The death toll from a new SARS-like China virus that has infected hundreds rose to 17, authorities said on Wednesday. Officials in Hubei, the central Chinese province whose capital is the epicentre of the epidemic, said at a televised news conference that the total number of people in the region infected with the new coronavirus
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Report reaching Fox Channel indicates that Lassa fever has killed two medical doctors and 17 others in Kano and Ondo states. The Ondo State Government said 16 people had so far been killed by the deadly Lassa fever while 84 cases were recorded in the state this year. The Punch reports. Also, the Director of
Read moreThe mysterious respiratory illness has sickened about 300 people in Asia. In the United States, a case of the new coronavirus from China has been confirmed in a patient just north of Seattle, federal health officials said Tuesday. The mysterious pneumonia-like illness has killed at least six people and sickened hundreds of others in Asia,
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A patient died on Saturday from a mysterious illness after an outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, according to the local health commission. The emergence of the virus is raising concerns as hundreds of millions of people are getting ready to travel during the Chinese New Year holiday later this month. Experts who
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E-cigarette use significantly increases the risk of developing chronic lung diseases like asthma, bronchitis, emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to a long term study published Monday that also found vaping was less harmful than smoking. The results of the research, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, are unrelated to the recent
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The Director General of the National Agency for Control of AIDS, Dr. Gambo Aliyu, says Nigeria has achieved 60 percent control of HIV infection rate, stating that the agency aims to achieve at least, 90 percent. He noted that, in terms of treatment, the figures of those who have access to anti-retroviral medications are also
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…Its below the expectations of civil servants – protesting doctors Doctors in Lagos State, under the aegis of Medical Guild, have rejected the new minimum wage paid to workers by the state government, saying it is below the expectations of civil servants. Chairman of the Guild, Dr. Babajide Saheed, made the doctors’ decision known on
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