Mozambique: Explosion of cholera cases after Cyclone Freddy
Cholera cases in Mozambique have increased tenfold since February, with more than 28,000 people infected in the southern African country still reeling from the passage […]
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Equatorial Guinea: 10 deaths from the Marburg virus according to a new report
The new provisional toll of the Marburg virus disease epidemic that has been raging for more than two months in Equatorial Guinea stands at 10 […]
Mozambique will vaccinate hundreds of thousands of people against cholera
The Mozambican government and the World Health Organization (WHO) started, end of last week, the deployment of rehydration and cholera vaccination posts in the districts […]
Pascoal Mocumbi, former Prime Minister of Mozambique, has died
Pascoal Mocumbi, former Prime minister of Mozambique, died in Maputo. He was 81 years old. A statement of the Council of Ministers said that Mocumbi […]
Marburg virus kills five people in Tanzania
A mysterious disease that killed five people in Tanzania has been identified as coming from the Marburg virus, a cousin of Ebola that also causes […]
Drought in Somalia could cause 135 deaths a day, says UN
The record drought in the Horn of Africa could lead to 135 deaths per day in Somalia between January and June, the Somali Ministry of […]
South Africa: one death from cholera, a first in 15 years
A 24-year-old man has died of cholera in South Africa despite the fact that the country has not had a death linked to the infectious […]
Cholera outbreak in Mozambique killed a total of 37 people
“The victims are among the 5,260 cases registered by Mozambican authorities at a time when the country is going through a period marked by illness […]
Marburg hemorrhagic fever outbreak kills in Equatorial Guinea
Nine people have died of Marburg virus disease, a hemorrhagic fever nearly as deadly as Ebola, in eastern Equatorial Guinea, a small central African country […]
MOSASWA grant against malaria in Mozambique, South Africa and Essuatíni
Three governments, in partnership with the Global Fund, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Goodbye Malaria, Wednesday launched the third MOSASWA grant to fight malaria […]