communicable diseases Stories
To mark TB Awareness Week, the facility is conducting free TB testing, aiming to reach those who might otherwise go undiagnosed.
The affected animals exhibit symptoms such as thick white nasal discharge, laboured breathing, teary eyes, swollen lymph nodes, immobility, and eventu...
Currently, over 5,000 patients in Kenya rely on dialysis to survive, while nearly 5 million Kenyans are living with chronic kidney disease.
The campaign, backed by a presidential directive, aims to immunize 22 million cattle and 50 million goats over two years.
Thanks to lessons learned from the 2023 Marburg outbreak, Tanzania’s public health system was better equipped to handle this crisis.
The timing is crucial, as livestock vessels have already docked at the Lamu Port, preparing to export disease-free animals to Oman.
Although AI adoption in Kenya is still in its early stages, it promises to enhance the capabilities of surgeons, reduce human error and provide safer...
The mysterious illness has left residents experiencing severe diarrhea with bloody stools, fever, and intense headaches, with symptoms persisting for...
Should a previously unknown pathogen be identified as the cause, health authorities will need to increase measures to contain the spread of the diseas...
Perhaps the most controversial trend is the rise in diabetes drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro being flaunted as weight loss miracles.
Yet, for something so small, flaxseeds carry impressive nutritional benefits—ones that could transform your heart health, digestion, and even your ski...
Despite efforts to control it, challenges like poor healthcare access, poverty, malnutrition, and displacement continue to fuel its spread.
The freeze has also affected about 41,000 workers, mainly in the health sector, with counties struggling to absorb them.
Over the past decade, mpox, Marburg, and Ebola have collectively claimed tens of thousands of lives and cost billions of dollars in containment and mi...
In 2021-2022, approximately 63.5 per cent of the country's HIV programme funding came from foreign sources, with PEPFAR being the largest contributor.
Uganda this week confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it.
The 2023 Kenya Vital Statistics data reveals that communicable diseases accounted for 43.4 per cent of all deaths, a sharp rise from 32.8 per cent in...
Illnesses such as sleeping sickness, rabies, leprosy, and guinea worm disease continue to affect more than one billion people around the world, especi...
Beef prices in the affected counties have reportedly surged from Sh520 to Sh660 per kilo, while goat meat now costs Sh750, up from Sh600.
Symptoms include severe cramping, bleeding after 5-6 days, and, in untreated cases, death within 9-10 days.
