Health

One person in Sweden has a confirmed case of monkeypox, health authorities said on Thursday following similar cases in Europe and North America. The rare disease usually manifests itself through fever, muscle aches, swollen lymph nodes,...

By John Ikani  North Korea has ordered a strict national lockdown after confirming its first official Covid infections. Although the size of the outbreak wasn't immediately known, test samples collected on Sunday from an unspecified number...

By Agedah Ebizimo The stigma, shame and discrimination associated with HIV has constrained people from testing to ascertain their status, the good news is that there exist a HIV Self-Test Kit that can be used from...

By John Ikani Health Authorities in South Africa have reported a 60 percent daily spike in Covid-19 infections between Wednesday and Thursday. The development sparked fears of a possible fifth wave as 9,757 new cases were...

By John Ikani A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in the northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), bringing the total number of confirmed cases to three, since the 14th Ebola outbreak was declared...

Beijing closed dozens of subway stations and expanded Covid restrictions on Wednesday, constricting movement around the Chinese capital despite logging only dozens of daily cases. China has been battling its worst coronavirus flare-up since the early...