NOFO CK26-0107: Building Partnerships for Prevention of Emerging & Reemerging Infectious Diseases
CDC has issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) focused on building national partnerships to prevent, detect, and respond to emerging and re-emerging infectious disease threats (opportunity n...
Cólera | Uma doença totalmente evitável mas que continua a matar
A vacina para a cólera custa cerca de 1,29€ por dose. E, mesmo assim, a escassez global desta vacina obrigou à redução de duas doses para apenas uma, enfranquecendo a proteção e impondo uma escolha...
“This is on track to be one of the largest Ebola outbreaks in history. It’s already the third largest and growing quickly,” says CFR global health expert Stephanie Psaki.
Psaki, who worked to trac...
Ebola is "a disease that you get when you care for someone, for your husband or your partner or your child or your mother,” reports @who representative Anaïs Legand in Geneva.
What to do once you detect cases of foot and mouth disease
Once foot and mouth enters a herd, it spreads very fast. Here's all that you can do in case of positive cases.
For more information: https://www.woah.org/en/disease/foot-and-mouth-disease/#ui-id-3
Foot and mouth disease: biosecurity principles you need to know
Foot and mouth disease can spread like wildfire. What are the biosecurity measures that can help prevent the spread and control of the disease?
تفشٍ جديد لمرض الإيبولا في جمهورية الكونغو الديمقراطية وأوغندا
15 مايو/أيار 2026، أعلنت وزارة الصحة في جمهورية الكونغو الديمقراطية رسميًا عن تفشّي الإيبولا في شمال شرق البلاد، حيث تعمل فرق أطباء بلا حدود. ومنذ ذلك الحين، أفادت السلطات بتسجيل نحو 500 حالة مشتبه...
In an interview with CNN, Senior Global Health Advisor Dr. Abdou Sebushishe examines the context and challenges of this outbreak in the DRC and broader region, and explains how International Medica...
This outbreak, alongside the hantavirus one, shows why international threats need an international response, why the world needs the International Health Regulations, and why it needs WHO.
WHO Dir...
Navigating Long COVID (1080)
Long COVID is a serious illness that can result in chronic conditions, require comprehensive care, and can sometimes cause disability. Anyone who had a SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes C...
...try experiences in integrating health services to accelerate the elimination of communicable diseases in the Americas.
Integrated health services delivery linking prevention, diag...
Hantaviruses are zoonotic viruses that naturally infect rodents and are occasionally transmitted to humans.
Learn how to prevent it and what to do during an outbreak. Watch this explainer on #han...
An updated review of the clinical aspects of measles in a changing regional context, highlighting key indicators for timely identification and appropriate management, as well as the importance of s...
Find out more about the disease and how it can be prevented, treated and eliminated.
https://www.who.int/health-topics/trachoma#tab=tab_1
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/trachoma
In this module pupils will get to know more about vaccination and how it can protect them from infectious diseases.