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Egypt
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Health
6/8/2025 6:03:37 PM
Egypt’s animal health situation remains “stable and reassuring” despite the regional spread of epidemic and transboundary diseases, Hamed El-Aknes, head of the General Organization for Veterinary Services (GOVS), said on Sunday.
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World
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War in Sudan
5/29/2025 5:16:00 PM
A cholera outbreak in Sudan's capital has killed 70 people in two days, health officials said, as Khartoum battles a fast-spreading epidemic amid a collapse of basic services.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
4/23/2025 12:34:16 PM
Germany, France and Britain on Wednesday called on Israel to stop blocking humanitarian aid into Gaza, warning of "an acute risk of starvation, epidemic disease and death".
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World
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International
1/16/2025 6:01:03 PM
The World Health Organization appealed Thursday for $1.5 billion for emergency operations this year, warning that conflict, climate change, epidemics and displacement had converged to create an "unprecedented global health crisis".
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World
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War in Sudan
11/26/2024 12:34:34 PM
The United Nations humanitarian chief raised the alarm on Monday over an "epidemic of sexual violence" against women in war-torn Sudan, saying the world "must do better".
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Life & Style
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Health
11/20/2024 2:04:59 PM
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, director of the Department for Epidemic and Pandemic Threat Management at the World Health Organization (WHO), spoke to Ahram Online during her participation in the Seventh World Innovation Summit for Health in Doha about the lessons learned from COVID-19 and the need to be prepared for a next pandemic.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/22/2024 9:02:00 AM
Lessons learned from the Covid pandemic have left the world in a much better position to tackle the current mpox epidemic raging in Africa, according to the Gavi vaccine alliance.
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World
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Africa
9/18/2024 10:28:56 AM
One day in August, Aynalem was on her way to university in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia when armed men suddenly stopped the bus and climbed aboard.
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World
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Africa
9/10/2024 9:44:16 PM
Democratic Republic of Congo received on Tuesday 50,000 more vaccine doses from the United States to fight the country's mpox epidemic, adding to some 200,000 donated by the European Union.
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Life & Style
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Health
8/28/2024 1:16:47 PM
The growing mpox outbreaks in Africa that triggered the World Health Organization’s emergency declaration are largely the result of decades of neglect and the global community’s inability to stop sporadic epidemics among a population with little immunity against the smallpox-related disease, leading African scientists said.
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Life & Style
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Health
8/22/2024 8:21:22 PM
An mpox outbreak spreading across several African countries, which the World Health Organisation has called a global emergency, has caused a spike in online disinformation about the viral disease.
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World
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Africa
8/18/2024 7:07:19 PM
An ever-growing number of patients have been flocking to a Goma hospital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where a rapidly-spreading epidemic of mpox has erupted in recent months.
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World
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War in Sudan
8/17/2024 8:28:34 PM
Sudan's health minister on Saturday declared a cholera epidemic after weeks of heavy rain in the war-torn country, in a video released by his ministry.
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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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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/31/2024 1:06:20 PM
The health ministry in Gaza has declared the Palestinian territory a "polio epidemic area," accusing Israel's military campaign of destroying health infrastructure, which it says led to the recurrence of the virus.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/27/2024 3:01:23 PM
Humanity is suffering from an "extreme heat epidemic," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned, calling for action to limit the impacts of heat waves intensified by climate change.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
1/4/2024 11:19:56 PM
The spectre of epidemics is looming over Gaza as hundreds of thousands of displaced people risk the contraction of infectious diseases, reports Alaa Al-Mashharawi from Gaza.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/11/2023 12:02:13 PM
PEPFAR program is endangered, which officials say has saved 25 million lives in 55 countries from Ukraine to Brazil to Indonesia. That includes the lives of 5.5 million infants born HIV-free.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
8/30/2023 11:19:00 PM
BRICS’ invitation to Egypt to join the increasingly influential economic bloc last week is definitely a positive step that should be warmly welcomed.
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World
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Africa
8/30/2023 5:15:25 PM
France condemned the toppling of Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba on Wednesday which could represent another setback for Paris in Africa where friendly governments have been falling in an "epidemic" of coups.
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