Infectious Diseases news

Subscribe & Follow

Advertise your job vacancies

Trending

2 days 7 days 30 days By Industry

Princess Mkabayi Mall in KZN officially opens its doors

V&A Waterfront welcomes Lego certified store

November set to bring higher fuel prices as official announcement looms

BrandMapp's Stuart Lowe passes away, industry pays tribute

Danette Breitenbach

Media24 starts transition to a fully digital media company

Biz Most Read Award winners October 2024

View on iono.fm, Apple, Spotify or downloadable app

Source: Reuters.

Congo launches its first mpox vaccination campaignDjaffar Al Katanty

Vials of the Jynneos smallpox and monkeypox vaccine are placed on a table during a clinic offered by the Pima County Department of Public Health at Abrams Public Health Center in Tucson, Arizona, US, 20 August 2022. Reuters/Rebecca Noble/File Photo

African CDC: More than $800m pledged for mpox response

By Anait Miridzhanian 27 Sep 2024

Source: Reuters.

Gavi to buy 500,000 mpox vaccine doses from Bavarian Nordic

By Jennifer Rigby 19 Sep 2024

There is currently no established cure for Ebola – could antibody treatments be the answer? AHMED JALLANZO/EPA

Guinea pigs cured of Ebola with antibodies, raising hopes for treatment in humans

Pramila Rajil & Alain Townsend 4 Apr 2019

Photo: United Nations

#CycloneIdai: Cholera prevention and other relief efforts underway

3 Apr 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Ask Dr Google. The pros and cons of online diagnosis

1 Apr 2019

Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa

WHO report: 630-million years of healthy life lost in Africa

28 Mar 2019

Kissing bug: spreader of Chagas disease. schlyx/Shutterstock

Venezuela: region's infectious crisis is a disaster of hemispheric proportions

Martin Llewellyn 26 Mar 2019

Working with communities is essential to end Ebola

Working with communities is essential to end Ebola

22 Mar 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

WHO puts influenza plan in place

12 Mar 2019

Health workers in Liberia at the height of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak. Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA

Ebola in the DRC: the race is on between research and the virus

Yap Boum, Jean-Jacques Muyembe & Sabue Mulangu 8 Mar 2019

STIs are a serious health threat. Shutterstock

Preventing sexually transmitted infections: why South Africa isn't winning

Tendesayi Kufa-Chakezha 15 Feb 2019

Vaccines are an important health intervention. Shutterstock

Why anti-vaccine beliefs and ideas spread so fast on the internet

Marina Joubert & Francois van Schalkwyk 14 Feb 2019

Mali was one of the West African countries affected by the biggest Ebola outbreak ever recorded from 2014 to 2016. Shutterstock

Why Ebola vaccine on trial in the DRC is raising hopes

Shirin Ashraf & Arthur Wickenhagen 11 Feb 2019

Is medicine cure? Treatment? Healing? Understanding? Or a bit of all those things. Kenishiroti/Shutterstock

What is medicine? Why it's so important to answer this question

1 Feb 2019

Personalised medicine aims to tailor treatment according to each person’s genetic makeup. Shutterstock

Why African countries need to give genomic research a major boost

Lamech Mwapagha 30 Jan 2019

Healthworkers vaccinated against Ebola in South Sudan

29 Jan 2019

Immunisation coverage stagnating in Africa

Immunisation coverage stagnating in Africa

25 Jan 2019

10 biggest threats to global health

10 biggest threats to global health

15 Jan 2019

Child ready to receive measles vaccine, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. Christine Stabell Benn, Author provided

Vaccines have health effects beyond protecting against target diseases

Christine Stabell Benn 15 Jan 2019

A portable DNA sequencer in action. UGA CAES/Extension/Flickr

DNA sequencing can help fight epidemics - but there are privacy risks

Liam Shaw & Nicola C Sugden 14 Jan 2019

Measles cases spike globally due to gaps in vaccination coverage

Measles cases spike globally due to gaps in vaccination coverage

24 Dec 2018

While women in sub-Saharan Africa live longer than men, many of these extra years are lived in poor health. Shutterstock

People in Africa live longer. But their health is poor in those extra years

Charles Shey Wiysonge 20 Dec 2018

#BestofBiz 2018: Healthcare

#BestofBiz 2018: Healthcare

18 Dec 2018

A Congolese child saluting a MONUSCO peacekeeper. Abel Kavanagh/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Worsening Ebola crisis leaves UN Security Council with few options

Mark Eccleston-Turner 13 Dec 2018

Professor Kelly Chibale. Photo: Je'nine May

R&D is the pipeline for science jobs in Africa

5 Dec 2018

Minister of Health of Burkina Faso, Professor Nicolas Meda and Minister of Health of Rwanda, Dr Diane Gashumba

Addressing neglected tropical diseases

4 Dec 2018

The largest number of HIV-exposed but uninfected children are in South Africa. Shutterstock

Babies born to mums with HIV face higher risks even though they're HIV negative

Amy Slogrove, Kathleen M Powis & Mary-Ann Davies 29 Nov 2018

X-ray of the lungs in a 5-year-old child who has pneumonia. Shutterstock

It's time to go back to basics in the fight against childhood pneumonia

Nicole Wolter 14 Nov 2018

Study: More black South Africans are donating blood

Study: More black South Africans are donating blood

31 Oct 2018

Nigerian children receiving the polio vaccine in Lagos. EPA

Why eradicating polio everywhere has been so hard to crack

Melinda Suchard 26 Oct 2018

Professor Souleymane Mboup

Health is essential for Africa to cash in on its human capital

Souleymane Mboup 26 Oct 2018

Bizcommunity Recruitment in Africa Focus

Bizcommunity Recruitment in Africa Focus

Bizcommunity.com 23 Oct 2018

More news

Photo: United Nations

#CycloneIdai: Cholera prevention and other relief efforts underway

3 Apr 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Ask Dr Google. The pros and cons of online diagnosis

1 Apr 2019

Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa

WHO report: 630-million years of healthy life lost in Africa

28 Mar 2019

Kissing bug: spreader of Chagas disease. schlyx/Shutterstock

Venezuela: region's infectious crisis is a disaster of hemispheric proportions

Martin Llewellyn 26 Mar 2019

Working with communities is essential to end Ebola

Working with communities is essential to end Ebola

22 Mar 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

WHO puts influenza plan in place

12 Mar 2019

Health workers in Liberia at the height of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak. Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA

