A third case of ebola has been confirmed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the city of Mbandaka in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo.
The patient is a 48-year-old man deemed a "high-risk" contact of the first Ebola patient identified in the DRC's latest outbreak, who died on April...
The World Health Organization has confirmed eight more countries have reported cases of mystery hepatitis in children.
It brings the total number of countries with cases to 20. Globally, 228 children have been sickened with an unusual form of liver disease and another 50 suspected cases are being probed.
One death has been...
China has confirmed the first known human case of the H3N8 strain of avian flu.
According to China's National Health Commission, a four-year-old boy living in central Henan province tested positive for the strain after being hospitalised with a fever and other symptoms.
The boy's family raised chickens at home and...
A toddler has lost the ability to walk and speak after she was diagnosed with a rare form of a dementia when she was born.
Florence Swaffield was able to walk when born.
She even ran down the aisle with the rings as the flower girl at her parent’s wedding in...
Photos have emerged showing doctors in Ukraine perform an incredible life-saving operation on a badly injured Ukranian soldier. According to the DailyMail, a combination of Ukrainian and Belarusian doctors extracted the entire bullet during surgery at Feofaniya Hospital in Kyiv, and footage shows the soldier’s heart pulsating as doctors...
Doctors in France have used forceps to carry out an operation on a man who was 'pregnant in eye with flies'.
The 53-year-old patient had admitted himself to a hospital in France, complaining of an itching right eye that he had suffered from for several hours.
According to a report by...
UK scientists hailed a “game-changing” antibiotic in a new study released on Tuesday, which could save millions of people worldwide from drug-resistant superbugs.
The team of researchers, working in association with the University of Lincoln, achieved the breakthrough by developing new versions of the molecule teixobactin, successfully killing bacteria without...
Three blood pressure medications manufactured by the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer have been recalled after a potential cancer-causing chemical compound was discovered in them.
Several “tainted” lots of Accuretic and two authorized generic versions of the drug were found to have elevated levels of nitrosamine above the Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) set by US...
China placed all 17 million residents in one of its biggest cities under lockdown on Sunday, as virus cases doubled nationwide to nearly 3,400 and anxiety mounted over the resilience of its ‘zero-Covid’ approach in the face of the worst outbreak in two years.
The southern tech hub of Shenzhen...
A lady is crying out for help after her implant exploded leaving her with deflated boobs.
The lady who has now launched a GoFundMe account to raise money for reconstruction surgery, said she suffered sepsis and it got so bad that she had a puss build up.
She wrote;
Hello my wonderful guys...
The first person to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig has died two months after the medical milestone.
This was made known by the hospital that carried out the surgery said Wednesday.
“David Bennett, 57, had received his transplant on January 7, 2022, and passed away March 8,”...
A new study has said that people who have had a case of Covid-19 no matter how mild may have accelerated aging of the brain and even increased chances of having dementia or Alzheimer's.
The study, published Monday, March 7, in the journal Nature, is believed to be the largest...
A fourth Covid vaccine will be rolled out in a few weeks, the UK Health Secretary has announced.
Sajid Javid said the booster will be given this spring to over-75s and care home residents. The vaccine will also be given to immunosuppressed people, topping up the protection for those most at risk...
No fewer than 115,500 health workers died from COVID-19 in 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, linked to a “systemic lack of safeguards”, according to UN agencies.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and International Labour Organisation (ILO) on Monday warned that health teams worldwide needed much safer working conditions to...
A U.S. patient with leukemia has become the first woman and the third person in the world to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus that causes AIDS, researchers reported on Tuesday February 15.
The case of...
Two cases of Lassa fever have been found in England, with a further “probable” case being investigated.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the cases which have been identified are within the same family in the east of England and are linked to recent travel to West Africa.
Lassa Fever is an illness caused...
Health officials in Israel have recommended a fourth Covid jab to all adults in the country.
The move follows research showing fourth doses doubled protection against symptomatic Covid-19 and increased protection against severe illness by three to five times, compared with three doses.
Other countries, including the UK, US and Chile,...
A US hospital has rejected a patient for a heart transplant because he is not vaccinated against Covid-19.
DJ Ferguson, 31, is in need of a new heart, but Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston took him off their list.
David Ferguson told CBS 4 his son D.J. was removed from his place on the transplant...
Billionaire Microsoft founder, Bill Gate has warned that future pandemics could be worse than the coronavirus pandemic.
Gates spoke of his worries as the Bill & Melania Gates Foundation donated $150 million (£110m) to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) on Wednesday, January 19.
CEPI are set to use the...
