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Cameroon Health

Cameroonians Returning From Nigeria are Locked Up

Cameroon Journal, Buea, Aug. 22 - Reports from the South-West region say over one hundred Cameroonians returning from Nigeria are currently held at a police post in Ekok, a Cameroonian border town with Nigeria. [..] It is alleged that they are being held in a tight cell poorly ventilated and there are fears that all the detainees would be infected with the deadly virus, if any among them was infected while in Nigeria. Ref. Source 7

Health Cameroon

Elephantiasis on the decline in Cameroon. Lymphatic filariasis -- a parasitic infection commonly known as elephantiasis -- is among the 10 neglected tropical diseases that the World Health Organization is aiming to eliminate by 2020. In Cameroon, large-scale annual mass drug administration efforts are successfully curbing rates of LF, researchers now report. Source 9r.

Cameroon Health Health & Special Psychology

Risk of non-infectious elephantiasis mapped in Cameroon. Both the etiology and demographics of podoconiosis, a non-infectious disease which causes massive swelling of the legs, are poorly understood. To help contribute to the global atlas of podoconiosis knowledge, researchers have now described the distribution of podoconiosis in Cameroon. Source 1r.

Health Cameroon

Contact with monkeys and apes puts populations at risk. Animal diseases that infect humans are a major threat to human health, and diseases often spillover to humans from nonhuman primates. Now, researchers have carried out an extensive social sciences evaluation of how populations in Cameroon interact with nonhuman primates, pointing toward behaviors that could put people at risk of infection with new diseases. Source 6q.