The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared a global emergency on Coronavirus as the death toll from the disease has risen to 170 in China.
WHO made the declaration on Thursday, saying the disease now represents a risk beyond China, where it emerged last month.
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No fewer than 420 million adults have diabetes, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said, adding that the number has been increasing steadily over the last three decades. WHO said in its Global Report on Diabetes that the global prevalence of adult diabetes has nearly quadrupled since 1980...
Abuja, Nigeria, 28 February 2018 — Nigeria’s Lassa fever outbreak has reached record highs with 317 laboratory confirmed cases, according to figures released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) this week. Although endemic to the West African nation, Lassa fever has never …
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Doris Obinna The World Health Organisation (WHO) has donated 853 motorcycles and other items to the Federal Government to strengthen disease surveillance across the country. The items will be distributed to the 36 states of the federation. Making the donation to the Minister of Health, Prof...
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The Federal Ministry of Health supported by WHO, UNICEF and partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative have quickly lauuched an emergency Polio immunization campaign in Borno, an official said.
The UNICEF Chief of Communication, Doune Porter, said in a statement in Abuja on Friday that...
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No fewer than 62,728 children had been targeted for immunization against the polio virus in Miga Local Government Area of Jigawa during the ongoing polio immunization.
The Information Officer of the Council, Malam Abdullahi Yakubu, disclosed the figure in an interview with the News Agency of...
Over 80 percent of the world’s city dwellers breathe poor quality air, increasing their risk of lung cancer and other life-threatening diseases, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report warned Thursday.
Urban residents in poor countries are by far the worst affected, WHO said, noting...
South Africa confirmed its first case of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in a Columbian man, health authorities said.
The virus, which is causing international alarm after spreading through much of the Americas, was detected in the man on his visit to Johannesburg, Health Minister Aaron...
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Sadly, Zika virus has now assumed menacing dimensions especially in the Americas and Carribean. For instance, in Brazil alone, the virus has affected no less than a million people since the outbreak last year. Furthermore, in recognition of the malignant potentials of Zika virus, the World...
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A rare case of the Zika virus being transmitted through sex, not a mosquito bite, has been reported in the US.
A person in Texas has reportedly become infected with the virus after having sexual contact with an infected person.
The World Health Organization estimates that the virus could...
The World Health Organisation on Thursday announced an end to the latest flare-up of the Ebola virus in Liberia, West Africa.
This is a milestone that marks the first time since the epidemic began in 2013 that there have been no known cases of the disease in 42 days.
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The Federal Government has disclosed that Lassa fever has claimed 41 lives from 93 reported cases in 10 states of the country even as the Senate has summoned the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, over the outbreak of the disease.
With the official records, the Federal Government has also...
The World Health Organisation on Friday announced that a new case of the deadly Ebola virus has discovered in Liberia, which was declared Ebola free in September, this year.
There is one confirmed case,” WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told AFP, without providing further details.
The west...
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