The World Health Organization has raised alarm over a worsening Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo after dozens of deaths were reported. World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo a public health emergency of international concern following reports of around 246 suspected cases and 80 deaths in Ituri province….
Further medical tests found no evidence the US doctor was infected with hantavirus. Dr. Stephen Kornfeld, the American doctor who initially tested positive for hantavirus after falling ill aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship, has now tested negative following additional examinations in Nebraska. Doctors at the University of Nebraska Medical Center said the original result…
Africa’s top health agency has confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo after dozens of deaths were reported. Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has declared an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, with at least 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths recorded in Ituri province. Most of the…
French health officials say a cruise ship passenger infected with hantavirus is battling a severe form of the disease. A French passenger linked to the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship is in intensive care in France after developing a severe cardiopulmonary form of the virus. French Health Minister Stéphanie Rist said the…
The World Health Organization says there is currently no evidence of a larger hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there is “no sign” of a wider hantavirus outbreak following the evacuation of passengers from the virus-hit MV Hondius cruise ship. Speaking in Madrid, Tedros…
Doctors and health experts have officially renamed PCOS to better reflect the full impact of the condition on women’s health. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), one of the most common hormonal disorders affecting women, has been renamed Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS). The name change was announced in a global consensus published in The Lancet, with…
Health authorities confirmed three more hantavirus cases as the final passengers disembarked from the virus-hit MV Hondius. The last passengers aboard the MV Hondius have left the cruise ship after a deadly hantavirus outbreak linked to the vessel. The ship departed Tenerife for the Netherlands on Monday after its remaining six passengers disembarked alongside several…
US health officials confirmed one American passenger has tested positive for hantavirus after evacuation from the MV Hondius cruise ship. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says one American passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship has tested PCR positive for hantavirus, while another passenger is currently showing mild symptoms linked to…
Health officials in France have isolated cruise ship passengers after one evacuee developed symptoms linked to the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius. A French passenger evacuated from the virus-hit MV Hondius cruise ship has shown symptoms of hantavirus during a repatriation flight from Tenerife to Paris, French authorities confirmed. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu…
UK military launches emergency mission to support a Briton linked to the MV Hondius virus outbreak. The British Army has parachuted medical personnel and emergency supplies onto the remote island of Tristan da Cunha to help a British man with suspected hantavirus linked to the MV Hondius outbreak. The man, who lives on the isolated…
