By Elizabeth Larkwor BaahTema, June 13, GNA -The Tema Metropolitan Health Directorate has held a sensitisation programme for stakeholders to address the recent monkeypox (MPox) outbreak and the rising ...

Tayma struggles with the most severe version of Epidermolysis Bullosa, also known as butterfly disease, a rare disorder that causes skin to blister and crack ...

Eleven of the 14 patients who were confined at the Southern Philippines Medical Center for confirmed and suspected mpox ...

There has been an outbreak of anthrax in a popular tourist hotspot in Thailand, where one person has died and four others ...

Learn about an unlikely strategy for repelling ticks that involves a compound secreted by the skin of donkeys, which may help ...

Monkeypox Crisis in Freetown: Public Health Emergency or a Donor-Driven Delay?

Zoonotic diseases can be passed from animals to humans (let’s not ... What it is: Despite its name, it’s a skin infection caused by fungi such as microsporum canis. “Ringworm infections can occur in ...

These repellents should be applied to exposed skin ... the progression of the disease to more severe forms. Stronger multi-sectoral collaborations in combating zoonotic malaria through the ...

Some of these zoonotic diseases have a major “spillover ... of infected animals and can infect people through abraded skin. In people, Leptospirosis causes a headache, fever, severe muscle ...

Zoonotic illnesses are diseases humans can get from animals ... You can pick up hookworms through your skin from walking barefoot or playing outside. A young child might also accidentally eat ...

Skin-to-skin contact ... Sicknesses that animals pass to humans are called zoonotic diseases. Bites from infected animals. Some diseases are spread directly from animals to humans through bites ...