NITEROI — Since Rio de Janeiro declared a public health emergency after an outbreak of dengue fever last month, the city has ramped up testing capacities, opened up a dozen dengue health centers and trained medical staff to attend to the ever-growing needs of its population. But in Rio’s sister city of Niteroi, just across … Read more
HARARE, Zimbabwe — These days, Catherine Mangosho locks her 3-year-old grandson in the house for hours on end in an attempt to shield him from a deadly cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe. The virulent bacterial disease is killing the young and the old in the southern African country, with health authorities reporting more than 150 suspected … Read more
LONDON — Health ministers in the Western Pacific nominated a surgeon from Tonga, Dr. Saia Ma’u Piukala, to lead the World Health Organization’s regional office at a meeting in Manila on Tuesday. Piukala’s nomination for WHO’s top job in the Western Pacific comes months after the U.N. health agency fired its previous director, Dr. Takeshi … Read more
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa has culled about 7.5 million chickens in an effort to contain dozens of outbreaks of two separate strains of avian influenza that threatened to create a shortage of eggs and poultry for consumers, the government and national poultry association said Tuesday. At least 205,000 chickens have died from … Read more
Gatwick Airport, London’s second-busiest, is limiting flights this week, partly because of an outbreak of COVID-19 within air traffic control ByThe Associated Press September 26, 2023, 7:07 AM FILE – Passengers walk into the Departures entrance at the North Terminal of Gatwick Airport near Crawley, just south of London, Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Gatwick Airport, … Read more
DERNA, Libya — The United Nations Help Mission in Libya warned Monday that an outbreak of ailments within the nation’s northeast, the place floods have killed over 11,000 folks, might create “a second devastating disaster,” with Libyan authorities reporting the unfold of diarrhea amongst over 100 individuals who drank contaminated water. In an announcement, the … Read more
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh is combating a file outbreak of dengue fever, with consultants saying a scarcity of a coordinated response is inflicting extra deaths from the mosquito-transmitted illness. The World Well being Group not too long ago warned that ailments corresponding to dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever brought on by mosquito-borne viruses are … Read more