The US has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency following a spike in cases.
It comes less than two weeks after the World Health Organization (WHO) issued its highest emergency alert following a worldwide surge in cases.
Cases have topped 6,600 in the US, according to health officials.
The decision...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in response to the monkeypox outbreak, becoming the second state in three days to take the step.
Governor Gavin Newsom said the declaration will help California coordinate a government-wide response, seek more vaccines and lead outreach and education efforts on...
A man who has lived with HIV since the 1980s has become the fourth person to be cured of the disease as announced by AIDS researchers on Wednesday July 27.
The 66-year-old man named the "City of Hope" patient after the Californian center where he was treated, was cured of HIV after...
There have been more than 18,000 cases of monkeypox reported globally from 78 countries, with the majority in Europe, the World Health Organization has said.
So far, 98% of cases outside the countries in Africa where the virus is endemic have been reported in men who have sex with men,...
Eight persons have tested positive for Monkeypox in Edo state as confirmed by the state's ministry of health.
Commissioner for Health in the state, Prof. Akoria Obehi told newsmen on Monday July 25 that the Ministry has ramped up surveillance and other activities to curb the spread of the infectious disease.
Obehi...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the monkeypox outbreak to be a global health emergency following its 'extraordinary' spread to more than 70 countries.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the decision to issue the declaration despite a lack of consensus among experts serving on the U.N. health agency's emergency...
Ghana has officially confirmed two cases of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola.
Tests conducted in Ghana came back positive on July 10, but the results had to be verified by a laboratory in Senegal for the cases to be considered confirmed, according to the World...
Scientists have warned about a super Gonorrhoea which poses a 'major global threat' after an Austrian man caught a drug-resistant version of the STI.
The unidentified man, in his 50s, became infected after having unprotected sex with a prostitute while on holiday in Cambodia in April.
Five days later, when he returned home,...
Highly-contagious polio is spreading in the UK for the first time in years, leading UK health officials to declare a national incident.
Traces of the polio virus have been found in sewage in London.
The infectious disease - which can cause paralysis and death - was found during a routine check after...
Chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden and a leading official in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Dr Fauci has tested positive for COVID-19.
U.S National Institutes of Health said in a statement that 81-year-old Fauci is fully vaccinated and has been boosted twice. He is experiencing mild symptoms, and has...
The World Health Organization has announced that it is working with experts to come up with a new name for monkeypox.
The announcement comes after more than 30 scientists wrote last week about the "urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatising" name for the virus and the disease it causes.
The...
Ghana has recorded five cases of monkeypox in the Eastern, Western and Greater Accra regions.
Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye made the announcement at a press briefing on Wednesday, June 8. He revealed that “one of the cases was recorded in a Ghanaian who travelled from...
For the first time, a small clinical trial in the United States showed 100% eradication of the cancer disease in patients at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.
Although the trial was done on a small scale, it has raised hopes that the world may soon be able...
The federal government has banned the sale and consumption of bush meat in a bid to curb the spread of monkepox disease.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Dr Mohammad Abubakar on Tuesday May 31, directed hunters and dealers of bush meat in the country to stop the business.
Abubakar also urged Nigerians...
Nine people have died of monkeypox in Congo in 2022 while Nigeria has recorded its first death from the disease this year, the countries’ health authorities said, even as at least 20 countries continue to grapple with sudden outbreaks not seen in years.
Dr. Aime Alongo, chief of the Sankuru...
A husband suffered from memory loss caused by afternoon sex with his wife, according to a new paper by medics.
The report released in the May edition of the Irish Medical Journal, detailed how the 66-year-old man experienced Transient Global Amnesia (TGA) within 10 minutes of sexual intercourse, Mail Online reports.
Medics at the...
The Spanish government has donated 4.4 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to the Federal Government towards containing the spread of the Coronavirus
This is contained in a statement by the embassy titled “No one will be safe until we are all safe” in Abuja on Wednesday.
The statement...
The health department in Canadian province of Quebec on Tuesday May 24, confirmed 15 cases of monkeypox.
Canada's federal health minister also disclosed that more samples from other parts of the country were being sent to a laboratory in Winnipeg for testing.
Jean-Yves Duclos said;
"We expect more cases to be confirmed in the...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has warned that there are no specific treatments available for the monkeypox infection following the outbreak in Europe and other countires.
The centre also urged Nigerians to take certain measures to prevent contracting the disease.
The NCDC’s post on its website read: “There are no specific treatments...
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,...
