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The World Health Organization insisted Thursday that a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic did not mark the beginning of a Covid-like crisis.
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“But as we said, we want to repeat again, such transmission is very rare and only happens due to very close contact between people.”
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THE Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, Lagos State Branch, yesterday, warned over what it described as a “dangerous depletion” of pharmacists in the Lagos State Ministry of Health, cautioning that the situation is already weakening drug regulation and opening the door to statutory breaches in the state’s healthcare system.
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Spain on Tuesday said it would not decide where a cruise ship with hantavirus cases would dock until epidemiological data
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has said there is no cause for panic following a suspected outbreak of rodent-borne hantavirus aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, stressing that the risk to the general public remains low.
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Hantavirus, the disease which has caused a deadly outbreak on a cruise ship in the southern Atlantic, circulates in rodents and can be deadly when transmitted to humans.
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It was a testimony-laden Saturday as the first anniversary celebration of The Prostate Clinic, TPC, turned into a sobering national health warning, with survivors, including retired Major General Enenche John Enenche, and others recounting their encounters with prostate cancer and the life-saving interventions that followed.
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Public health experts have warned that Nigeria is facing a growing nutrition crisis, driven by poor diets and weak food regulation, with far-reaching consequences for public health and productivity. They
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As the world marks World Immunisation Week 2026, fresh concerns have been raised over Nigeria’s growing number of unimmunised children, calling for urgent and coordinated action to close the gap.
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As the world marks the 2026 World Malaria Day, Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries Limited has declared that scaling local drug production and investing in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, APIs, are critical to ending malaria in Nigeria, which still bears the heaviest global burden of the disease.
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