The South Africa Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development announced an outbreak of African Swine Fever in a small scale setting in the Eastern Cape Province. Botswana seems an unlikely place for an AIDS epidemic. ... said the latest outbreak was directly linked to low vaccination rates. LONDON -- The World Health Organization says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad — a week after the … With the coronavirus pandemic, the situation has become even worse. The World Health Organization (WHO) is building a better future for people everywhere. Botswana is an African paradise. This article is more than 1 year old. A new polio outbreak in Sudan has been linked to the oral polio vaccine that uses a weakened form of the virus.. News of the outbreak comes a … Health lays the foundation for vibrant and productive communities, stronger economies, safer nations and a better world. Vast and underpopulated, it is largely free of the teeming slums, war zones, and inner-city drug cultures that epidemiologists say are typical niches for the human immunodeficiency virus. The discovery of a 5,000-year-old house in China filled with skeletons is evidence of a deadly epidemic. This article covers the timeline of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa and its outbreaks elsewhere. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time. Because of this, Africa’s measles epidemic is now spiking at alarming levels. UN forced to admit Gates-Funded vaccine is causing polio outbreak in Africa Bill Gates vaccine program It’s important to note that the oral polio vaccine being pushed on to the African population by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI),a consortium which is supported and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . Furthermore, the continent faces a financing gap in healthcare funding of US $66 billion that leaves facilities understaffed, underfunded and ill-equipped to handle disease outbreaks. Our work touches lives around the world every day – often in invisible ways. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Africa This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease.Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. Polio outbreaks in Africa caused by mutation of strain in vaccine.