public health emergency

A fresh public health emergency has been declared in Nigeria following the confirmation of yet another fatality linked to Lassa fever. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) …

The United States has recorded its first measles-related death in a decade after an unvaccinated child died during a measles outbreak in Texas. The child, who was of school age, …

In a groundbreaking move in the global fight against the Ebola virus, Uganda has launched the first-ever vaccine trial targeting the Sudan strain of the disease. This historic development comes …