Researchers have said using cannabis can affect memory, concentration, and decision-making.
The Canadian experts reviewed the scientific evidence surrounding the drug, and warned the effects of cannabis or marijuana can persist well beyond the period of intoxication.
University of Montreal scientists claimed children who smoke the drug may perform worse at school because...
The World Health Organization has said the Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, despite plummeting cases in Europe.
Director General of the UN health body, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned Tuesday, January 18, that people shouldn't go with the narrative that the the Omicron variant is risk-free.
Omicron is much more contagious...
The Oyo State government has confirmed the death of two people with many hospitalised at the State General Hospital following the outbreak of Lassa fever in the state.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Bode Ladipo, made this known in a statement issued on Monday January 17, and made available to journalists in Ibadan, stating...
The fourth dose of the Covid vaccine is not effective on the Omicron variant and provides only limited defence, a preliminary study in Israel has found.
Israel's Sheba Medical Center began administering the fourth vaccine to more than 270 medical staff last month during a trial program.
According to Mail Online, experts...
A man left unable to use his legs or voice since an accident in 2017 has shocked medics by walking and talking, and he says it is thanks to the "miracle" covid vaccine.
Dularchand Munda, 55, had a spine injury after he suffered a car crash. This left him bedridden and unable to...
Poor nations rejected more than 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the global programme COVAX in December 2021, mainly due to their rapid expiry date, UNICEF has disclosed .
Despite growing supplies of shots, the world is still a long way off being vaccinated, with COVAX getting closer...
The World Health Organization has said more than half of Europe’s population will be infected with Omicron variant of coronavirus within the next six to eight weeks.
This comes after more than seven million new Covid cases were reported in the region in the first week of 2022, with the numbers doubling over...
Natural defences against a common cold could offer some protection against Covid-19, too, a new research has suggested.
The study performed on a small scale and published in Nature Communications by Imperial College London, involved 52 individuals who lived with someone who had just caught Covid-19.
Those who had developed a...
Surgeons at University of Maryland Medical Center have performed the first-of-its-kind procedure on a Maryland resident identified as David Bennett.
The 57-year-old man who was out of options, became the first successful recipient of a genetically-modified pig heart.
Bennett was diagnosed with a terminal heart disease and had been hospitalized and bedridden...
A researcher in Cyprus has discovered a strain of the coronavirus that combines the delta and omicron variants.
Leondios Kostrikis, professor of biological sciences at the University of Cyprus, and head of the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Molecular Virology, called the strain “deltacron,” because of its omicron-like genetic signatures within...
9-year-old boy was almost blinded after suffering a rare 'covid eye' which kept him in the hospital during Christmas.
Year 5 pupil, Zac Morey lost his vision in his left eye less than a week after testing positive for Covid-19 along with his mother and four siblings on December 16. His...
As the world grapples with the highly contagious and mutated Omicron variant of COVID-19, France has alrrted the world to a new Coronavirus variant called IHU.
Scientists identified the new strain, B.1.640.2, at the institute IHU Méditerranée Infection in Marseille and say it contains 46 mutations, more than Omicron.
France has...
French scientists have detected another Covid variant in France.
The mutant strain has 46 mutations that are thought to make it both more vaccine-resistant and infectious than the original virus. Some 12 cases have been spotted so far near Marseille, with the first linked to travel to the African country, Cameroon.
According to...
Premier League Association on Monday in England announced that there were 103 new coronavirus cases among club players and staff.
It was the highest weekly number recorded since testing figures began being circulated in May 2020.
The league has also confirmed it has reverted to emergency measures following a raft of...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first injectable prevention medication for HIV.
The new drug, Apretude, is administered to patients every two months via injection. Before the approval, there were only two forms of treatment approved as prevention medication for HIV. Truvada and Descovy, both of which are an...
A vaccine believed to be effective against Omicron and all Covid and SARS variants has been developed by scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research is the largest biomedical research facility administered by the US Department of Defence and is located at...
Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Ifedayo Adetifa has raised an alarm of isolation centres getting filled up in some states in the country.
Adetifa who disclosed this in an interview on AIT’s Kakaaki programme on Thursday December 23, also revealed that the Omicron variant is more transmissible than the Delta variant...
The government of Israel has announced it will offer a fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to health workers and people older than 60, amid concern about the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
A Health Ministry expert panel recommended the fourth shot late on Tuesday, December 21,...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says Nigeria has entered the fourth wave of coronavirus disease following a 500 percent increase in the number of cases in the past two weeks.
The agency announced this in a statement signed by the Director-General, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa on Monday evening, December 20.
