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MADAGASCAR: Rift Valley Fever hits island

Rift Valley Fever (RVF) has infected more than 400 people inMadagascar, with at least 17 fatalities, according to the Ministry of Health(MoH). "An outbreak has been confirmed; it will be a bigchallenge to contain," Nestor Ndayimirije, Inter-Country Epidemiologist atthe UN World Health Organisation's (WHO) Eastern and Southern Africa office,told IRIN. The MoH said 59 cases had been positively identified bythe Pasteur Institute of Madagascar, part of a global network devoted tomedical issues...

How To Take Care Of Your Food Allergy?

You will never know what kind of food you’re allergic to if you never had reaction on food you have eaten. Not everyone is allergic to food they have eaten. But there are some who suffer this kind of situation. What about you? Do you have any allergic to something you eat? Are you vomiting after eating peanuts? Or are you itching after taking only a little amount of seafood? Well, there’s a great possibility that you suffer from food allergy... Yes, a person can be allergic to certain foods,...

MAURITANIA: Discrimination, staff shortages mean mental health short changed

Taking her 15 year old daughter to see a psychiatrist was the last resort for Dianaba Dia. For months beforehand she had used a local doctor who prescribed valium to control the girl’s violent seizures. “At first, it was not easy to pass through the gates of the neurological centre – just the word psychiatrist made me afraid!” But after traveling to the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott and consulting doctors at the country’s only mental health centre, she was pleasantly surprised. “He was a...

What is avian flu?

Avian flu describes the form of influenza viruses that ostensibly infects only birds. These can be birds that live in the wild, such as swans, ducks or geese, or birds bred in factory conditions for human consumption, such as chickens or turkeys. It has been a known fact and for some time, that birds, in any form, appear to be widespread carriers of a many natural variations of the flu virus, Experts calculate that there may be as many as fifteen different varieties of influenza affecting the...