Zimbabwe: Typhoid Claims 12 in Mashonaland East Province
[New Zimbabwe] MASHONALAND EAST province is battling to contain an outbreak of typhoid in Murewa district and Marondera town with reports claiming that 12 people have died in the past few weeks. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 1, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
7 Expert-Backed Tips For Staying Healthy On Your Next Big Trip
As spring approaches, you may be thinking about this year’s summer getaway. Or maybe you’re an Type A planner who is already booking a Thanksgiving or Christmas trip. Whatever your travel style, here's something you probably haven't considered: How to stay healthy while abroad. While you probably won’t make a Pinterest board of vaccinations with the same enthusiasm as you pin must-eat pastries and stylish travel outfits, taking care of your health on a trip might just save your life. Here are seven tips to help keep your vacations as stress- and sickness-free as possible: 1. First, call your doctor....
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: City Allays Typhoid Fears
[The Herald] Harare City Council is expecting to start pumping water to the western suburbs tonight allaying fears that the typhoid outbreak reported in the area will spread following a mechanical fault that led to flooding of the pump station at Morton Jaffray Water Treatment Plant on Monday evening. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 16, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Key step in process of Shigella infection identified
Researchers have discovered a key mechanism used by Shigella to delivery proteins into target host cells. Their findings may apply to additional bacterial species, including those responsible for typhoid fever, bubonic plague and many hospital-acquired pneumonias. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - March 9, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
South Africa: Over 30 Typhoid Fever Cases in SA in Two Months
[News24Wire] Over 30 cases of typhoid fever have been reported in the country between January and February, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Wednesday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 9, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Mass. General research team identifies key step in process of Shigella infection
(Massachusetts General Hospital) Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Infectious Diseases have discovered a key mechanism used by Shigella to delivery proteins into target host cells. Their findings may apply to additional bacterial species, including those responsible for typhoid fever, bubonic plague and many hospital-acquired pneumonias. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 9, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Typhoid Detected At Mereki
[The Herald] Samantha Chigogo Herald Correspondent Popular braai spot KwaMereki in Warren Park D, Harare, has been hit by a typhoid outbreak with two cases having been reported last week, Harare City Council health director Dr Prosper Chonzi has said. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 8, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
WHO Regional Director calls for urgent funding to support Syria health response
Statement by Dr Ala Alwan, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean
Cairo, 3 March, 2016 The health situation in Syria continues to deteriorate, not just day by day, but hour by hour. As always in conflict, it is innocent civilians that pay the highest price. Almost two thirds of all Syrians have no access to safe water, putting them at risk of diseases like typhoid and cholera. Throughout the country, almost 300 000 pregnant women are not getting the care they need for a safe and healthy pregnancy. Every month, more than 30 000 people need treatment for injuries. People with chronic diseases are dying of compl...
Source: WHO EMRO News - March 3, 2016 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Suspected Typhoid Fever, Dysentery Kills 13 in Abuja
[Premium Times] The executive secretary of the Federal Capital Territory Primary Health Care Development Board, Rilwanu Muhammad, said unknown disease suspected to be typhoid fever or shigella dysentery had killed 13 people in Saburi community of AMAC in Abuja. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 24, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zika Was First Discovered in 1947. Why Is it Now a Threat?
Mostly innocuous and fairly unknown until a few weeks ago, the Zika virus is suddenly dominating the news. Under scrutiny is the virus's putative link with a congenital birth defect called microcephaly, which causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads and undeveloped brains. Two recent publications [1,2] have documented finding the genome of the Zika virus in the amniotic fluid and brains of fetuses affected by microcephaly from three different mothers. These numbers are still too small to constitute a proof, and in fact, alternative theories are already cropping up: an organization of Argentinean doctors has p...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 22, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Typhoid Claims One
[The Herald] One person died of typhoid in Hopley as water shortages continue to affect parts of the city, Harare City Health director Dr Prosper Chonzi, confirmed yesterday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 19, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Typhoid Cases On the Rise
[Financial Gazette] THE Harare City Council's health department has issued a typhoid alert as the number of confirmed cases has increased from six early this month to 13 this week. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 11, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Typhoid - No Lessons Learnt From the Past
[The Herald] Zimbabwe should not be having to deal with yet another diarrhoeal outbreak. After the cholera outbreak of 2008 which killed so many people, we should have learnt our lessons. Yet the typhoid cases that seem to be spreading in a number of Harare suburbs appear to prove otherwise. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 5, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: One More Typhoid Case Reported
[The Herald] Typhoid cases that were recorded in Glen Norah, Hopley, Hatfield and Budiriro suburbs, Harare, have increased from six to seven, while 14 suspected cases have so far been recorded. Glen Norah has recorded the highest number of cases of the bacteria with four confirmed cases, while the other three areas recorded one each. City Health director Dr Prosper Chonzi yesterday said most of the 14 suspected cases were recorded in Budiriro and Hopley. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 2, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Typhoid 'Plague' No Surprise. . . Harare Ill-Prepared for Climate Threats
[The Herald] HARARE's renewed problems with preventable water-borne diseases do not come as a surprise -- it's been long in the making -- because the city is ill-prepared for climate change-related threats on human health. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 1, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
