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Saturday, August 13, 2022
Dowell | Moment | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its Covid-19 guidance on Thursday because, the agency says, the virus presents a lower risk of severe disease, hospitalization, and death than it did at the start of 2020. “This guidance acknowledges that the pandemic is not over, […]
President Biden’s health secretary on Thursday declared the growing monkeypox outbreak a national health emergency, a rare designation signaling that the virus now represents a significant risk to Americans and setting in motion measures aimed at containing the threat. The declaration comes more than a week after the World Health […]
Most of the global cases of sickle cell disease are diagnosed in African countries. The Economist Intelligence Unit – the research and analysis division of the Economist media group – estimated that in 2020 the total annual cost of treatment and impact on the economy of sickle cell disease across […]
Ghana has announced the preliminary finding of two cases of Marburg virus disease and if confirmed these would be the first such infections is recorded in the country. Marburg is a highly infectious viral haemorrhagic fever in the same family as the more well-known Ebola virus disease. Preliminary analysis of […]
Getting pregnant may seem like a rather mystical process. Once you learn the science and timing, it makes a bit more sense. Here’s more about how reproduction works (in super simple terms), as well as how to time things and possibly up your odds of getting pregnant. Have lots of […]
Pfizer on Thursday said it would extend until 2030 a drug donation programme aimed at eliminating trachoma, an eye disease responsible for blinding or visually impairing nearly two million people worldwide. The US pharmaceutical company co-founded the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) in 1998, and has already donated nearly a billion […]
*From Yellow Fever infection despite free vaccination Story: News DESK The number of people who have died from the outbreak of Yellow Fever in the Savannah Region is now 22, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed. The Service said most of these victims were predominantly children who lived closer […]
Ghana has confirmed five cases of the Monkeypox virus, the health service said on Wednesday (8 June). Monkeypox is a rare but potentially serious viral illness that can be transmitted from person to person through direct contact with body fluid or monkeypox lesions. Addressing the media on Wednesday, the director-general of the […]