• Ghana Infectious Disease Centre (GIDC) is a centre built to improve the medical diagnostic and research capacity of Ghana with regard to infectious diseases...
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  • Commission at GRA. The Ghana Infectious Disease Centre was built because the country did not have an infectious disease centre, so there was a need to...
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    of infectious diseases is the reduction of the prevalence of an infectious disease in the global host population to zero. Two infectious diseases have...
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    An emerging infectious disease (EID) is an infectious disease whose incidence has increased recently (in the past 20 years), and could increase in the...
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    Mpox (category Animal viral diseases)
    Mpox (/ˈɛmpɒks/, EM-poks; formerly known as monkeypox) is an infectious viral disease that can occur in humans and other animals. Symptoms include a rash...
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    outbreak of highly infectious Marburg virus". Reuters. 2022-07-18. Retrieved 2022-07-18. "Ghana Declares First Marburg Virus Disease Outbreak". Bloomberg...
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    The COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome...
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  • First Lady of Ghana to help in the fight against the pandemic. On 24 July, the vice-president commissioned the Ghana Infectious Disease Centre, a 100-bed...
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    protozoa, and parasitic worms (helminths). These diseases are contrasted with the "big three" infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria), which...
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    further investigate the long-term effects of the disease. COVID‑19 transmission occurs when infectious particles are breathed in or come into contact with...
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  • Retrieved 18 March 2021. "Fidelity Bank extends support to the Ghana Infectious Disease Centre". Citi Newsroom. 17 March 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2021. "Over...
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    health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). Mpox is an infectious viral disease that is endemic among small mammals in central areas of Africa;...
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    Ebola (redirect from Ebola virus disease)
    requires consideration of many other infectious diseases such as typhoid fever, shigellosis, rickettsial diseases, cholera, sepsis, borreliosis, EHEC enteritis...
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    Treatment. This includes the Ghana Infectious Disease Centre There was also the expansion of COVID-19 treatment centers across Ghana in order to make available...
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    built across the country such as the Ghana Infectious Disease Centre, to help in the National COVID-19 Treatment. Ghana became the first country to use drone...
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    Muyembe in passing rather than as a co-discoverer. In a 2016 Journal of Infectious Disease article, co-signed by most of the actors from that first outbreak...
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    The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It is the oldest public university in Ghana. The university was founded in 1948...
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    Presidency of Nana Akufo-Addo (category Presidencies of Ghana)
    with the private sector to build the Ghana Infectious Disease Centre which is Ghana's first infectious disease centre. In January 2020, the country adopted...
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    Gordon Awandare (category Academic staff of the University of Ghana)
    University of Ghana. Prior to his appointment in January 2022, He was the founding Director of the West African Center for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens...
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    2022–2023 mpox outbreak (category 2022 disease outbreaks)
    States" (PDF). Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved 27 August 2022. "5 cases of monkeypox confirmed in Ghana". MyJoyOnline.com. Archived...
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    built across the country such as the Ghana Infectious Disease Centre, to help in the National COVID-19 Treatment. Ghana became the first country to use drone...
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    population of Ghana include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, religious affiliations, and other aspects. Ghana's population...
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    Trachoma (category Wikipedia infectious disease articles ready to translate)
    Trachoma is an infectious disease caused by bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. The infection causes a roughening of the inner surface of the eyelids. This...
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    Superspreading event (category Infectious diseases)
    event in which an infectious disease is spread much more than usual, while an unusually contagious organism infected with a disease is known as a superspreader...
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  • Dorothy Yeboah-Manu (category Academic staff of the University of Ghana)
    Ghana's urban areas. She is on the National Faculty of the World Bank Centre of Excellence funded West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens...
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  • the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases at the Geneva University Hospitals and the University of Geneva. Her research considers infectious diseases and...
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    diseases. Housed in LSTM's Centre for Tropical and Infectious Disease the department is a global leader in drug and diagnostics discovery and disease...
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    List of Ebola outbreaks (category 20th-century disease outbreaks)
    records the known occurrences of Ebola virus disease, a highly infectious and acutely lethal viral disease that has afflicted humans and animals primarily...
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    Malaria (category Infectious diseases with eradication efforts)
    Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates. Human malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, fatigue, vomiting...
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    epizootic epidemiologist and disease ecologist whose general multi-disciplinary work focuses on the maintenance of infectious diseases within their hosts and...
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