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WHO Investigates Undiagnosed Disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

January 21, 2025 Jacqueline Powers

Image: NIH Image Gallery; CC BY-NC 2.0 At the end of October 2024, an outbreak of an unknown pathogen emerged in the Panzi health zone

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Wild Poliovirus in Africa Discovered: First Case in 5 Years

March 15, 2022September 17, 2024 Caroline Pane

Image Credit: United Nations Photo. CC-BY-NC-ND. A 3-year-old in Malawi has the first case of wild-type poliovirus in Africa in 5 years, and the first

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Food Insecurity in Eastern and Southern Africa due to El NiƱo

March 23, 2016January 25, 2023 Kara Sewalk

The United Nations Children’s Fund has stated that approximately 11 million children in eastern and southern Africa face hunger, disease and water shortage due to

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Research & Policy

The P. Vivax Comeback — Is Malaria Beating Natural Defense?

December 9, 2013January 25, 2023 Karen Biala

Africans who were thought to be protected against malaria infection by the Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) parasite now seem to be at risk for the

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Math Model to Predict Malaria Outbreaks in Africa

June 18, 2012January 25, 2023 Lauren Edmundson

Researchers from Ethiopia and Norway have created a mathematical model that can predict a malaria outbreak up to two months before it actually occurs. The

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