•Tourists shield themselves from the sun with umbrellas at St Peter’s square in the Vatican during a heatwave, today The heatwave gripping Europe is putting people’s health at risk, and the continent’s leaders must invest in making their health services more climate-resilient, the WHO chief said today. Temperatures climbed across Europe again...
•Healthcare workers put on personal protective equipment (PPE) The fatal Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading rapidly, the World Health Organisation warned today, despite accelerating efforts to tackle the virus The WHO said it was still racing to catch up with the worsening situation gripping northeastern DRC, repo...
•Ebola outbreak The Ebola outbreak in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading into new areas, the World Health Organisation warned today. Much more needs to be done to get on top of the virus, the WHO said, with isolation bed capacity far below the anticipated need, based on how it is spreading, reports […]
•Ebola outbreak The World Health Organisation, WHO, today dramatically scaled back the number of suspected Ebola cases in central Africa to 116, down from more than 900 previously, with 330 cases now confirmed. As of May 31, the World Health Organisation said 116 suspected cases of the deadly virus had been registered in the Democratic [&helli...
•World Health Organisation Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on governments to ban flavours and additives, including menthol, in tobacco and nicotine products to protect children and young people from addiction. WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Mohamed Janabi, made the call in a sta...
•Ebola outbreak The World Health Organisation has today announced the first recovery of a confirmed Ebola patient in the outbreak raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “The DRC has said that on May 27, a patient recovered and left the hospital and has been discharged into the community,” the WHO’s Anais Legand told reporters. […]...
The World Health Organisation today said the risk of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s deadly Ebola outbreak was currently high at the national and regional levels but low worldwide. WHO experts said that while investigations into its origins were ongoing, given the scale of the situation in the eastern DRC, the outbreak probably began a [&he...
•Health workers carrying body of victim The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said that although currently Nigeria has no confirmed case of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), it is, nevertheless, actively strengthening surveillance, following the death of 88 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and a reported imported c...
•MV Hondius where the virus was first detected The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday confirmed a total of eight cases, up from seven earlier reported, including three deaths from the hantavirus outbreak. In an update highlighting the disease outbreak linked to MV Hondius, the Organisation noted that the statistics were as of yesterda...
•The ill-fated cruise ship MV Hondius stationary off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, yesterday Three people have died on a cruise ship in the Atlantic, the WHO said yesterday, a confirmed case of hantavirus — an illness usually transmitted to humans from rodents. The outbreak occurred on the MV Hondius, travelling […]...
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