Ebola in the DRC: the race is on between research and the virus

Yap Boum, Jean-Jacques Muyembe & Sabue Mulangu 8 Mar 2019

STIs are a serious health threat. Shutterstock

Preventing sexually transmitted infections: why South Africa isn't winning

Tendesayi Kufa-Chakezha 15 Feb 2019

Vaccines are an important health intervention. Shutterstock

Why anti-vaccine beliefs and ideas spread so fast on the internet

Marina Joubert & Francois van Schalkwyk 14 Feb 2019

Mali was one of the West African countries affected by the biggest Ebola outbreak ever recorded from 2014 to 2016. Shutterstock

Why Ebola vaccine on trial in the DRC is raising hopes

Shirin Ashraf & Arthur Wickenhagen 11 Feb 2019

Is medicine cure? Treatment? Healing? Understanding? Or a bit of all those things. Kenishiroti/Shutterstock

What is medicine? Why it's so important to answer this question

1 Feb 2019

Personalised medicine aims to tailor treatment according to each person’s genetic makeup. Shutterstock

Why African countries need to give genomic research a major boost

Lamech Mwapagha 30 Jan 2019

Healthworkers vaccinated against Ebola in South Sudan

29 Jan 2019

Immunisation coverage stagnating in Africa

Immunisation coverage stagnating in Africa

25 Jan 2019

10 biggest threats to global health

10 biggest threats to global health

15 Jan 2019

Child ready to receive measles vaccine, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. Christine Stabell Benn, Author provided

Vaccines have health effects beyond protecting against target diseases

Christine Stabell Benn 15 Jan 2019

A portable DNA sequencer in action. UGA CAES/Extension/Flickr

DNA sequencing can help fight epidemics - but there are privacy risks

Liam Shaw & Nicola C Sugden 14 Jan 2019

Measles cases spike globally due to gaps in vaccination coverage

Measles cases spike globally due to gaps in vaccination coverage

24 Dec 2018

While women in sub-Saharan Africa live longer than men, many of these extra years are lived in poor health. Shutterstock

People in Africa live longer. But their health is poor in those extra years

Charles Shey Wiysonge 20 Dec 2018

#BestofBiz 2018: Healthcare

#BestofBiz 2018: Healthcare

18 Dec 2018

A Congolese child saluting a MONUSCO peacekeeper. Abel Kavanagh/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Worsening Ebola crisis leaves UN Security Council with few options

Mark Eccleston-Turner 13 Dec 2018

Professor Kelly Chibale. Photo: Je'nine May

R&D is the pipeline for science jobs in Africa

5 Dec 2018

Minister of Health of Burkina Faso, Professor Nicolas Meda and Minister of Health of Rwanda, Dr Diane Gashumba

Addressing neglected tropical diseases

4 Dec 2018

The largest number of HIV-exposed but uninfected children are in South Africa. Shutterstock

Babies born to mums with HIV face higher risks even though they're HIV negative

Amy Slogrove, Kathleen M Powis & Mary-Ann Davies 29 Nov 2018

X-ray of the lungs in a 5-year-old child who has pneumonia. Shutterstock

It's time to go back to basics in the fight against childhood pneumonia

Nicole Wolter 14 Nov 2018

Study: More black South Africans are donating blood

Study: More black South Africans are donating blood

31 Oct 2018

Nigerian children receiving the polio vaccine in Lagos. EPA

Why eradicating polio everywhere has been so hard to crack

Melinda Suchard 26 Oct 2018

Professor Souleymane Mboup

Health is essential for Africa to cash in on its human capital

Souleymane Mboup 26 Oct 2018

Bizcommunity Recruitment in Africa Focus

Bizcommunity Recruitment in Africa Focus

Bizcommunity.com 23 Oct 2018

The best Biz summer holiday (content) package ever!

The best Biz summer holiday (content) package ever!

Bizcommunity.com 15 Oct 2018

Professot Ian Sanne, Right to Care CEO

Call for hepatitis C elimination programme

8 Oct 2018

New African Food Safety Index launches

New African Food Safety Index launches

3 Oct 2018

Flu plane: are we really ready for a global pandemic?

Mark Eccleston-Turner 17 Sep 2018

Climate change, water and the spread of diseases: connecting the dots differently

Lenore Manderson 17 Sep 2018

Red Cross steps in to curb cholera and typhoid in Zim

Red Cross steps in to curb cholera and typhoid in Zim

14 Sep 2018

Dr Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, founding director of the University’s Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health

Conflict and its toll on child health

7 Sep 2018

Dr Matshidiso Moeti

African health ministers pledge to end cholera by 2030

29 Aug 2018

Vosloorus hospital confirms Klebsiella pneumonia outbreak

Vosloorus hospital confirms Klebsiella pneumonia outbreak

23 Aug 2018

Tests underway to find cause of diarrhoea outbreak

Tests underway to find cause of diarrhoea outbreak

7 Aug 2018

Mapping neglected tropical diseases

18 Jul 2018

Let's do Biz