Two months after recording three cases, Ghana has declared an end to the Marburg virus disease outbreak, a haemorrhagic fever almost as deadly as Ebola. It was the first time.
Health ministers attending the World Health Organization, WHO’s 72nd Regional Committee for Africa in Lome, Togo have approved an eight-year strategy aimed at curbing disease and, responding to health emergencies..
The World Health Organization, WHO, says authorities in Mozambique have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after confirming that a child in the country’s northeastern Tete province has.
A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, prompting health authorities to enforce urgent containment measures just four months after the previous outbreak.