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WHO urges caution after dog catches monkeypox
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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
