Symptoms of virus include fever, muscle pain, diarrhoea, vomiting, and, in severe cases, life-threatening blood loss ...

A total of 16 students from a primary school in Gauteng Province, South Africa, were taken to hospital for suspected food poisoning on Wednesday, raising alarms about food safety in schools, ...

For people in the Central African Republic, clean drinking water is hard to come by, owing to a lack of investment in the ...

South Africa is a middle-income emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; and a stock exchange ...

vomiting, and muscle aches. Hospital visits have been stopped at any facilities where health workers tested positive for the ...

Many people with COVID also experience gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea. SARS-CoV-2, or the virus that causes COVID, has been shown to affect cells in the gut.

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The head of Africa’s top public health agency says that an outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg fever in Rwanda is under ...

Analysis - Ticks are responsible for spreading over 25 human and animal diseases. While you may be familiar with some of these - such as Lyme disease - there are many others you've probably never ...

Marburg is a highly infectious viral disease that can cause haemorrhagic fever and is clinically similar to Ebola. The Africa ...

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LONDON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - At least five African countries are working on what could be the world's first joint "debt-for-nature" swap to raise at least $2 billion to protect a coral-rich swathe ...