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The mpox outbreak ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is now a global health emergency, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). "The detection and rapid spread of a new Clade of mpox in eastern DRC, its detection in neighbouring countries that had not previously reported mpox, and the potential for further spread within Africa and beyond is very worrying," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday after announcing that the mpox outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), the United Nations’ health agency’s highest alarm. The WH...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is preparing a mass polio immunisation campaign for 500,000 children in Gaza, after the virus that causes the highly contagious disease was detected in wastewater samples around displacement camps last month. The shots come from global stockpiles, and while WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has already signed off on their use, they’re sitting in storage in Indonesia because the WHO is facing major barriers to launch the effort, officials said during a press briefing on Wednesday. That includes transportation issues, uncertainty around cold-c...
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COVID-19 may have felt like a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, but the pathogen behind the world’s next global health crisis is likely already on scientists’ radar. The World Health Organization (WHO) monitors “priority pathogens” that could cause major disease outbreaks in people, can lead to serious illness, and have limited medical interventions to prevent widespread harm. If a pathogen emerges that hits the right combination, it could cause an international health emergency or a global pandemic. The WHO says researchers should prioritise these pathogens when developing vaccines, treatments, an...
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Fewer children are getting vaccinated today than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data that shows the world is not on track to meet global vaccination goals by 2030. The pandemic disrupted immunisation campaigns around the world, and while vaccination rates rebounded in some countries in 2022, progress stalled in 2023. Lower-income and conflict-ridden countries in particular are being left behind, according to the new data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, which covers immunisation across 195 countries. WHO says 2.6 million alcohol-related deaths glob...
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After more than two years of working to prevent some of the problems seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have given themselves another year to hammer out the final details of a pandemic treaty. In the weeks leading up to a May deadline that was not met, diplomats working on the negotiations told Euronews Health they would sometimes argue over a paragraph of text for three to four hours with long nights and intense discussions to meet an overly ambitious timeline. While several negotiators said they were optimistic about the prospect of coming to an agreement, they also expressed conce...
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The president of the EU Council has described having "mixed feelings" following the failure last week of key United Nations-led talks on an international pandemic accord last week, which led to the initiative being delayed until May 2025. “On the one hand, I’m disappointed because I would’ve preferred a decision and I felt the momentum was now,” Charles Michel told a pooled media interview in Brussels Michel was among initiators of the pandemic treaty proposal during the Paris Peace Forum in November 2020. “There was a lack of political will and courage of some around the table, and this is ju...
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In a research letter, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that cases of leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, have surged in Central Florida. The area accounts for 81% of reported cases in the state and almost one-fifth of cases nationwide. Leprosy is an infectious disease that normally spreads through contact and primarily affects a patient’s skin and peripheral nervous system. Known symptoms of the disease include discolored skin patches, thick and dry skin, loss of eyebrows and eyelashes, muscle weakness and enlarged nerves. The research letter noted that “the numbe...
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The cases were found in two different individuals on March 23 and March 27.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Indonesia has confirmed a new Covid-19 sub-variant Omicron XBB.1.16 or Arcturus after two cases were recently detected in the country, said an official. “Yes, two cases have been found,” the head of the Communication and Public Services Bureau of the Health Ministry Siti Nadia Tarmizi told Kompas.com on Friday, April 14. Nadia said that the cases were found in two different individuals on March 23 and March 27. One of them is an international traveler. Nadia mentioned that the symptoms are not categorized as severe. She also acknowledged that this sub-variant is highly tr...
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Only three people have so far been known to have contracted the disease, all of them in China.
KOMPAS.com \- China has reported the first fatal case of H3N8 bird flu in humans after registering two other non-fatal infections with the disease last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said late on Tuesday, April 11. The death reported was that of a 56-year-old woman from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. The WHO said that a wider spread of the virus between humans was unlikely but stressed the importance "of global surveillance to detect virological, epidemiological and clinical changes associated with circulating influenza viruses which may affect human [or animal] health....
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China announced nearly 60,000 deaths since early December last year.
BEIJING, KOMPAS.com — The World Health Organization has appealed to China to keep releasing information about its wave of Covid-19 infections after the government announced nearly 60,000 deaths since early December last year following weeks of complaints it was failing to tell the world what was happening. The announcement Saturday, Jan. 14, was the first official death toll since the ruling Communist Party abruptly dropped anti-virus restrictions in December despite a surge in infections that flooded hospitals. That left the WHO and other governments appealing for information, while the Unite...
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