NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population reported today the first monkeypox case in the country. Officials say, as part of its ongoing follow-up of the epidemiological situation,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reported an additional 218 lab confirmed COVID-19 cases Thursday, bringing the country total...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has found its way to Africa and to date, 34 of the 54 countries in the African continent have reported cases–Algeria, Egypt,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews UN officials reported a coronavirus disease 2019 case (COVID-19) case in Senegal, the latest country to  report a case on the African continent. The case-patient...

Egypt, Algeria and Republic of South Africa are the African countries most at risk for coronavirus COVID-19 importation in the continent, due to high air traffic with the contaminated Chinese provinces....

By NewsDesk @bactiman63 To add to a report earlier on the first COVID-19 case in Egypt, and in Africa, the Africa CDC released a statement saying the patient is male, 33 years old, of foreign origin and...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population and the World Health Organization (WHO) released a joint statement Friday (computer translated) announcing the first...

Antibiotics to treat the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness have been delivered to nearly 300,000 people in Egypt.  It was the first mass drug administration (MDA) of its kind in the country...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 British health officials are advising travelers to Egypt of a number of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infections reported in people who traveled to the Hurghada...

On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a temporary ban on the importation of  dogs from Egypt due to the risk of importing rabies. Given three recent cases of rabid dogs...