Resident doctors in the Alex Ekweme Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki numbering over two hundred, Monday, embarked on a 3-day warning strike. The strike, according to
A mysterious SARS-like virus has killed a third person, spread around China and reached a third Asian country, authorities said Monday, fuelling fears of a
China reported 17 new cases of the mysterious SARS-like virus on Sunday, including three in a severe condition, heightening fears ahead of China’s Lunar New
The true scale of the outbreak of a mysterious SARS-like virus in China is likely far bigger than officially reported, scientists have warned, as countries
The number of people already infected by the mystery virus emerging in China is far greater than official figures suggest, scientists have told the BBC.
Measles has killed more than 6,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the World Health Organization has said. In a statement Tuesday, the organization
A 12-year-old girl has been found alive after being buried under snow for 18 hours when an avalanche hit her home in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Samina
A second person has died in China from a new, pneumonia-like virus, local officials have announced. They say the death was recorded in the eastern
One of the 180 sheep saved from a capsized ship who will be able to live out their days after an outpouring of sympathy from
Lurking deep inside some tumours are “factories” full of immune cells that help the body fight a rearguard action against cancer and are key to
Indian police have sealed a private hospital and charged staff for manslaughter after a newborn baby was mauled to death by dogs inside an operating
An enormous sinkhole swallowed a bus and pedestrians in northwest China, sparking an explosion, killing six people and leaving four more missing, state media
