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by Alex Whiting HPV prevention and vaccines help reduce the number of women dying from cervical cancer but new portable screening tools and new types of laboratory tests will improve early diagnosis and treatment of the disease. New advances in cervical cancer screening — the fourth most common cancer among women — have the potential to save many women’s lives, their developers say. While outcomes for women with cervical cancer have improved overall in recent years, the mortality rate from the disease is still too high. Despite the fact that cervical cancer is highly treatable if diagnosed early enough, more than 340,000 women died from the disease in 2020. The majority of deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries where women often have limited access to screening services, according to the World Health Organization. Even when women are tested, there may be a delay of several months before they get the results and, if they test positive, another delay before they receive treatm

Ghana has reported its first suspected case of Marburg virus disease (MVD), after initial samples were taken from two patients who died after showing positive symptoms for the dengue virus. Key points: WHO says it is working with Ghanaian authorities to prepare for a possible outbreak The Ghana Health Service says no new cases have been reported since samples were taken two weeks ago There are 34 people quarantined The samples have been sent to the Pasteur Institute in Senegal, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Collaborative Center, for processing before being officially confirmed as cases. The patients, who were both from the southern Ashanti region but were not related, were showing symptoms including diarrhea, fever, nausea and vomiting. They were taken to a district hospital in the Ashanti area, but later died. “No new cases have been reported since the two samples were taken two weeks ago,” the Ghana Health Service said in a statement. The service said 34 people who had contac