Swine Flu – Drugs will be administered to carriers, as well as those quarantined for the endemic swine flu disease. Ghana Education Service (GES) issued a statement after a meeting with the...
The medical terms may have been ambiguous for the layman but the Influenza H1N1 said to have led to the demise of students at KUMACA is called Swine Flu. The Ghana Health Service has warned of an...
Some parents who “mysteriously” lost their wards at the Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACA) are contesting claims by the Ministry of Health that they died as a result of swine flu...
Government says it would bear the funeral expenses of four students of Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACA) who died as a result of the swine flu outbreak. The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu...
The Veterinary Services Department intends to ban the transfer of pigs following reports of an outbreak of Swine flu in parts of the country. According to the department, data available to them...
Vaccines delivered via a painless, throw-away patch could one day eliminate the need for needle-and-syringe flu injections, researchers said Wednesday after completing a preliminary trial. Equipped...
South Korea has imposed a temporary nationwide ban on poultry transportation as it struggles to contain a fresh outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N6 virus, which has led to the slaughter of some...
Coming down with the flu, bronchitis or pneumonia can dramatically raise the risk of a heart attack -- up to 17-fold -- in the days and weeks following the infection, researchers said Monday. The...
All poultry in England will be allowed outside again from Thursday, having been kept indoors to protect them from an infectious strain of bird flu. The government has carried out a new assessment of...
Japan deployed hundreds of soldiers to help cull more than 280,000 chickens on Friday, officials said as they try to contain further outbreaks of a highly contagious strain of avian flu. The latest...
The UN's food agency on Friday urged China to step up efforts to contain and eliminate a strain of bird flu which has killed scores of people this year. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...
Bill Gates says it’s time to redirect some of the money the world spends on weapons to prepare for a looming threat: terrorists with pathogens. He’s warning that the threat of bio-terrorism is...
China is experiencing its deadliest outbreak of the H7N9 bird-flu strain since it first appeared in humans in 2013, killing 79 people in January alone and spurring several cities to suspend live...
Accra, Dec. 30, GNA - According to the American English Language Dictionary: Fourth Edition. 2000, harmattan may have been originated from the Arabic word: HARAM. This literally means; the evil...
About 190,000 ducks have been culled in the Netherlands as the authorities try to prevent the spread of bird flu across northern European countries. The slaughter involved six farms, following the...
August 1-7 is the World Breastfeeding Week (WBW), a week set aside to draw attention to the importance and benefits of breastfeeding.
The slogan and theme for WBW 2016 is breastfeeding: A key to...
Niger has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus among poultry.
The disease, which continues to spread across the country, is gradually gaining foothold across West...
Health authorities in the Tema Metropolis have confirmed the outbreak of birdflu in the area. At least 24,000 birds are being examined this afternoon in the latest outbreak of the influenza. A...
A study published in the September edition of the Lancet Global Health Journal shows that the Africa Region, has the lowest tobacco use in pregnant women in the world.
Southeast Asia has the highest...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said between 12 and 13 August, a total of 152 new cases of Ebola Virus Disease (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 76 deaths...
