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Study: Climate change making vampire bats with rabies migrate toward U.S.
Nov 27, 2023 (UPI)
The Virginia Tech field study, which appears in the Ecography journal, predicts vampire bats, which currently live in Mexico and Central and South America, coul...
'Still suffocated': Mourning China's zero-Covid protests a year on
Nov 26, 2023 (AFP)
But for many involved in what became China's most widespread demonstrations in decades, it's impossible to erase the memory of the events of last autumn. In the...
What we know so far about surging respiratory illnesses in China
Nov 24, 2023 (AFP)
However Chinese health authorities have said the rising infections are a mix of already known viruses and are linked to the country's first full cold season aft...
WHO asks China for more data on respiratory illness
Nov 23, 2023 (AFP)
Northern China has reported an increase in "influenza-like illness" since mid-October when compared to the same period in the previous three years, the WHO said...
China reports no 'unusual or novel pathogens' in respiratory illnesses upsurge
Nov 23, 2023 (AFP)
Northern China has recorded an increase in "influenza-like illness" since mid-October when compared to the same period in the previous three years, said the WHO...
Disco, dogs help Hong Kong's elderly out of post-Covid isolation
Nov 22, 2023 (AFP)
The 71-year-old and about 30 others were part of a pilot programme called "Noon-D" -- for "afternoon disco" -- intended to reach out to an increasingly isolated...
Top Chinese virus expert dead at 60
Oct 27, 2023 (AFP)
Wu Zunyou was a leading expert at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, known as the China CDC, who regularly appeared in public to justify Bei...
Bird flu kills more than 500 marine mammals in Brazil
Oct 25, 2023 (AFP)
Brazil declared an animal health emergency over avian flu in May after confirming multiple cases in wild birds, and reported its first outbreak of the disease a...
Study discounts belief 1918 flu pandemic targeted healthy young adults
Oct 09, 2023 (UPI)
Researchers at McMaster University and the University of Colorado Boulder announced Monday that there is "no concrete scientific evidence" to support historical...
Bangladesh swamped by record dengue deaths
Oct 05, 2023 (AFP)
More than 1,000 people have died this year in the nation's worst recorded spate of the mosquito-borne disease, which scientists say is increasing in frequency d...
WHO recommends second vaccine against malaria
Oct 02, 2023 (UPI)
The recommendation adds the R21/Matrix-M to the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine that was recommended by the WHO in 2021 but faces high demand despite limited supply. Both va...
UN warns of disease threat in flood-hit Libyan city
Sep 18, 2023 (AFP)
The massive flash flood that has killed over 3,000 people and left thousands more missing came as the war-scarred North African country was lashed by the hurric...
Dire hygiene spells new threat for Morocco quake survivors
Sep 17, 2023 (AFP)
"I haven't taken a shower in seven days," said the woman from Amizmiz at the foot of the High Atlas range, about 60 kilometres (40 miles) southwest of Marrakech...
WHO calls on China for 'full access' for Covid investigators: FT
Sep 17, 2023 (AFP)
"We're pressing China to give full access, and we are asking countries to raise it during their bilateral meetings -- (to urge Beijing) to co-operate," Tedros A...
India's Nipah virus outbreak: what do we know so far?
Sep 15, 2023 (AFP)
Here is a look at what we know so far: - What is the Nipah virus? - The first Nipah outbreak was recorded in 1998 after the virus spread among pig farmers in Ma...
Pharma firm, labs share tech for Covid research equity: WHO
Aug 29, 2023 (AFP)
The UN health agency's Covid-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) was founded in May 2020 as a platform to share knowledge and intellectual property and ensure a m...
US widens blacklist of firms over Uyghur forced labor concerns
Aug 01, 2023 (AFP)
Battery maker Camel Group, along with spices and extract company Chenguang Biotech Group, are the latest to be included in the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Ac...
Ancient pathogens emerging from melting ice and permafrost risk eroding ecosystems
Jul 28, 2023 (SPX)
While melting glaciers and permafrost risk the re-emergence of many types of dormant pathogens, the potential destruction to modern ecosystems posed by these mi...
Croatia targets latest climate-change threat: mosquitoes
Jul 20, 2023 (AFP)
The release is part of a pilot project focused on eradicating invasive Asian Tiger mosquitoes known for carrying sicknesses like Dengue Fever, Chikungunya and Z...
MIT researchers to lead a new center for continuous mRNA manufacturing
Jul 14, 2023 (SPX)
The resulting pilot-scale system is intended to improve society's ability to respond to future pandemics as well as accelerate the development and production of...
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