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Fifth of dengue cases due to climate change: researchers
Paris (AFP) Nov 16, 2024 Climate change is responsible for nearly a fifth of the record number of dengue cases worldwide this year, US researchers said on Saturday, seeking to shine a light on how rising temperatures help spread disease. Researchers have been working to swiftly demonstrate how human-driven climate change directly contributes to individual extreme weather events such as the hurricanes, fires, droughts and floods that have battered the world this year. But linking how global warming affects health - such ... read more |
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Spread of dengue fever in Bangladesh worries medicsDhaka (AFP) Nov 7, 2024 Bangladesh is struggling to tamp down a surge in dengue cases as climate change turns the disease into a year-round crisis, leaving some paediatric wards packed with children squeezed two to a bed. ... more 
Climate shifts and urbanisation drive Nepal dengue surgeKathmandu (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. ... more 
Covid lessons learned? UN summit mulls plan for healthy planet, and humansCali, 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 spreadGeneva (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 |
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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 pandemicHong 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 
Polio virus found as flies and mosquitoes feast on Gaza's wasteGaza 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 feverKenema, 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 feverKenema, 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 |
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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. Senegal became the first country in the region to implement voluntary tests, suspecting that a number of the some 1,300 deaths - according to a Saudi tally - are down to a respiratory syndrome ailment such as Covid-19. A Togolese government statement on Friday said hajj pilgrims would have to undergo compulsory Covid tests and ... read more 
E.coli warning before UK's Henley regattaLondon (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 |
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Novo Nordisk says weight-loss drug Wegovy approved in ChinaCopenhagen (AFP) June 26, 2024 Novo Nordisk's flagship weight-loss drug Wegovy has been approved for use in China, the Danish pharmaceutical giant said. ... 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 
Pressure on cholera vaccine stocks 'decreasing': Gavi allianceParis (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 agencyStockholm (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 landslidePort 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 |
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