The 14 reported cases in 2024 aligns with some of the lowest annual totals of human cases ever reported, following 14 cases in 2023 and 13 cases in 2022.

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Guinea has eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis commonly known as sleeping sickness as a public health problem according ...

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Salomon Kosoma, a fisherman and farmer in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is also a community ...

Ms Badolé suffers from loiasis, a chronic filarial disease caused by the Loa loa parasite, also known as the African eye worm ...

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A recent study has learnt that all 11 species of ticks found to have bitten humans in the island-state between 2002 and 2023 are capable of carrying one or more harmful microbes.

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As temperatures drop, outdoor cats may spend more time indoors, which calls for attention to a health threat — the “cat ...