days later, the UN agency said.

    124 days ago
  • FILE: Employees in cleanroom suits test the procedures for the manufacturing of the messenger RNA (mRNA) for the COVID-19 vaccine at the new manufacturing site of German company BioNTech on 27 March 2021 in Marburg, central Germany. Picture: Thomas Lohnes/AFP

    COVID far from becoming endemic, says WHO

    COVID-19 is far from becoming an endemic disease and could still trigger large epidemics around the globe, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

    125 days ago
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    WHO warns of virulent COVID variant risk

    The WHO said the most likely way forward was that the severity of disease caused by the virus would wane over time, due to greater public immunity.

    140 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.

    WHO sounds alarm on TB fight funds

    The coronavirus pandemic disrupted access to TB services, the WHO said, as it called for countries to restore pre-pandemic services, especially for children and adolescents.

    149 days ago
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