Infectious diseases
- Asia Pacific, Coronavirus, Infectious diseases, Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
New Zealand Covid response among world’s best but ‘scars’ remain, inquiry finds
Royal commission says response led by Jacinda Ardern was broadly ‘appropriate’, in a wide-ranging report featu…
- Afghanistan, Africa, Aid, Children's health, Global development, Global health, Health, Infectious diseases, Malawi, Medical research, Pakistan, Polio, Robert F Kennedy Jr, Science, Social media, Society, South and Central Asia, US healthcare, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
Influencers, misinformation and aid cuts: the fight to halt polio in Malawi
A huge vaccination drive has been launched after the country’s first outbreak in years of the paralysing disea…
- Asia Pacific, Bangladesh, India, Infectious diseases, Nepal, South and Central Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World news
What is Nipah virus? Key things to know about the disease amid cases in India
Highly contagious virus, which spreads from animals to humans, has a high fatality rate and there is no vaccin…
- Biology, Cannes film festival, Coronavirus, Culture, Drama films, Festivals, Film, India, Infectious diseases, Martin Scorsese, Medical research, Microbiology, Science, South and Central Asia, World news
Homebound review – emotionally rich study of friends in rural India trying to get home in the pandemic
Neeraj Ghaywan’s film benefits from excellent lead performances, strong cinematography and an apparent mentors…
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Alarm in China that efforts to control Chikungunya virus are infringing on rights
Many say control measure for mosquito-borne disease hark back to the zero-Covid era, in which people’s daily l…
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Measles cases hit six-year high in South Korea amid outbreaks across south-east Asia
South Korea passes annual tally for 2024 already, as Vietnam and Thailand continue to battle outbreaksSouth Ko…
- Afghanistan, Global development, Global health, Health, Infant and child mortality, Infectious diseases, Malaria, Malnutrition, Polio, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Trump administration, US foreign policy, USAid, Women, World Health Organization, World news
Millions of Afghans lose access to healthcare services as USAID cuts shut clinics
Fears of surge in malnutrition, measles, malaria and polio as 206 World Health Organization facilities forced …
- Biology, Delhi, Global development, Global health, Health, India, Infectious diseases, Medical research, Microbiology, Science, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Our new doctors have no clue about leprosy’: experts sceptical of India’s target to eliminate the disease by 2027
After huge gains by 2005, efforts to wipe the disease out in India, which has most of the world’s cases, stall…
- Antibiotics, Drug resistance, Drugs, Global development, Global health, Infectious diseases, Pakistan, Science, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Drug-resistant typhoid is the final warning sign’: disease spreads in Pakistan as antibiotics fail
As world leaders discuss the battle against superbugs in New York, Pakistan’s children are suffering on the fr…
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Thailand confirms Asia’s first known case of new deadlier mpox variant
The department of disease control said tests on a traveller had confirmed he was infected with the Clade 1b st…
- Asia Pacific, China, Coronavirus, Infectious diseases, Journalist safety, Science, World news, Xi Jinping
Chinese woman jailed for reporting on Covid in Wuhan to be freed after four years
Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan’s search for the truth during the early days of the pandemic was seen as a threa…
- Asia Pacific, Biology, Censorship, China, Coronavirus, Infectious diseases, Medical research, Microbiology, Science, World news
First scientist to publish Covid sequence in China protests over lab ‘eviction’
Zhang Yongzhen stages sit-in protest, as government attempts to avoid scrutiny over handling of outbreakThe fi…
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Kuru: unravelling the mystery disease that left entire Papua New Guinean villages without women
New genetic analysis sheds light on the epidemic caused by the practice of mortuary feasting in the Eastern Hi…
- Afghanistan, Health, Infectious diseases, Medicine, Pakistan, Polio, Society, South and Central Asia, Vaccines and immunisation, World Health Organization, World news
Global eradication of polio ‘tantalisingly close’ with UK urged to keep up funding
After no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakis…
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Mystery in Japan as dangerous streptococcal infections soar to record levels
Health officials racing to identify cause of rise in streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, which has a 30% fatal…