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Ghana Health Service Condemns False Ebola Outbreak Report
The Ghana Health Service has debunked information circulating on social media, suggesting that there is an outbreak of...
Bushmeat Trade Tests Cameroon’s Ebola Prevention
The market in Ambam, a colonial town with brick-red cottages and rusty roofs, near the southern borders with Equatorial...
Leptospirosis Kills One and Strikes Two Others In New York
One person has died and two others have been stricken by an outbreak of leptospirosis - a rare bacterial infection...
Ebola ‘super-Spreaders’ Cause Most Cases
The majority of cases in the world’s largest outbreak of Ebola were caused by a tiny handful of patients, research...
Ebola ‘super-Spreaders’ Cause Most Cases
The majority of cases in the world’s largest outbreak of Ebola were caused by a tiny handful of patients, research...
Disease ‘superspreaders’ Fueled the Ebola Epidemic
Disease 'superspreaders' fueled the spread of the devastating Ebola epidemic in 2014, a new study claims. The West...
Small Percentage of People Spread Most Ebola Cases
Most of the people infected with Ebola in the West Africa epidemic that began in 2014 got sick through contact with a...
Dog Kills 14 Residents In Gomoa Budumburam
Fourteen (14) people have died of rabies at Gomoa Budumburam in the Central Region. The figure could be higher...
Canada Lab Worker May Be Exposed To Ebola
An employee at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg has potentially been exposed to the Ebola...
The Lingering Shadow of Ebola Outbreak In Sierra Leone
The lingering shadow of Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone Hassan sits silently and stares into the distance, he has tired...
15 People Die of Rabies In Ashanti Region
Fifteen people died of rabies in the Ashanti Region, last year the Regional Director of Veterinary Services Department...
Rabies Kills Two Children In Brong Ahafo
Two children died through rabies in 2015 in the Tain District of the Brong-Ahafo Region after they were bitten by dogs....
Typhoid Kills Three In Takoradi
Typhoid fever, an acute illness associated with fever caused by the salmonellatyphi bacteria, killed three out of the...
ECOWAS Sets Up Rapid Response Team To Help Contain Disease Outbreaks
A four-day ECOWAS health resilience training programme to equip selected individuals from the fifteen West African...
Read Mahama’s Full Speech At UN General Assembly
President John Mahama on Wednesday addressed the United Nation’s 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly....
Let Us Show Love To Animals-GSPCA
By D. I Laary, GNA Accra, Aug. 31, GNA - Vast majority of land animals raised for human consumption in Ghana are...
GHS Training on Ebola and Cholera Surveillance Ends
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has held an Ebola and Cholera surveillance and contact tracing training for health...
World Health Organization: Nigeria and Senegal – Model Test Cases for Effective Ebola Control
(Geneva,GNA) – The World Health Organisations (WHO) says Senegal and Nigeria offers a test case for the world on how...
United States Ambassador to the United Nations visits Ebola Stricken Countries
(Accra, GNA) - In a communique released by the United States Embassy in Ghana, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations,...