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129 stories from 2020 to 2024.
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has refuted the outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease in Nigeria. Reacting to reports of the alleged existence of the ailment at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital,…
An international team of scientists identified a new virus that was likely to have been transmitted to humans after it first infected animals, in another potential zoonotic spillover less than three years into the…
The Nigerian embassy in Mexico has been shut owing to an outbreak of COVID-19 at the embassy. In a statement on Monday by Abimbola Tooki, special adviser on media to Adejare Bello, Nigerian ambassador to Mexico, said…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed 157 cases of monkeypox across 26 states in the country. The NCDC disclosed this in its latest monkeypox situation report for week 30. Monkeypox is a rare viral…
The Gombe State government has confirmed three cases of monkeypox out of 19 suspected cases reported to the state’s Ministry of Health. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Habu Dahiru, disclosed this to newsmen Tuesday. He…
Two State In the U.S, California, and Illinois declared a state of emergency on Monday, over the Monkey Pox outbreak. Announcing this in a statement, California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, said the emergency declaration…
The Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) on Monday said it had discovered a new malaria vector called Anopheles stephensi in northern Nigeria. The Director General of the agency, Professor Babatunde Salako, who…
The Edo State Ministry of Health has revealed that eight persons had so far tested positive for monkeypox in the state. This was disclosed by Prof. Akoria Obehi, the state’s Commissioner for Health, on Monday.…
Borno State has announced the outbreak of Monkey Pox in the state with three of the four suspected samples sent to the National Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, confirmed positive. The Director of Public Health at the…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday, confirmed 21 cases of Monkeypox with one casualty from nine states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The NCDC has also activated Monkeypox Emergency…
Dr Tomi Coker, the Commissioner for Health, Ogun State has revealed that Nigeria is in dire need of not less than 300,000 doctors to be able to render effective medical services across the country. Coker said this at…
Reliance Health, an emerging markets-focused digital healthcare provider, today announced the completion of a $40M Series B funding round led by General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity investor, with…
As part of efforts to fight cancer in the country, Me Cure Healthcare Limited has unveiled an initiative that it said will help in early diagnosis. The chairman of the firm, Mr Samir Udani, at the World Cancer Day event…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja launched a sixty-two billion Naira (N62bn) trust fund to help Nigeria end AIDS as a public health threat and place more people living with HIV on treatment annually.…
The council which described the profession as demanding, embellished in compassion and helpfulness, also charged the nursing graduates to be compassionate, kind and attentive in dealing with patients.Nursing The…
Ozzie, the world's oldest male gorilla and the third-oldest gorilla in the world, died Tuesday at Zoo Atlanta, the facility announced. He was 61. The 350-pound western lowland gorilla's cause of death is not yet known,…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has stopped the registration of alcohol in sachets, small volumes and glass bottles below 200ml amid other stringent regulatory measures. This…
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday ordered the arrest of unvaccinated people who violate stay-at-home orders aimed at curbing “galloping” coronavirus infections driven by the Omicron variant. The…
The World Health Organisation has urged nations to lift or ease COVID-19 travel restrictions. According to WHO, the restrictions are detrimental to economic growth and have proven to have little public health value. On…
In a lengthy Twitter thread on Wednesday, the fresh graduate, via her handle @joy_fro, documented her travails while at school, revealing that she wrote her exams in a hospital bed, and even had to change her course.…
