General health advice and guidelines for pilgrims
27 June 2023 – The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a list of recommendations that each pilgrim should follow. These recommendations are in line with the health requirements set by the health authorities in Saudi Arabia for pilgrims in the Hajj season this year.
Physical ability, chronic diseases and health education
WHO recommends that authorities at pilgrims’ countries of origin should take into account that a pilgrim should have minimum physical ability for Hajj. It also alerts to the high risk of infectious diseases in older people and those with severe chronic diseases such as ...
Source: WHO EMRO News - June 27, 2023 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
Novel vaccines may help quell polio outbreaks
An international research team developed two oral polio vaccines that protect mice and avoid some concerns with the current vaccines. (Source: NIH Research Matters from the National Institutes of Health (NIH))
Source: NIH Research Matters from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - June 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Africa: Health Centres Financing - Nigeria to Address Concerns As Bill Gates Pledges $7 Billion for Africa
[Premium Times] The Vice President identified polio as a major challenge facing Nigeria's primary healthcare. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 23, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Governance Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
Nigeria: Tinubu Promises Support for Eradicating Polio, Measles, Malaria in Nigeria, Africa
[Leadership] President Bola Tinubu has pledged to give priority attention to the health and safety of Nigerians, noting that for any country to develop, the health of its people, particularly the workforce, is critical. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - June 20, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Malaria Nigeria Polio West Africa Source Type: news
Nigeria: Tinubu Meets Bill Gates, Dangote, Promises to Prioritise Healthcare in Nigeria
[Premium Times] Mr Tinubu hailed Mr Gates on his efforts in the area of climate change, polio eradication, and malaria in Africa, but said more work is required to support developing countries. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 20, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Governance Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
South Africa: Measles and Whooping Cough Outbreaks in South Africa - a Sign of Low Vaccination Coverage, Experts Warn
[The Conversation Africa] The concentrated global effort to use vaccination as a public health intervention began in 1974. Since then, vaccination has changed our lives. Worldwide, in the decades 2000-2020, childhood vaccination led to the reduction of deaths in children under 5 by 50% to 5.4 million deaths per year. Vaccination currently averts more than 5 million deaths each year worldwide. These are deaths that would have been caused by measles, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, diphtheria, pneumonia, rotavirus diarrhoea, and othe (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 15, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Source Type: news
Super-engineered vaccines created to help end polio
The first new polio vaccines in 50 years are less likely to mutate into a dangerous form that causes disease. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - June 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mozambique: Ministry Preparing New Polio Vaccination Campaign
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Health Ministry plans to vaccinate over 15 million children under the age of 15, in a further round of vaccination against polio. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 13, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Mozambique Polio Southern Africa Source Type: news
Surveillance To Track Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication - Worldwide, 2021-2022
This report describes polio surveillance targets and gaps in countries experiencing high risk for poliovirus transmission. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - June 8, 2023 Category: American Health Tags: Global Health MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Polio (poliomyelitis) Surveillance Source Type: news
Biden ’s FTC is blocking a game-changer for cancer patients
Seventy years ago, Dr. Jonas Salk announced to an astonished radio audience he had developed a polio vaccine. It must have seemed too good to be true. The year before, polio claimed 3,000 American lives and infected another 60,000. Millions lived in fear of contracting the incurable disease.…#jonassalk #linakhan #grail #illumina #edison #avalerehealth #medicare #nsclc #ftc (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
2022 Marks Most Violent Year Against Health Workers in Conflicts: Report
June 05, 2023Anew report published by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) documents 1,989 attacks and threats against health care facilities and personnel across 32 countries and territories in armed conflict and situations of political violence throughout 2022. The reported figure represents the most severe year of attacks against health care in the last decade globally. Over half of all attacks were reported in just two countries, Ukraine and Myanmar. The report identifies more than 750 attacks perpetrated by the Russian Federation on health care in Ukraine alone–the most committed in a single year...
Source: IntraHealth International - June 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Tags: Policy & Advocacy Health in Conflict Health Workers Source Type: news
From the archive: The man in the iron lung – podcast
We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authorsThis week, from 2020:When he was six, Paul Alexander contracted polio and was paralysed for life. Today he is 74, and one of the last people in the world still using an iron lung. But after surviving one deadly outbreak, he did not expect to find himself threatened by anotherContinue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 31, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Written by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie and read by Christopher Ragland. Originally produced by Esther Opoku-GyeniAdditions and scoring by Nicola Alexandrou. The executive producer was Ellie Bury Tags: Polio Health Medical research Disability Source Type: news
Africa: Africa's Largest Polio Vaccination Drive Since 2020 Targets 21 Million Children
[WHO-AFRO] Brazzaville -- Africa's largest polio vaccination campaign since 2020 kicks off today in three West and Central African countries, in a combined effort by national health authorities to immunise a total 21 million children under the age of five. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 26, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
How the polio epidemic revolutionized modern medicine
In the early twentieth century, a diagnosis of polio could mean almost certain death. By 1952, the epidemic had devastated countries in Europe and baffled medical professionals. In her book, The Autumn Ghost, Dr. Hannah Wunsch explores how Danish doctors revolutionized their practice in the midst of this tragedy. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - May 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Radio/The Current Source Type: news
Malawi: Ministry of Health Upbeat to Surpass 9 Million Children in Vaccination Campaign
[Nyasa Times] Officials from Ministry of Health are upbeat they will surpass the nine million children target for the integrated mass immunisation campaign against typhoid, Polio, measles and rubella. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 22, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
