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Longer and warmer summers are increasing the risk of several infectious diseases across Europe, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has warned. In a statement issued on July 29, the European Union health agency said that sustained higher temperatures, rather than individual heatwave episodes alone, were extending the periods during which pathogens and vectors could…
GENEVA – The World Health Organization declared the hantavirus outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius over on Thursday. The final contact of a person exposed to the virus completed quarantine, tested negative and returned home, WHO said. “No further cases have been reported since the 25th of May,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO’s director-general, told a press briefing in Geneva. “We are…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has reported 1,406 cumulative confirmed Ebola cases and 438 deaths, according to a June 30 situational update. The case fatality rate is slightly above 31%. The latest figures represent an increase of 73 confirmed cases in 24 hours, the report said. Health officials also reported 192 recoveries and 609 patients currently in care. The outbreak remains centered…
At least 1,274 confirmed Ebola cases and 360 deaths have been reported in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, health agencies say — part of a regional toll that now stands at 1,295 confirmed cases and 362 deaths across DR Congo, Uganda and France. It is caused by Bundibugyo – a rarer Ebola species with no licensed vaccine or approved treatment. No licensed vaccine for Bundibugyo Ebola All three…
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda could cost Africa as much as $3.6bn and lead to the loss of 328,000 jobs if it spreads further across the region, the UN has warned. The outbreak has infected 1,307 people and killed 377 in DR Congo since it was declared on 15 May, according to government figures cited by the UN Development Programme (UNDP). A smaller number of…
French health authorities confirmed on June 24 the first case of Ebola virus disease in the country. The patient, a physician who had returned from a humanitarian mission in one of the Ebola-affected areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was immediately isolated and admitted to a specialized healthcare facility. The patient is reported to be in stable condition. All precautionary…
H5N1 has been reported in five local bodies in Kozhikode district, with culling operations set to follow, according to PTI and local media reports published on March 18 and 19. The affected areas were named as Panangad, Olavanna, Kakkodi and Perumanna panchayats, along with Nallalam under Kozhikode Corporation. PTI, as carried by ThePrint, said laboratory examination of samples from the affected…
The cull order in Alappuzha district follows reported H5N1 confirmation in Muhamma and will cover a 1-km radius around the outbreak center. Kerala authorities will cull 5,961 domestic birds in Muhamma in Alappuzha district after avian influenza was confirmed there, according to a PTI report. The report said the Animal Husbandry Department had deployed rapid response teams for culling operations…
The UK Health Security Agency said on March 19 that it is investigating an outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease in Kent that, as of March 18, was linked to 27 cases: 15 confirmed and 12 additional linked cases that have not all been laboratory confirmed. The agency said two people have died. The two deaths have been identified as an 18-year-old schoolgirl and a 21-year-old University of Kent…
The head of the World Health Organization has warned that damage to petroleum facilities in Iran could contaminate air, food and water, after residents in Tehran reported what they described as black rain following strikes on fuel sites around the capital. The strikes, carried out overnight into Sunday, March 8, hit multiple oil storage facilities and a petroleum transfer centre in Tehran and…
