Dengue spreads fast in Brazil prompting emergency health measures
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Dengue fever has surged in Brazil’s hot rainy season, forcing health authorities to take emergency measures and start mass vaccination against the mosquito-borne illness. In the first five weeks of this year 364,855 cases of infection have been reported, the Health Ministry said, four times more than dengue cases in the same […]
Cholera death toll rises to over 420 in Cameroon
Yaounde, CameroonReuters A further 26 people have died in Cameroon’s ongoing cholera outbreak in the past two weeks, taking the overall death toll to 426, a health ministry official said on Thursday. The outbreak was declared in October 2021 and has seen a strong increase in cases since late March of this year after a […]
Uphill struggle: Russia counts cost of missteps, vaccine refusals as COVID tide keeps rising
As the world passes five million deaths from COVID-19, POLINA NIKOLSKAYA and MAXIM SHEMETOV, of Reuters, report from the Russian city of Oryol…
Tanzania says no plans in place to accept COVID-19 vaccines
Dodoma, TanzaniaAP Tanzania’s health ministry says it has no plans in place to accept COVID-19 vaccines, just days after the president of the country of 60 million people expressed doubt about the vaccines without offering evidence. Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima told a press conference in the capital, Dodoma, on Monday that “the ministry has no […]
New taskforces to tackle “missing wombs” scandal in rural India
Mumbai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Special taskforces have been established in India to help stop women from being duped by doctors into having unnecessary hysterectomies that cause debt bondage and enslave families, the country’s health ministry said. A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in three Indian states, published in May, found that families were taking big loans for […]