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Pandemics and epidemics
17 posts
H5N1-infected teenager now in ‘critical condition’ say Canadian doctors
[ad_1] A Canadian teenager hospitalised with suspected H5N1 bird flu is now in critical condition, health authorities said…
November 13, 2024
Why the next pandemic may ‘catch us napping’ despite all we’ve learned from Covid
[ad_1] But while great scientific and technological strides were made when countries came together to fight Covid-19, epidemics…
October 14, 2024
Bird flu kills 47 tigers, three lions and a panther at Vietnamese zoos
[ad_1] On a global scale, experts are especially concerned about the seemingly unstoppable outbreak of bird flu in…
October 4, 2024
Slow testing could undermine our bird flu response
[ad_1] The number of cow herds across the US testing positive for avian flu influenza (H5N1) continues to…
May 22, 2024
West Africa grapples with a wave of diphtheria as vaccine coverage slips
[ad_1] Across Africa there is a pool of some 10 million children who have never had the vaccination.…
December 14, 2023
Backlash as major Covid origins report suggests virus could have leaked from a US lab
[ad_1] The Lancet is facing a backlash after a major Covid-19 Commission report suggested the disease may have…
September 15, 2022
The history of the Monkeypox – 11 things you need to know
[ad_1] The virus was supposed to have been eliminated in the DRC. But scientists feared this case, in…
May 29, 2022
Health experts in Congo scramble to contain fresh Ebola outbreak as man dies
[ad_1] Health workers are rushing to stop the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 14th Ebola outbreak in a remote…
April 25, 2022
Fourth Covid jabs to be rolled out to about five million vulnerable people starting from next week
[ad_1] It has been around six months since the oldest and most vulnerable members of society last received…
March 20, 2022
Hundreds feared killed after Russia bombs Mariupol theater sheltering civilians
[ad_1] City authorities said they were trying to establish the number of liability, but the entrance to the…
March 17, 2022