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Wuhan keen to shake off pandemic label five years on
Jan 22, 2025 (AFP)
The hospital now stands empty, hidden behind more recently built walls -- faded like most traces of the pandemic as locals move on and officials discourage disc...
China marks muted 5th anniversary of first Covid death
Jan 11, 2025 (AFP)
On January 11, 2020, health officials in the central Chinese city of Wuhan announced that a 61-year-old man had died from complications of pneumonia caused by a...
China reports 5 cases of new mpox strain
Jan 09, 2025 (AFP)
Mpox is caused by a virus transmitted to humans by animals but can also spread from person to person through close physical contact. It causes fever, muscular a...
What you need to know about HMPV
Jan 09, 2025 (AFP)
Here is what you need to know about HMPV: - Similar to flu - HMPV stands for "human metapneumovirus" and generally causes a mild infection of the upper respirat...
China says shared Covid information 'without holding anything back'
Dec 31, 2024 (AFP)
Covid-19, which first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2020, went on to kill millions of people, shred economies and overwhelm health sy...
Five years on, WHO urges China to share Covid origins data
Dec 30, 2024 (AFP)
Covid-19 killed millions of people, shredded economies and crippled health systems. "We continue to call on China to share data and access so we can understand ...
US lawmakers back Covid Chinese lab leak theory after two-year probe
Dec 03, 2024 (AFP)
A 520-page report from the Republican-controlled House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic looked at the federal and state-level response, as well a...
Chinese film about Covid-19 wins Taiwan's top Golden Horse prizes
Nov 23, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing banned its entertainers from joining Golden Horse -- dubbed the Chinese-language "Oscars" -- in 2019 after a Taiwanese director voiced support for the i...
Common water disinfectant creates potentially toxic byproduct: study
Nov 21, 2024 (AFP)
Inorganic chloramines have been used for decades to remove pathogens from public water supplies. Though chlorine remains the most widely used disinfectant in th...
Fifth of dengue cases due to climate change: researchers
Nov 16, 2024 (AFP)
Researchers have been working to swiftly demonstrate how human-driven climate change directly contributes to individual extreme weather events such as the hurri...
Spread of dengue fever in Bangladesh worries medics
Nov 07, 2024 (AFP)
The Aedes mosquito that spreads dengue -- identifiable by its black and white striped legs -- breeds in stagnant pools, and cases once slowed after the monsoon ...
Climate shifts and urbanisation drive Nepal dengue surge
Nov 01, 2024 (AFP)
Only a single case of dengue was recorded in Nepal in 2004. Two decades later, thousands of cases are being reported across the country. Once confined to tropic...
Covid lessons learned? UN summit mulls plan for healthy planet, and humans
Oct 25, 2024 (AFP)
At the COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, experts and activists have urged world leaders world to learn the lessons from the estimated seven million l...
WHO launches plan to rein in 'alarming' dengue spread
Oct 03, 2024 (AFP)
"The rapid spread of dengue and other arboviral diseases in recent years is an alarming trend that demands a coordinated response across sectors and across bord...
New study reinforces theory Covid emerged at Chinese market
Sep 19, 2024 (AFP)
Nearly five years after Covid first emerged, the international community has not been able to determine with certainty exactly where the virus came from. The fi...
'Virus hunters' track threats to head off next pandemic
Sep 17, 2024 (AFP)
The coalition of self-described "virus hunters" has uncovered everything from an unusual tick-borne disease in Thailand to a surprise outbreak in Colombia of an...
Italy records year's first indigenous case of dengue fever
Sep 12, 2024 (AFP)
"The person who tested positive for dengue fever is in good clinical condition," announced the provincial health authority of Brescia, in Italy's north, in a st...
As climate warms, S. Korea fights new border threat: malarial mosquitoes
Aug 27, 2024 (AFP)
Despite its advanced healthcare service and decades of determined efforts, achieving "malaria-free" status has remained elusive for South Korea, largely thanks ...
US patient dies from rare mosquito-borne disease
Aug 27, 2024 (AFP)
The patient, identified only as an adult from the town of Hampstead, was hospitalized with severe central nervous system disease and later succumbed to the illn...
China to screen arrivals for mpox symptoms
Aug 16, 2024 (AFP)
People travelling from countries where virus outbreaks have occurred, who have been in contact with mpox cases or display symptoms should "take the initiative t...
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