The number of confirmed Vaccine-Preventable diphtheria cases in Malaysia has risen to 14 after an additional case was reported in a 6-year-old boy from Kedah. According to Health Director-General Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, the boy presented with a fever on 26 Jun [2016], and his condition worsened, and he was placed on a ventilator. He was
Read more →SCHISTOSOMIASIS – TANZANIA: (KILIMANJARO) Kilimanjaro region is badly hit by worms and bilharzia diseases that affect many of its residents, with 57 014 people who visited health facilities last year [2014] found to have contracted either of them. Kilimanjaro Regional Commissioner (RC), Mr Leonidas Gama, said that it was pertinent now for leaders from all
Read more →Yellow Fever – Africa: Congo DR A shortage of syringes is hampering plans to vaccinate people in Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC] against a yellow fever epidemic despite the arrival of more than one million doses of vaccine, health officials said on Tue [5 Jul 2016]. Congo’s government declared a yellow fever [YF] epidemic last month in
Read more →Low malaria risk in South Africa, June to August 2016 There is currently no increase in the number of malaria cases in the lowveld areas of Mpumalanga Province around and within the Kruger National Park, in contrast to recent media reports. The number of malaria cases reported has in fact been lower during the period May
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