The...
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director, Dr. Anthony Fauci has warned that Christmas travel will increase the spread of the Omicron Covid-19 variant, even among the fully vaccinated.
Dr Fauci, who advises the US government on the pandemic, said the variant was now "raging through the world" even...
The Federal Government has appealed to Nigerians to take their health seriously as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has risen astronomically by 630%.
The Minister of State for Health, Dr Olorunmimbe Mamora, made the appeal in an interview with Punch. He said there is need for Nigerians to take responsibility...
The Omicron variant multiplies 70 times faster than Delta in human airways, according to researchers.
A new study in Hong Kong provides the first information on how Omicron infects people, and it also suggests it replicates less well in human lung tissue compared with the original strain of the virus.
This...
The UK government has announced that all 11 countries will be removed from the UK's travel red list from 4am on Wednesday, Dec. 15.
Nigeria, South Africa, Botswana, Angola, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe are countries placed on the list in late November after the emergence of the Omicron...
Pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, has announced that it has produced 180,000 treatment pills ready for use this year and plans to produce at least 80 million in 2022.
According to Pfizer, the final analysis of its antiviral COVID-19 pill showed close to 90 percent efficacy in preventing hospitalisations and deaths in...
Yearly vaccine booster shots are a possibility in the US' battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci has warned.
Fauci, the chief White House medical adviser, said on ABC’s “This Week.” that boosters provide the “optimal” level of protection.
Asked about the possible necessity...
International news agency, Reuters has reported that up to one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria in November.
Two sources with direct knowledge of vaccine delivery and use, told Reuters that the expired doses were made by AstraZeneca and supplied via COVAX from Europe.
A third source with knowledge...
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has said that Omicron is driving the fourth wave of Covid-19 infections in the country following a five-fold increase in daily infection rates over the last week.
Speaking on the situation, which he says is “concerning,” he explained omicron is dominating new infections in most provinces and nearly a quarter of all...
Two hippopotamuses have tested positive for Covid-19 at Antwerp zoo in Belgium.
Imani, aged 14, and Hermien, 41, have no symptoms apart from runny noses, but the zoo said they had been put in quarantine as a precaution.
"To my knowledge, this is the first time in this species. Worldwide, this virus has...
A 50-year-old man in Italy tried to pass off a silicone arm as his own at a Covid-19 vaccination clinic in an attempt to get a vaccine certificate without actually getting vaccinated.
The cunning act was spotted by a nurse, Filippa Bua, as she was about to administer the vaccine...
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said barely three per cent of Nigeria’s population has been vaccinated against COVID-19 largely due to poor access to the vaccine by developing countries.
Speaking on Sunday, December 5, in Madrid, Spain at the 24th General Assembly of the United Nations World...
Germany has announced new restrictions for people who have not received the Covid-19 vaccine.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday, Dec. 2, that unvaccinated people will be barred from many public places, including non-essential shops and events, unless they have recently recovered from Covid-19
Merkel said: "Culture and leisure nationwide will...
More than 50 people in Norway have been infected with Covid after a Christmas party that is likely to prove the world’s biggest outbreak of the new Omicron variant.
One of the party-goers has tested positive for the omicron variant, and more cases are expected to follow, Oslo’s authorities said on Thursday.
"We are working actively with contact...
Canada has confirmed the detection of two cases of Omicron, a highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus, health officials said in a statement.
The two cases have been traced to two people who travelled to Nigeria.
"Today, the province of Ontario has confirmed two cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in Ottawa, both...
A new coronavirus variant that has been branded the "worst ever" mutation of the disease has already reached Europe, a virologist said today.
A patient in Belgium fell ill with the B.1.1.529 variant of the virus, which was first detected in South Africa.
Belgian Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke said: "We have one case of...
The Austrian government has ordered a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people in an effort to slow the spread of Covid-19 in the country.
Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg on Monday confirmed that millions of citizens would be placed into lockdown from tomorrow amid a worrying trend in infections.
The move, which...
An unvaccinated mum said she does not regret rejecting Covid vaccines in the wake of the death of her newborn third child.
22-year-old Katie Leeming had baby Ivy-Rose Court delivered by caesarean 14 weeks prematurely after she fell ill with coronavirus. A week after the emergency birth on October 13, doctors...
She wrote;
"My babies and I displaying our burden of living with HIV. Kourtney, 9years with 11 tablets, Trevor, 17 years with 20 tablets, Dauglas, 22 years with 3 tablets, Barbara, 32 years 3 tablets daily.
If you still have a chance and choice to stay safe, please do because it...
