For more than a decade, I have worked as a physician and public-health expert responding to infectious diseases around the world. In 2014, while treating Ebola patients in Guinea, I contracted and ...

How many deaths have been linked to the mystery disease in Congo? At least 60 deaths have been reported, according to the latest bulletin from the WHO's Africa office. In the initial outbreak ...

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Marcela Henao-Tamayo receives funding from NIAID, NIH and OEDIT. An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

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At least 1,318 people have exhibited symptoms and 53 have died, the WHO said. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring an unknown disease that has killed dozens in ...

This led to a lack of access to vaccines and a clear, early decrease in rates of vaccination,” Dr. Richard Martinello chief medical officer and professor of infectious diseases at Yale Medicine ...

Key diseases to watch include H5N1 Bird Flu, Measles, Polio, Mpox, an unnamed illness in Congo, and Guillain-Barré Syndrome. “The COVID-19 crisis may have passed, but a harsh lesson remains ...

Health authorities are conducting tests in regions of DR Congo affected by a mystery disease that has killed 60 people. https://p.dw.com/p/4rC2q Plasmodium falciparum ...

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When British peer Lord Myners accused institutional investors of being “asleep at the wheel” he wasn’t talking about a fund manager’s Ferrari fender-bender. It was much higher stakes.