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Which countries have rabies? How to avoid disease after woman dies following Morocco holiday
Metro
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June 19, 2025
Rabies can be fatal if it is not treated immediately (Picture: Getty Images) A British woman has died of rabies after she was ‘scratched’ by a puppy while on holiday in Morocco. Yvonne Ford, 59, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, had what has been...
Rabies hotspots: Where you're most likely to be infected with deadly disease
Birmingham Live
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June 18, 2025
A Briton has died from rabies after being bitten by a stray dog in Morocco, the UK Health Security Agency said. Here are the areas where the disease is most prevalent A British holidaymaker has tragically succumbed to rabies following a stray dog...
How Trump's travel ban could disrupt the way knowledge about health is shared
Little Rock Public Radio - Arkansas
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June 17, 2025
Abdul-Rahman Edward Koroma was supposed to be in New York last week. For months, the disability rights activist from Sierra Leone had been looking forward to his trip to the United Nations session. He had a busy schedule of meetings and official...
Ugandan Health Ministry states Russian backing essential in stopping Ebola spread
MENAFN
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June 16, 2025
(MENAFN) Uganda successfully contained its recent Ebola outbreak with crucial help from Russian experts, a health official from the country said on Tuesday. Dr. Diana Atwine, permanent secretary at Uganda’s Health Ministry, explained at a...
After COVID, Africa needs to make healthcare a priority
NewsDay Zimbabwe
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As we approach the end of a disastrous year that brought death, misery and economic hardship for so many around the world, those of us lucky enough to still be here have a lot to reflect upon. Indeed, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic exposed the...
Harambee Starlets cruise past Burundi in Cecafa opener
Citizen TV Kenya
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June 15, 2025
Kenya’s Harambee Starlets made a confident return to the CECAFA Senior Women’s Championship, kicking off their 2025 campaign on Sunday with a dominant 3-0 win over Burundi in their Group B opener in Dar es Salaam. Midfield dynamo Martha Amunyolet...
Ugandan Health Ministry states Russian support essential in stopping Ebola spread
MENAFN
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June 12, 2025
(MENAFN) Uganda successfully contained a recent Ebola outbreak through collaboration with Russian partners, a Ugandan Health Ministry official announced at an international conference in Sochi. Dr. Diana Atwine, Uganda’s permanent secretary at the...
Sisters at Francestown Community Market are part of collective for refugee farmers
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript - New Hampshire
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August 7, 2025
Every Friday at the Francestown Community Market, sisters Nasteho and Shamsa Mohamed will be selling produce grown by their parents, Khamis and Khadija. “Our mom is the real gardener,” Nasteho said at a recent market. “She does the down-and-dirty...
WHO extends health emergency for mpox as cases climb in West Africa
Ghana News Agency
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June 9, 2025
As a result, the public health emergency declared for the disease remains in effect, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced in Geneva, following a recommendation from independent panel of health experts. Mpox, formerly known as...
Mpox Epidemic: Why WHO Still Considers It An International Health Emergency
Daily Independent
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June 11, 2025
1 LAGOS – Despite a decline in infections in some areas, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reaffirmed its stance that the mpox virus remains a global health emergency, warning that complacency could lead to a resurgence. Since the...
Mpox remains public health emergency of international concern – WHO
Premium Times
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June 10, 2025
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has maintained that Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, continues to constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, made this declaration...
Tributes paid to ‘humanitarian legend’ Mike McDonagh
The Clare Champion
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July 8, 2025
Glowing tributes have been paid to an Ennis “humanitarian giant” who previously broke the blockade on the besieged city of Malanje in the Angolan central highlands during this phase of the war. The sudden death of Mike McDonagh on June 21, 2025,...
WHO says the mpox outbreak remains a public health concern
Africanews
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June 10, 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that the Mpox outbreak remains a public health emergency. Speaking during an International Health Regulations meeting, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the mpox upsurge...
Mpox still a public health emergency, says WHO
The Cable
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June 10, 2025
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the mpox virus is still a public health emergency of international concern. The announcement follows the fourth meeting of the international health regulations (IHR) emergency committee on the upsurge of...
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Mpox epidemic remains international health emergency warns WHO
Firstpost
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June 9, 2025
The World Health Organisation stated Monday that the mpox virus epidemic is still an international health emergency, with almost 37,000 confirmed cases documented since it began. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the...
Fleeing the DRC and Haunted by Loss, a Mother is Left Asking What Comes Next
Modern Ghana
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Cibitoke, Burundi – The last thing Elizabeth Uwimana remembered before the Rusizi River swallowed her two eldest children is the fear in their eyes as a violent surge of water tore them from her grasp. “The river took them from me,” she whispers,...
How Global Fund is Saving Lives from Malaria, TB, & HIV across Africa
Inter Press Service
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July 7, 2025
Africa, Development & Aid, Featured, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Credit: UNOCHA/Giles Clarke NEW YORK, Jul 7 2025 (IPS) - In Gabú, Guinea-Bissau, a...
Mpox: Three countries account for 84% of Africa’s cases – Official
Premium Times
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July 6, 2025
The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) says Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sierra Leone, and Uganda account for over 84 per cent of Mpox cases across Africa. The figure reflects the data as of epidemiological week...
Hope in every dose: A powerful story of Global Funds' health impact across Africa
Patriotic Vanguard
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July 5, 2025
In Gabú, Guinea-Bissau, a grandmother named N’beta hesitated. Her six-month-old grandson, Seco, was healthy, so why give him medicine? But community health workers Jamilia and Amadu gently explained that the medicine wasn’t for illness, but for...
Seeds of another world
Eurozine
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Ever since Donald Trump’s victory in last year’s US presidential election, there has been frantic speculation about what it is the American Right really wants. The tendency is look to the leadership for clues. Who belongs to the inner circle,...