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World
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Region
9/13/2024 6:48:24 PM
Morocco has recorded a case of mpox in the tourist city of Marrakesh, the first in north Africa since the WHO declared an international emergency last month, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday.
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Africa
9/12/2024 9:36:55 PM
The head of the African Union's health watchdog said Thursday it was time for the West to show it had learnt from the Covid pandemic and not abandon Africa during the mpox outbreak.
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World
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Africa
9/4/2024 5:44:00 PM
The first delivery of mpox vaccines will arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, the African Union's health watchdog said.
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Life & Style
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Health
8/14/2024 1:38:23 PM
Alarmed by the surge in mpox cases, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has taken the unprecedented step of declaring the outbreak sweeping through African countries a continental public health emergency. The World Health Organization (WHO) is also meeting to decide whether to trigger its highest global alert level over the epidemic.
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World
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Africa
8/13/2024 6:02:18 PM
The African Union's health watchdog on Tuesday declared a public health emergency over the growing mpox outbreak on the continent, saying the move is a "clarion call for action".
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Egypt
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Health
6/9/2024 1:22:29 PM
Egypt is keen to support the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention initiative, which aims to establish a continental platform for dialogue on mechanisms for innovative financing of the health sector in Africa, Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait said Sunday in a statement.
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Life & Style
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Style
2/2/2023 4:06:37 PM
Africa's public health agency says countries with deadly cholera outbreaks on the continent have no ``immediate access'' to vaccines amid a global supply shortage.
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World
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Africa
12/1/2022 3:22:58 PM
Africa's top public health body says the continent is set to receive its first batch of mpox vaccines as a donation from South Korea.
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Life & Style
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Health
11/23/2022 8:43:01 PM
The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say measles immunization has dropped significantly since the coronavirus pandemic began, resulting in a record high of nearly 40 million children missing a vaccine dose last year.
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World
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Africa
5/31/2022 11:14:02 PM
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 11,643,461 as of Tuesday evening, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.
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World
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Africa
2/1/2022 4:58:10 PM
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 10,785,043 as of Monday evening, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.
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Life & Style
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Health
1/22/2022 3:59:30 PM
Three studies released Friday offered more evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are standing up to the omicron variant, at least among people who received booster shots
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Egypt
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Tourism
1/18/2022 11:51:00 PM
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised on Tuesday against travel to 22 nations including Egypt, Israel and Australia over the increasing number of coronavirus cases in these countries recently.
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World
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Africa
1/13/2022 2:16:18 PM
The director of Africa's Centers for Disease Control said the organization is talking to Pfizer about bringing its COVID-19 treatment pill to the continent, which has just passed 10 million cases.
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World
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Africa
12/19/2021 3:03:00 PM
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 9,143,184 cases as of late Saturday evening, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).
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Life & Style
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Health
11/26/2021 7:16:03 PM
Science mourns the death of Egyptian-American Doctor Sherif Zaki - the founder and chief of the Infectious Disease Pathology Branch in the Coordinating Centre for Infectious Diseases in Atlanta, Georgia.
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World
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Africa
10/17/2021 11:07:00 AM
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) announced that the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Africa hit 8,420,043 ones, while the death toll from the disease stood at 215,265.
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World
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International
9/22/2021 11:15:19 PM
Much of the discussion at the meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices focused on the possibility of a scaled-back booster program targeted to older people or perhaps health care workers
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Business
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Economy
9/14/2021 4:56:57 PM
The CDC s African Private Credit Fund Strategy also aims to kickstart a signalling effect by attracting more commercial investors to African markets, which will in turn help develop reliable, long-term, private debt platforms
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World
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Africa
9/13/2021 12:25:52 PM
Over 7,302,000 people have recovered in the continent, Africa CDC added in a statement
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