Europe has seen a big surge in measles cases in 2017, which the World Health Organization says is a tragedy after a record low of 5,273 cases in 2016. Cases increased four-fold, with more than 20,000...
The Veterinary Services Department is working at stopping stray dogs from giving birth as a means to fight the spread of rabies. According to the service, stray dogs are a major cause of rabies...
Three people have died of rabies in the Ashanti Region since the beginning of the year, the regional directorate of Veterinary Services has said. It added that the figure could be high as many cases...
Nurses at Nyonkoko Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) in Sherigu, a suburb of Bolgatanga Municipality in the Upper East Region, have resorted to abandoning night work, leaving...
Syria's Raqa once thrived on the banks of the gushing Euphrates River, but dire shortages in the Islamic State group stronghold are forcing desperate civilians to risk their lives for water. The...
Two Malaysian children have died after contracting rabies, the country's first such deaths in almost two decades, as authorities battle a rare outbreak of the disease, officials said Wednesday. A...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has introduced an online reporting system called Safety Watch System (SWS), to enable health workers to report on safety issues related to drugs, vaccines and other...
Fifteen children died in South Sudan after receiving contaminated measles vaccines that had not been properly refrigerated, and were mixed using the same syringe for four days. In addition to the...
Fifteen children died in a South Sudanese village last month after being administered with contaminated measles vaccines, the country's health minister said Friday. During the vaccination of 300...
The Democratic Republic of Congo has approved using an experimental Ebola vaccine to combat an outbreak of the virus in the northeast, the government said Monday. "The DRC accepts the use of vaccines...
Italy has recorded nearly three times as many measles cases so far this year than for all of 2016 The government in Italy has ruled that children must be vaccinated against 12 common illnesses before...
An unlicenced Ebola vaccine could soon be tested in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo hit by an outbreak of the virus, the World Health Organization said Thursday. There is no...
Dr. Senanu Kwesi Djokoto, Municipal Director of the Ghana Health Service, has noted that less than 50 percent of children born in the Ho Municipality got immunized against vaccine-preventable...
The Asokore-Mampong Municipality has been recording poor immunization coverage – ranked the lowest nationwide. In year 2014, it achieved 26 percent coverage, rising to 64.3 percent the following...
El Nino, the cyclical climatic phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean, is linked to shifts in cholera cases in Africa, providing an early warning that could save lives, scientists said Monday. During the...
Nigeria needs as many as 800,000 doses of the type C meningitis vaccine to deal with the outbreak Nigeria does not have enough vaccine doses to deal with a deadly meningitis outbreak because they are...
Measles is making its way across Europe at an alarming rate, shocking new figures reveal. Cases of the highly contagious infection have tripled in Italy so far this year, while Romania has also...
The campaign, one of the largest ever conduct in Africa, will run from march 25-28 The World Health Organization and the United Nations children ‘s fund are planning a massive immunization campaign...
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...
The Jirapa District Health Directorate detected one suspected measles and two yellow fever cases in 2016. Specimen from the patients had been sent to Accra for testing and results yet to be received,...
