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Driver shortage delays winter flu programme in UK
Sep 04, 2021 (AFP)
Medics say the campaign offering free flu vaccines to more than 35 million people is even more important this year, after lockdowns for the coronavirus pandemic...
Toll in Niger cholera epidemic reaches 104
Sep 03, 2021 (AFP)
It reported that 2,874 cases of the water-borne disease had been recorded in the capital Niamey and five other regions -- Maradi, Zinder, Dosso, Tahoua and Till...
'Precision of thought and economy of expression': Anthony Fauci reflects on career
Sep 02, 2021 (UPI)
Speaking in an interview published in the journal Science, Fauci said it was not the death threats against him and his family, the media attacks or attacks by R...
Tech conference dumps virus-hit Malaysia, stays in Hong Kong
Sep 02, 2021 (AFP)
The annual RISE Conference brings together CEOs, startups and investors and has already been held in Hong Kong for five years. Organisers said last year they wo...
The PANoptosome: a new frontier in innate immune responses
Sep 02, 2021 (SPX)
The findings offer a new paradigm for understanding the functional and regulatory role that inflammasome sensors and cell death complexes play in infections. Th...
Taiwan receives first batch of politically charged Pfizer vaccines
Sep 02, 2021 (AFP)
The 930,000 doses are the first of 15 million jabs acquired by Foxconn and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), as well as Buddhist charity Tzu Ch...
U.S. Navy, Marine Corps set deadline for mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations
Sep 02, 2021 (UPI)
Both the Navy's memo and one from the Marine Corps, issued Sept. 1, give all active duty members of the service to be fully vaccinated within 90 days from the d...
Canadian philanthropist donates $173M in Australia to fight next pandemic
Aug 31, 2021 (UPI)
Geoffrey Cumming, a Canadian and New Zealand citizen living in Melbourne made the donation to establish the new Cumming Global Centre for Pandemic Therapeutics....
Hong Kong dismisses business pushback over 'zero-Covid' strategy
Aug 31, 2021 (AFP)
The European Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong wrote a rare open letter to Chief Executive Carrie Lam earlier this month warning that the finance hub's business ...
Biden says China still withholding 'critical' info on Covid origins
Aug 28, 2021 (AFP)
The United States, however, does not believe Chinese officials had foreknowledge of the virus before the initial outbreak of the pandemic that has now claimed 4...
Army's COVID-19-detecting dogs show promise, may help against other biological threats
Aug 27, 2021 (UPI)
Researchers at the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center point to promising results from a proof-of-concept study to determine...
Taking guess work out of vaccine development
Aug 27, 2021 (SPX)
Immune response to vaccines is unpredictable, transient and ineffective, largely due to a lack of understanding of the complex mechanisms of action underlying i...
Biden given inconclusive intelligence report on Covid origins
Aug 25, 2021 (AFP)
The assessment, ordered by President Joe Biden 90 days ago, was unable to definitively conclude whether the virus that first emerged in central China had jumped...
WHO experts say urgent search for Covid origins 'stalled'
Aug 25, 2021 (AFP)
An initial report by the team of independent, international experts sent to China by the World Health Organization in January concluded that it was most likely ...
YouTube says it removed 1mn 'dangerous' videos on Covid-19
Aug 25, 2021 (AFP)
The statement by the Google-owned video platform comes as social media platforms are under fire from political leaders for failing to stem the spread of false a...
Most of Africa lacks basic means of preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission
Aug 23, 2021 (SPX)
These measures - known as non-pharmacological public health interventions (NPIs), and including physical distancing or isolation at home to prevent transmission...
Risk for global pandemics higher than previously thought, study finds
Aug 23, 2021 (UPI)
The assessment of new disease outbreaks over the past 400 years found that the probability of a pandemic with similar impact to COVID-19 in a given year is abou...
China reports zero local virus cases as Delta outbreak retreats
Aug 23, 2021 (AFP)
The latest outbreak, which began in mid-July when cleaners at a Nanjing airport tested positive, is the most severe since Covid-19 first surfaced in the central...
Businesses say Hong Kong quarantine threatens financial hub status
Aug 20, 2021 (AFP)
In a rare open letter to chief executive Carrie Lam on Thursday, the European Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong said the city's most recent hardening of measures...
Facebook says it is helping reduce Covid vaccine 'hesitancy'
Aug 18, 2021 (AFP)
In releasing its quarterly transparency report, Facebook said the latest data showed vaccine hesitancy is down by 50 percent among US users of the social networ...
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