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EU and US launch joint task force on global health threats; The latest health stories from around the world

The European Union and the United States have launched a new joint health task force to cooperate on cancer, global health threats and related supply chains and infrastructure, officials told a press conference last Wednesday. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/992081?ecd=wnl_edit_tpal&uac=398271FG&impID=5445031&faf=1 The task force was set up on the heels of a cooperation agreement signed in June last year to …

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Monkeypox cases continue to increase; The latest health stories from around the world

The global tally of monkeypox cases has surpassed 200 and continues to increase daily, reaching across 21 countries, according to the latest report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. On Wednesday, the agency reported 219 confirmed cases worldwide, including 9 in the United States (US) and 71 in the United Kingdom(UK). Later …

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North Korea officially announces COVID-19 outbreak; The latest health stories from around the world

Even as most of the world rises to a slowly receding COVID wave, North Korea on Sunday reported 15 additional deaths from “fever” after the country recently announced its first-ever cases of COVID-19 and ordered nationwide lockdowns, television channel NDTV citing AFP reports said. www.ndtv.com/world-news/north-korea-coronavirus-north-korea-covid-north-korea-coronavirus-cases-north-koreas-explosive-covid-outbreak-820-620-cases-in-3-days-2977028 State media KCNA said a total of 42 people had …

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WHO estimates 15 million death toll due to COVID-19; The latest health stories from around the world

The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that nearly 15 million people—about one in every 500 globally—died from causes related to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and 2021 (the first two years of the pandemic), putting the toll from COVID-19 at nearly three times the number that had been officially recorded by countries. India suffered …

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Could climate change aid the spread of viruses? The latest health stories from around the world

Earth’s warming climate is expected to change the habitat of many animal species, which a new modelling study predicts may spell trouble: Species on the move will mingle with many others they have never encountered before, allowing the various animals to exchange viruses. That could spark new disease outbreaks in many wildlife populations—and in humans …

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A third of the world have not had a single COVID-19 vaccination; the latest health stories from around the world

Sixteen months since the COVID-19 vaccination drive began and a third of the world’s population hasn’t yet received a single dose of the vaccine. A shocking 83 percent of all Africans are in the same boat, said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on 30 March. Meanwhile last week the total number of …

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India stalls global COVID-19 death toll estimates; the latest health stories from around the world

India is stalling an ambitious effort by the World Health Organization to calculate the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic. Like some other such efforts (less authoritative perhaps) before it, the WHO study has found that vastly more people died than previously believed — a total of about 15 million by the end of …

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China announces city wide lockdown to curb COVID-19; the latest health stories from around the world

Sticking to its “zero COVID” policy, China has announced its biggest city-wide lockdown since the COVID outbreak began more than two years ago. The city of Shanghai will be locked down in two stages over nine days while authorities carry out COVID-19 testing. ( www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-60893070) The important financial hub has battled a new wave of …

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“variant of concern” emerges; the latest health stories from around the world

There is a new version of COVID-19 and the World Health Organisation has labelled it a “variant of concern.” First identified in South Africa on 25 November, preliminary evidence suggests that it carries a greater risk of reinfection than other strains. (www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/11/26/a-new-covid-19-variant-has-emerged) Just a day after its emergence, the world turned hyper. The EU imposed …

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Moderna disputes COVID vaccine credit; the latest health stories from around the world

  Confronted by the challenge of COVID-19, everybody and his uncle got together to fight back. In the field of vaccines and therapeutics this often meant a private-public partnership with governments in the Western world, particularly the US, doling out astronomical sums of money as advance payments for vaccines still under development. Not only did …

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