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Africa intensifies its efforts to control mpox; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Covid-19, Featured, Featured Story, Government policy, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter / By Lalita Panicker

Researchers and public health officials in Africa are intensifying their battle against mpox, a neglected infectious disease that has circulated for a long time on the continent and suddenly gained notoriety in 2022 when it started to spread rapidly in Europe and North America. https://www.science.org/content/article/africa-intensifies-battle-against-mpox-alarming-outbreaks-continue? At a meeting last week in Kinshasa, the capital of …

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Dengue fever surges in Brazil; The latest health stories from around the world

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Brazil is seeing an unprecedented surge in dengue, a viral disease that can cause excruciating pains and is sometimes fatal. An unusually hot rainy season, along with rapid, unplanned urbanization, have fuelled its spread this year. Health officials have reported more than 1 million suspected cases in January and February, four times as many as …

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Gonorrhoea designated “priority pathogen” following increase in antibiotic resistance; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Featured, Featured Story, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter / By Lalita Panicker

Gonorrhoea is an old affliction. The book of Leviticus mentions a contagious condition involving the continuous emission of semen and a painful erection. Only 2,500 years later, in the mid-20th century, did the discovery of antibiotics bring relief. But not, perhaps, for long. Decades of exposure to antibiotics have led N. gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes the disease, …

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USAID slashes funding for scheme identifying zoonotic diseases; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Featured, Featured Story, Government policy, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter, Noncommunicable diseases / By Lalita Panicker

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has prematurely ended a $125 million program aimed at identifying viruses that might harm humans in animals. Many see this as a fallout from the concern that researchers studying bat viruses may have triggered the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-cancels-program-aimed-identifying-potential-pandemic-viruses? USAID launched the program, known as the Discovery & Exploration …

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US to negotiate on prices for a number of prescription drugs; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Access to Healthcare, Featured, Featured Story, Government policy, International, News, Newsletter, Noncommunicable diseases / By Lalita Panicker

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced its first list of 10 prescription drugs whose prices will be open for negotiation in 2023 and 2024. Any settled price will become effective in 2026. The HHS will be working through the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the provisions of …

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US Senate approves budget increase for biomedical research; The latest health stories from around the world

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To the relief of biomedical research advocates, a US Senate spending panel has approved a modest budget increase of 2% for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The bump to $47.8 billion roughly matches President Joe Biden’s request for the 2024 fiscal year that begins this fall. Although below the rate of biomedical inflation, it …

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WHO declares an end to COVID-19 emergency phase; The latest health stories from around the world

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The World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, last Friday. The move is likely to usher the world into a new phase of disease monitoring with a scaling back of surveillance and available resources to fight COVID-19. https://www.science.org/content/article/who-ends-pandemic-emergency-covid-19-deaths-fall? WHO’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a press …

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WHO expands mRNA facilities to South Africa; The latest health stories from around the world

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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday launched its mRNA vaccine technology hub in South Africa’s Cape Town, to help poorer countries struggling to gain access to life-saving medication. www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-officially-launches-mrna-vaccine-hub-cape-town-2023-04-20/ In 2021, the WHO picked South African biotech firm Afrigen Biologics and local vaccine-maker Biovac for a proof-of-concept pilot project to give poor and middle-income …

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Sexually transmitted dengue fever: A world first?

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Dengue fever is already endemic throughout India’s states and union territories. Recent announcements, however, may show the disease to be even more of a threat than previously anticipated. Spanish health authorities have announced the detection of a case in which a 41-year-old man from Madrid has contracted dengue after having sex with his male partner …

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Action on dengue urged in Uttar Pradesh

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The Uttar Pradesh government has urged officials to take action to curb dengue fever in the state. Dengue fever is considered the fastest-growing mosquito-borne disease in the world by the World Health Organization. Across India, more than 67,000 cases of the vector-borne disease — transmitted by the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus species of mosquito …

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