Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Cameroon restricts Eq Guinea border activity over fever deaths Cameroonian authorities said the border movement restrictions were imposed in view of ‘the high risk of importation’ of the unidentified illness. ADVERTISEMENT Cameroon has restricted movement along its border with Equatorial Guinea following “several unexplained deaths” from an unknown illness that causes hemorrhagic fever, Minister of Public Health Malachie Manaouda said on Friday. ADVERTISEMENT The restrictions were imposed in view of “the high risk of importation of this disease and in order to detect and respond to any cases at an early stage”, he said in a statement. ADVERTISEMENT Investigations are under way and epidemiological surveillance has been strengthened with the support of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers

Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Effort to eradicate Guinea worm disease enters ‘last mile’ The final years of the eradication effort, led by the US’s Carter Center, will be the ‘most difficult’, expert says. ADVERTISEMENT Only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide last year, according to the Carter Center in the United States. ADVERTISEMENT After decades of progress, Adam Weiss, director of The Carter Center’s Guinea Worm Eradication Program, cautioned the end phase of the global effort to eradicate the parasitic disease will be “the most difficult”. ADVERTISEMENT The Atlanta-based centre – founded by former US President Jimmy Carter and his wife Eleanor Rosalynn Carter – said on Tuesday that the 13 infections occurred in four countries in sub-Saharan Africa. ADVERTISEMENT Six human cases were reported in Chad,