Background Although over 70% of Ghanaians utilize herbal medicines for their healthcare needs, not all herbal medicines (HM) on the open market are licensed. Market surveillance (MS) a...

Background Since the outbreak of COVID-19, China has been insisting on a dynamic zero clearing strategy. At present, the strategy has successfully ensured the residents’ normal life an...

Background On January 8, 2022, one student was detected with COVID-19 infection during his hospital visit in Tianjin City, the investigation was conducted on the same day to identify t...

Background Hospital COVID-19 cluster with consecutive transmission can cause healthcare-system to collapse. Healthcare capacities could be preserved by preventing in-hospital infection...

Background COVID-19 vaccines are effective against infections and outcomes; however, breakthrough infections (VBT) are increasingly reported, possibly due to waning of vaccine-induced ...

Background COVID-19 is a highly transmittable and pathogenic viral infection, patients requiring hospitalization were six times higher in those with preexisting medical conditions. How...

Background The spread of the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, discovered in China in January 2020, led to a pandemic as early as March 2020. On March 13, 2021, The number of Morocco confirm...

Background To assess the impact of COVID-19 on mortality, public health decisions makers need to know the true burden of mortality especially those exacerbated by COVID-19. However, Si...

Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a contagious airborne virus causing Coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19). This virus regularly mutates and eme...

Background A national active surveillance for COVID-19 was initiated after the first case was detected in Bangladesh on 08 March 2020. The government imposed nationwide lockdown on 26 ...

Background Malaria is a major global infection and is estimated to have killed 409,000 people worldwide in 2019,In 2020, China did not report any indigenous malaria cases for four cons...

Background Kollam district of Kerala has been consistently reporting high Dengue fever incidence for the past five years. A serosurvey conducted in 2017-19 in Kollam found all four ser...

Background Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) was implemented in Rwanda among districts with high transmission of malaria including Ngoma District. Thus, this study was conducted to assess...

Background Ethiopia is classified as high malaria endemic area with 60% of population at risk. Despite the initiation of malaria elimination program in Bedenno district of Ethiopia in ...

Background Yellow fever (YF) is a viral haemorrhagic fever with fatality of 20%-50%. In September 2021, the Savannah Region of Ghana confirmed focal YF outbreaks in two districts. As c...

Background On January 12, 2022, the Gunungkidul District Health Office received a report of suspected leptospirosis from Dukuh Mojosari, Saptosari Subdistrict. Investigations were carr...

Background Malaria Outbreak is the occurrence of number of cases above what is expected in a place and particular period. Moreover, there were an estimated 216 million malaria cases wo...

Background On December 2, 2021, Bantul District Health Office (DHO) reported that 21 people in Genengan hamlet, Jambidan, Banguntapan had chikungunya fever symptoms. Until January 2022...

Background The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has caused a global pandemic with 510,270,667 cases and 6,233,526 deaths as of April 29, 2022. Oyo State recorded her first case of COVID-19 on Mar...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus, remains the single most prevalent health threat which continues to have widespread social and health impact of w...

Background On June 2, 2020, the epidemiology service of the Western Health Department was alerted about two suspected cases of COVID-19, by officials of the Civil Prison of Croix-des B...

Background Due to low COVID-19 testing in Guinea, the proportion of people exposed to the virus by age groups is unknown. This study assessed seroprevalence of COVID-19 in Matoto distr...

Background Guinea’s first case of coronavirus 19 (COVID-19) was in March 2020. On 17 April 2020, an inmate at Conakry Central Prison tested positive for Covid-9 post-mortem. An investi...

Background SARS-CoV-2 antibodies can be detected in the blood of people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 or who have had the disease. In July/2021, the province of La Vega, Do...