Opacity surrounds incidents at scientific facilities, with over 400 cases documented in the last half-century worldwide, including a cloud of bacteria that affected 10,000 people in 2019
The director of the Africa CDC believes the abrupt cutoff of Western aid will cause great suffering to Africans. At the same time, he sees it as an opportunity to emancipate the continent from foreign support
A total of 259,061 people lost their lives in road accidents in the continent in 2021, according to the latest report from the Africa Transport Policy Program
A decade after the worst of the virus’ 40 outbreaks killed 11,300 people, individuals who still bear its physical and mental scars speak out
The injection not only interrupts the transmission of the virus, which kills on average 50% of those who become infected, but also increases the survival rate among those who had already been infected before receiving the dose, according to research by Doctors Without Borders published in ‘The Lancet’
