Zambia has reported its first local case of polio since 1995. A 2 year old boy was paralyzed by a virus derived from the vaccine, VOA reported on W...
Seven members of the Kavonokia sect were on Wednesday night arrested in Tharaka Nithi for refusing to give information to enumerators. According to...
A man and his wife are being held at Kisumu Central Police Station after attacking a chief and village elder who had accompanied census officers at th...
A World Health Organization panel decided on Friday not to declare an international emergency over Congo’s Ebola outbreak despite its spread to Ugan...
The World Health Organization decided on Friday not to declare an international public health emergency over the Ebola outbreak, despite its recent sp...
Africa could be declared free of endemic “wild” polio early next year if a strain last seen in Nigeria almost three years ago does not resurface, ...
The World Health Organization says Malawi has become the first country to begin immunizing children against malaria, using the only licensed vaccine t...
An outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that has killed more than 700 people and is continuing to spread does not constitute an...
The World Health Organization says that on March 27, India's 1.3 billion people and the entire WHO Southeast Asia region will celebrate five years of ...
Most of Patrick ‘Moreno’ Osunda’s neighbours curse when the rains make the latrines overflow. For him, it’s the smell of money. Osunda is...
China is investigating a manufacturer of medical products following reports that it sold human immunoglobulin for intravenous injection that had possi...
Police in China’s eastern province of Jiangsu have begun an investigation after at least 145 children received expired polio vaccines, the Global Ti...
More than 100 children were given an expired polio vaccine in China, reports from State media said. According to South China Morning Post, 145 babi...
The spread of polio must still be classified as a public health emergency because, while progress has been made towards wiping out the disease, that p...
The Ministry of Health has dispelled reports that two children developed skin lesions after being administered the polio vaccine. In a statement to...
Three Kavonokia and Akorino sect members were on Monday arrested after they blocked public health officials from administering the polio vaccine on th...
By Irene Kabithi Mothers whose children were given the new upgraded polio vaccine are still pouring their worries on social media, some saying the ...
The World Health Organization is preparing for the "worst-case scenario" as it continues to respond to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic o...
Nairobi has been put on high alert following the discovery of a new strain of polio. The Ministry of Health now says it is putting all its resource...
The Government will from Wednesday conduct a polio immunization campaign in different parts of Nairobi. It is a supplementary move aimed at boosti...