Suspected Congo Yellow Fever Cases up 38 Percent in Last Three Weeks Suspected Congo Yellow Fever Cases up 38 Percent in Last Three Weeks
The number of suspected yellow fever cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has jumped 38 percent in the last three weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, as health officials prepare to launch a vaccination campaign next week. < br / > < i > Reuters Health Information < /i > (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - July 18, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Suspected Congo Yellow Fever Cases up 38 Percent in Last Three WeeksSuspected Congo Yellow Fever Cases up 38 Percent in Last Three Weeks
The number of suspected yellow fever cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has jumped 38 percent in the last three weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, as health officials prepare to launch a vaccination campaign next week. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - July 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
NIH funds yellow fever vaccine research at Saint Louis University
(Saint Louis University) As Angola grapples with an outbreak of yellow fever, Saint Louis University scientists are studying an investigational vaccine to protect against Zika's deadly cousin, which also is spread by Aedes mosquitoes. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 18, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
International Health Regulations (2005): Third Edition
World Health Organization. 07/07/2016This 84-page document is the third edition of the International Health Regulations (IHR)(2005). It contains the text of the IHR (2005); the text of World Health Assembly resolution WHA58.3; the amended version of Annex 7 (concerning period of protection of vaccination against yellow fever, and validity of related certificates) that entered into force on July 11, 2016; the Health Part of the Aircraft General Declaration that entered into force on July 15, 2007; and appendices containing an updated list of States Parties and State Party reservations and other communications in connection ...
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - July 16, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news
Suspected Congo yellow fever cases up 38 percent in last three weeks: WHO
KINSHASA (Reuters) - The number of suspected yellow fever cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has jumped 38 percent in the last three weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, as health officials prepare to launch a vaccination campaign next week. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
The many challenges to fighting yellow fever in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Yellow Fever vaccination in border areas of Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo (Source: WHO Feature Stories)
Source: WHO Feature Stories - July 11, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, vaccines [subject], vaccine, vaccine safety, vaccine quality, yellow fever [subject], yellow fever [subject], African Region [region], Democratic Republic of the Congo [country Source Type: news
Angola: Angola With No Yellow Fever Cases for More Than a Month
[ANGOP] Luanda -Angola has recorded no case of yellow fever for more than five weeks, said the director of public health, who attributed the decline of outbreak to vaccination campaign started February this year in Viana district, Luanda. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 8, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Angola: Angola Battling Worst Yellow Fever Outbreak in Decades Needs Help, Says Red Cross
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] New York -Yellow fever, a mosquito-borne haemorrhagic virus, has death rates as high as 75 percent but can be prevented with a vaccine (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 7, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Shortage of syringes hampers Congo's fight against yellow fever
A shortage of syringes is hampering plans to vaccinate people in Democratic Republic of Congo against a yellow fever epidemic despite the arrival of more than one million doses of vaccine, health officials say. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - July 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
Syringe shortage endangers yellow fever fight in Congo
(Reuters) — A shortage of syringes is hampering plans to vaccinate people in Democratic Republic of Congo against a yellow fever epidemic, despite the arrival of more than 1 million doses of vaccine, health officials said today.
Congo’s government declared a yellow fever epidemic last month in the capital Kinshasa and 2 other provinces near the border with Angola.
The World Health Organization says some 1,400 suspected cases of the hemorrhagic virus in Congo have resulted so far in 82 deaths and is particularly concerned about conditions in Kinshasa, a city of 12 million with poor health services and a climate c...
Source: Mass Device - July 5, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Wall Street Beat Yellow fever Source Type: news
Shortage of syringes hampers Congo's fight against yellow fever
KINSHASA (Reuters) - A shortage of syringes is hampering plans to vaccinate people in Democratic Republic of Congo against a yellow fever epidemic despite the arrival of more than one million doses of vaccine, health officials said on Tuesday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Central Africa: UN Launching Yellow Fever Vaccination Campaigns On Angola-DRC Border
[UN News] Amid an outbreak of yellow fever in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations health agency is launching pre-emptive vaccination campaigns to halt the epidemic and prevent the risk of further international spread. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 1, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
UN launching yellow fever vaccination campaigns on Angola-DRC border
Amid an outbreak of yellow fever in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations health agency is launching pre-emptive vaccination campaigns to halt the epidemic and prevent the risk of further international spread. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - June 29, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Uganda Rolls Out Compulsory Immunization to Dispel Anti-Vaccine Myths
Women wait to immunize their children at the Kisugu Health Centre in Kampala, Uganda, where free vaccinations take place. The nurse in the foreground is Betty Makakeeto. Credit: Amy Fallon/IPSBy Amy FallonKAMPALA, Jun 29 2016 (IPS)Patience*, a Ugandan maid, planned on taking her three-year-old son for polio immunization during the country’s mass campaigns a year ago, until her landlord’s wife told her a shocking myth.“The medicine they are injecting them with means the boy when he’s an adult won’t be able to reproduce,” Patience, 32, recalled to IPS what she’d been informed. “She said: ‘Don’t even thin...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 29, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Amy Fallon Tags: Africa Development & Aid Headlines Health Population Poverty & SDGs Religion Women's Health immunisation Maternal and Child Health Uganda Vaccination Source Type: news
Congo-Kinshasa: Govt Launches Vaccination Campaign Against Yellow Fever
[VOA] The Democratic Republic of Congo says it will begin a campaign next month to vaccinate 11.6 million people against yellow fever after an epidemic was declared in the capital. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 28, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
