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November 01, 2024
Climate shifts and urbanisation drive Nepal dengue surge

Kathmandu (AFP) Nov 1, 2024
Nepal is fighting a surge in dengue cases, a potentially deadly disease once unheard of in the country's high-altitude Himalayan regions, as climate change and urbanisation nurture fever-bringing mosquitoes in new zones. Only a single case of dengue was recorded in Nepal in 2004. Two decades later, thousands of cases are being reported across the country. Once confined to tropical regions in the country's plains, dengue-carrying mosquitoes have begun breeding in the valleys and even cool mountai ... read more
Covid lessons learned? UN summit mulls plan for healthy planet, and humans
Cali, Colombia (AFP) Oct 25, 2024
The Covid-19 and Ebola outbreaks brought into stark relief the harms that can come to humans if we interfere too much with nature, placing ourselves in contact with animals carrying unknown pathogens. ... more
WHO launches plan to rein in 'alarming' dengue spread
Geneva (AFP) Oct 3, 2024
The World Health Organization announced Thursday a global plan to battle dengue and other diseases carried by mosquitos as they spread faster and further amid climate change. ... more
New study reinforces theory Covid emerged at Chinese market
Paris (AFP) Sept 19, 2024
A study on the origin of Covid-19 provided new evidence on Thursday supporting the theory that humans first caught the virus from infected animals at a Chinese market in late 2019. ... more
'Virus hunters' track threats to head off next pandemic
Bangkok (AFP) Sept 17, 2024
A global network of doctors and laboratories is working to pinpoint emerging viral threats, including many driven by climate change, in a bid to head off the world's next pandemic. ... more
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Italy records year's first indigenous case of dengue fever
Rome (AFP) Sept 12, 2024
Italy has recorded the first indigenous case of dengue fever for 2024 in a patient who had not travelled abroad, Italian health authorities said Thursday. ... more
US patient dies from rare mosquito-borne disease
Washington (AFP) Aug 27, 2024
A person in the northeastern US state of New Hampshire has died after contracting the rare mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus, health authorities announced Tuesday. ... more
As climate warms, S. Korea fights new border threat: malarial mosquitoes
Paju, South Korea (AFP) Aug 27, 2024
Near the heavily fortified border that divides North and South Korea, a monitoring device is working 24-7 - not tracking missiles or troop movements, but catching malaria-carrying mosquitoes that may cross the border. ... more
China to screen arrivals for mpox symptoms
Beijing (AFP) Aug 16, 2024
China announced Friday it will begin screening people and goods entering the country for mpox over the next six months, just two days after the World Health Organization declared the virus a global health emergency. ... more
'Hong Kong's Dr Fauci' sounds alarm on next pandemic
Hong Kong (AFP) July 19, 2024
Hong Kong microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung has done battle with some of the world's worst threats, including the SARS virus he helped isolate and identify. And he has a warning. ... more
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Polio virus found as flies and mosquitoes feast on Gaza's waste
Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories (AFP) July 18, 2024
Polio has been detected in samples of sewage that is starting to take over Gaza in the grip of a devastating war, health authorities in the Hamas-run territory and Israel said Thursday. ... more
Decade since Ebola, Sierra Leone fights another deadly fever
Kenema, Sierra Leone (AFP) July 10, 2024
Rummaging in the darkness of a tiny mud and thatch home in eastern Sierra Leone, ecologist James Koninga plucks a metal rat trap from under a collapsed bedframe. ... more
Decade since Ebola, Sierra Leone fights another deadly fever
Kenema, Sierra Leone (AFP) July 4, 2024
Rummaging in the darkness of a tiny mud and thatch home in eastern Sierra Leone, ecologist James Koninga plucks a metal rat trap from under a collapsed bedframe. ... more
Togo tightens Covid controls after hajj deaths
Lome (AFP) June 29, 2024
Togo has become the second West African country to implement Covid screening tests and face masks for pilgrims returning from the annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage in Mecca. ... more
E.coli warning before UK's Henley regatta
London (AFP) June 27, 2024
UK water quality campaigners warned on Friday of "very high E.coli" levels in the River Thames west of London, just days before rowers were due to take part in the Henley Royal Regatta. ... more
Novo Nordisk says weight-loss drug Wegovy approved in China

Copenhagen (AFP) June 26, 2024
Novo Nordisk's flagship weight-loss drug Wegovy has been approved for use in China, the Danish pharmaceutical giant said. 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 people who are overweight or obese with at least one weight-related comorbidity. It was not clear when Wegovy would be formally launched in China, where Novo Nordisk's sales rose by 11 percent last year at constant ex ... read more
US surgeon general declares gun violence a 'public health crisis'
Washington (AFP) June 25, 2024
The US surgeon general on Tuesday issued a landmark advisory declaring gun violence a "public health crisis" and calling for wide-ranging firearm controls that have historically been quashed by stiff political opposition. ... more

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Pressure on cholera vaccine stocks 'decreasing': Gavi alliance
Paris (AFP) June 18, 2024
A resurgence of cholera across Africa has driven an urgent need for more vaccine doses, but stock shortages have hampered the fight against the increasing outbreaks of the deadly disease. ... more
Dengue, mosquito-borne diseases rising in Europe: EU agency
Stockholm (AFP) June 11, 2024
Cases of dengue and other mosquito-borne diseases are rising significantly in Europe as climate change creates warmer conditions that help invasive mosquitos spread, the EU's health agency warned on Tuesday. ... more
UN warns of disease risk after Papua New Guinea landslide
Port Moresby (AFP) May 30, 2024
Survivors of a deadly Papua New Guinea landslide face a "significant risk of disease outbreak" and are yet to receive sufficient food and clean water supplies, a United Nations agency said Thursday. ... more
Cases of bacterial disease rise in Brazil's flooded south
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) May 28, 2024
Brazilian authorities on Tuesday reported an increase in cases of leptospirosis, a bacterial disease transmitted by rats, in the flooded south, parts of which have been under water for a month. ... more
China releases journalist jailed for Covid-19 coverage
Shanghai (AFP) May 22, 2024
Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan has been released from prison after serving four years for her coverage of Beijing's Covid-19 response, according to a video released by media watchdog Reporters Without Borders. ... more
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