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Moderna signs agreement towards making mRNA medicine in China
Jul 05, 2023 (AFP)
The announcement is among the latest signs China is open for foreign business after years of pandemic-induced isolation, although memories of Beijing's disrupti...
No evidence Covid created in Chinese lab: US intelligence
Jun 24, 2023 (AFP)
In a declassified report, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said they had no information backing recent claims that three scientists at...
Brimful clinics, cemeteries as dengue ravages Peru
Jun 17, 2023 (AFP)
Near the border with Ecuador, Peru's Piura region is battling a new health crisis even as the South American country is still recovering from the world's highes...
13 dead from Congo haemorrhagic fever in Iraq this year
May 13, 2023 (AFP)
Nearly 100 other people have been infected by Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in Iraq, where the disease claimed many more victims last year. In 2022, a...
Study: Covid-19 has reduced diverse urban interactions
May 01, 2023 (SPX)
Examining the movement of people in four U.S. cities before and after the onset of the pandemic, the study found a 15 to 30 percent decrease in the number of vi...
Vaccine printer could help vaccines reach more people
Apr 26, 2023 (SPX)
MIT researchers have come up with a possible solution to this problem: a mobile vaccine printer that could be scaled up to produce hundreds of vaccine doses in ...
Mozambique cholera cases surge tenfold after cyclone
Apr 25, 2023 (AFP)
"More than 28,000 cases of cholera have now been recorded in Mozambique," Guy Taylor, spokesman for the UN children's agency in Mozambique, told a media briefin...
MIT-developed printer brings on-demand vaccine production a step closer
Apr 24, 2023 (UPI)
The vaccine can be delivered via thumbnail-sized patches that contain hundreds of microneedles printed with ink that contains vaccine molecules encapsulated in ...
Malaria cases spike in Malawi, Pakistan after 'climate-driven' disasters
Apr 24, 2023 (AFP)
Cases in Pakistan last year, after devastating floods left a third of the country under water, rose four-fold to 1.6 million, according to the World Health Orga...
Bird flu requires urgent national coordinated response, researchers urge
Apr 19, 2023 (UPI)
We've been dealing with low pathogenic avian influenza for decades in the poultry industry, but this is different," said Jennifer Mullinax, assistant professor ...
First H3N8 bird flu death recorded in China
Apr 11, 2023 (AFP)
H3N8 is known to have been circulating since 2002 after first emerging in North American waterfowl. It is known to infect horses, dogs and seals. It had not bee...
In Mexican jungle, scientists prepare for future pandemics
Apr 07, 2023 (AFP)
The goal of the Franco-Mexican project is to detect diseases -- known as zoonoses -- transmitted from animals to humans in tropical climates. Bats are under scr...
Why are animal-to-human diseases on the rise?
Apr 07, 2023 (AFP)
- What's a zoonosis? - A zoonosis (plural zoonoses) is a disease or infection transmitted from vertebrate animals to people, and vice versa. The pathogens invol...
'We need to know': WHO says China has more on Covid origin
Apr 06, 2023 (AFP)
"Without full access to the information that China has... all hypotheses are on the table," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva. "That's why we ...
Climate change spurring surge in dengue, chikungunya: WHO
Apr 05, 2023 (AFP)
Experts with the United Nations health agency sounded the alarm over swelling numbers of cases of dengue and chikungunya, and warned new epidemics of zika could...
Japan to scrap virus tests on arrival from China
Apr 03, 2023 (AFP)
From Wednesday, arrivals from China will have to show proof of vaccination or a negative result obtained before departure -- "just the same as all the other tra...
WHO warns Cyclone Freddy raising 'major' health risks
Mar 23, 2023 (AFP)
In a statement, the United Nations agency said that torrential downpours and flooding had destroyed over 300 health facilities in Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambi...
China approves first domestic mRNA vaccine for Covid-19
Mar 22, 2023 (AFP)
The vaccine, developed by CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd, has been approved for "emergency use" by Beijing's health regulator, the company said in a statement. I...
Malawi says cholera crisis risks worsening after Cyclone Freddy
Mar 20, 2023 (AFP)
The country was already battling its deadliest cholera outbreak on record when the storm landed last week, causing mudslides and flooding, killing 476 and displ...
Doctor who exposed China's 2003 SARS cover-up dies at 91
Mar 15, 2023 (AFP)
Jiang Yanyong, then a doctor in a Beijing military hospital, angered authorities when he informed foreign media of China's attempts to downplay the outbreak of ...
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