Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Burundi officials detect polio outbreak linked to vaccine

Health officials in Burundi have declared an outbreak of polio linked to the vaccine, the first time the paralytic disease has been detected in the East African country for more than three decades.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Tanzania probes mystery illness after five die

Tanzania has dispatched a team of health experts to investigate a mysterious disease that has claimed the lives of five people, the government said.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Cambodian girl dies from bird flu

An eleven-year-old girl in Cambodia has died from bird flu, the country's first fatality from the virus in years, health authorities said.

Obstetrics & gynaecology

1 in 5 pregnant people found to lack measles immunity

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that one in five newborn babies may not have measles antibodies passed down from their ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Explaining the Malawi cholera outbreak

Malawi's worsening cholera crisis is the result of long-term neglect of the country's water supplies and water testing urgently needed, specialists say.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Nigeria confirms diphtheria outbreak; 25 dead in one state

Nigerian health authorities confirmed an outbreak of diphtheria Friday and reported that 25 people, most of them children, have died so far in one of the worst-hit states in the country's north.

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