The next killer disease
30/4/2008 |
West and Central Africa are emerging as the major potential sources for the next new infectious disease, according to a new study.
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Measles threaten soccer fans
29/4/2008 |
Soccer fans travelling to Switzerland and Austria in June need to check whether they have been vaccinated against measles, and get jabs if their immunity is unclear.
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Ebola vaccines pass test
1/4/2008 |
Researchers have successfully tested several Ebola vaccines in monkeys and are now working to create the first human vaccine for one of the world's deadliest diseases.
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How a virus becomes infectious
28/3/2008 |
Biologists have mapped how a deadly class of viruses that includings dengue, West Nile, yellow fever and encephalitis become infectious in a pair of recent studies.
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Man diagnosed with Congo fever
25/2/2008 |
A man from Onseepkans in the Northern Cape has been admitted to the Kimberley Hospital Complex as a result of Congo Fever, provincial health officials have said.
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Scientists disarm Ebola virus
22/1/2008 |
Researchers have devised a way to disarm the Ebola virus that could speed research into a vaccine against the bug or drugs to treat people who have been infected with it.
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Vomiting bug rife in UK
4/1/2008 |
Hundreds of thousands of Britons have been struck down by a highly infectious stomach bug that swept the country during the holiday period, doctors said on Thursday.
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Meningitis outbreak scare
21/12/2007 |
14 African countries may be on the verge of the worst meningitis outbreak in a decade, Red Cross officials have warned.
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Ebola claims three more
10/12/2007 |
Three Ebola patients died in western Uganda on Sunday, bringing the
death toll to 28, an official said, as the virus continued to ravage
the impoverished region.
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Outbreaks hit Uganda
7/12/2007 |
Multiple outbreaks - excluding Ebola - have killed at least 33 people in Uganda in the past three weeks, straining the country's health facilities, an official said Thursday.
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