Members of the DA in Gauteng have shown their unhappiness with the handling of the foot-and-mouth (FMD) crisis by party leader and Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen, calling for the Gauteng ...

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Health developments range from the official end of the Marburg outbreak in Ethiopia to the launch of a central health data repository by Africa CDC. At the same time, efforts against neglected ...

The National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) has heightened surveillance and preparedness measures following ...

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More than 100 deaths have been confirmed across South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, with the rains expected to continue through February.

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Ethiopia declared the end of an outbreak of Marburg, a virus in the same family as Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

Ethiopia has declared the end of an outbreak of Marburg virus, the World Health Organization said on Monday, after the disease killed at least nine people.