The World Health Organization on Thursday declared the outbreak of a novel coronavirus a global health emergency, an acknowledgment of the risk the virus poses to countries beyond its origin in China and of the need for a more coordinated international response to the outbreak. This declaration was made because
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is aware that many Chinese nationals are expected to return to Nigeria following the Lunar New Year holiday, as well as Nigerian business travellers who travel to China regularly. The World Health Organization (WHO) has not placed any travel restrictions following the outbreak
BEWARE: LASSA FEVER IS IN TOWN
WHAT IS LASSA FEVER? Lassa fever is an animal-borne acute viral illness, discovered in 1969 in Lassa town, Nigeria. It is endemic in parts of West Africa including Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and Nigeria; however, other neighboring countries are also at risk, as the animal vector for the Lassa virus,
WORLD DIABETES DAY, 2019
Diabetes is a chronic, progressive disease but people with diabetes can live long, healthy lives with good diabetes management. This includes managing not only blood glucose (glycaemia) but also risk factors for complications such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol. These can be managed with a healthy diet, regular
ABOUT BREAST CANCER
What Is Breast Cancer? Breast cancer is a disease in which cells in the breast grow out of control. There are different kinds of breast cancer. The kind of breast cancer depends on which cells in the breast turn into cancer. Breast cancer can spread outside the breast through blood vessels
Breast Cancer Awareness Month, October
The Breast Cancer Awareness Month, marked in countries across the world every October, helps to increase attention and support for the awareness, early detection and treatment as well as palliative care of this disease. There are about 1.38 million new cases and 458 000 deaths from breast cancer each year
TOGETHER WE CAN RESTORE MORE SIGHTS
10/10/19 World Vision Day, 2019 VISION 2020: The Right to Sight was launched by World Health Organization (WHO) in 1999, as a global initiative that aims to eliminate avoidable blindness and its causes by the year 2020. And the World Sight Day was also initiated as an annual day of
WORLD SIGHT DAY, 2019
ABOUT WORLD SIGHT DAY World Sight Day is an annual day of awareness to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment, and is held on the second Thursday in October each year. Established by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2000, World Sight Day is the main advocacy event for raising