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'Hong Kong's Dr Fauci' sounds alarm on next pandemic
Jul 19, 2024 (AFP)
Another pandemic is inevitable and could exact damage far worse than Covid-19, according to the soft-spoken scientist sometimes thought of as Hong Kong's answer...
Polio virus found as flies and mosquitoes feast on Gaza's waste
Jul 18, 2024 (AFP)
The announcement came after a European activist group released a report saying the Gaza Strip is "drowning" in hundreds of thousands of tonnes of human waste an...
Decade since Ebola, Sierra Leone fights another deadly fever
Jul 10, 2024 (AFP)
The 62-year-old belongs to a group of researchers tracking the deadly Lassa fever, a viral haemorrhagic illness endemic in several West African countries and tr...
Togo tightens Covid controls after hajj deaths
Jun 29, 2024 (AFP)
Senegal became the first country in the region to implement voluntary tests, suspecting that a number of the some 1,300 deaths -- according to a Saudi tally -- ...
E.coli warning before UK's Henley regatta
Jun 27, 2024 (AFP)
The discovery comes at a time when the government and privatised water companies are under mounting pressure to curb the high levels of raw sewage pumped into r...
Novo Nordisk says weight-loss drug Wegovy approved in China
Jun 26, 2024 (AFP)
The company -- Europe's largest by market capitalisation -- confirmed to AFP on Tuesday that Beijing had given the green light for the breakthrough treatment in...
US surgeon general declares gun violence a 'public health crisis'
Jun 25, 2024 (AFP)
The advisory by Vivek Murthy, who was nominated by President Joe Biden, is the first such major report on gun violence from a surgeon general, whose office has ...
Pressure on cholera vaccine stocks 'decreasing': Gavi alliance
Jun 18, 2024 (AFP)
But pressure on the supply of doses is now decreasing, said Aurelia Nguyen, chief programme officer of the Gavi vaccine alliance that raises funds to supply vac...
Dengue, mosquito-borne diseases rising in Europe: EU agency
Jun 11, 2024 (AFP)
In 2023, 130 locally acquired cases of dengue were reported in the region comprising the European Union (EU) plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (EEA), compa...
UN warns of disease risk after Papua New Guinea landslide
May 30, 2024 (AFP)
Six days after a mountainside community was buried in a sea of soil, boulders and debris, the United Nations' migration agency said water sources had become tai...
Cases of bacterial disease rise in Brazil's flooded south
May 28, 2024 (AFP)
According to the latest figures from the Rio Grande do Sul State Health Secretariat, five people are confirmed to have died from the disease, while another nine...
China releases journalist jailed for Covid-19 coverage
May 22, 2024 (AFP)
However, rights groups said Zhang was still under surveillance and that her freedom was extremely limited. Zhang, a former lawyer, travelled to the central city...
Hotter, drier, sicker? How a changing planet drives disease
May 10, 2024 (AFP)
Warmer, wetter climates can expand the range of vector species like mosquitos, while habitat loss can push disease-carrying animals into closer contact with hum...
Latin America, Caribbean set for record dengue season
Mar 29, 2024 (AFP)
In less than three months in 2024, regional health authorities have already tallied more than 3.5 million cases and a thousand deaths due to the virus, which is...
US conspiracy theorists monetize 'Disease X' misinformation
Mar 04, 2024 (AFP)
The falsehoods, including that the unknown pathogen indicates an elitist plot to depopulate the earth, appeared to originate in the United States but spilled to...
Malaria jab rollout in Cameroon a 'turning point': Gavi
Jan 22, 2024 (AFP)
The mosquito-borne disease kills more than 600,000 people a year, mainly in Africa, according to the World Health Organization. Following a pilot phase, the RTS...
Chinese laud 'great' Gao Yaojie, dissident doctor and AIDS whistleblower
Dec 12, 2023 (AFP)
Gao Yaojie moved to New York in 2009 after years of harassment by Chinese officials believed to be nursing grudges after she exposed a cover-up of the true exte...
Cholera claims 23 lives in Ethiopia: charity
Nov 30, 2023 (AFP)
Ethiopia, along with neighbouring Kenya and Somalia, have been battered by heavy rains linked to the El Nino weather pattern, triggering flash floods that have ...
Climate change could upturn world malaria fight: WHO
Nov 30, 2023 (AFP)
"The changing climate poses a substantial risk to progress against malaria, particularly in vulnerable regions," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said as th...
Suffering from flu, Pope Francis cancels COP28 trip
Nov 28, 2023 (AFP)
The 86-year-old, who has made protecting the environment a cornerstone of his 10-year papacy, had planned to become the first pontiff to attend the UN event sin...
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