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New genetic analysis sheds light on the epidemic caused by the practice of mortuary feasting in the Eastern Highlands of PNG mid last centuryIn the middle of the 20th century the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea was gripped by a mysteriou…
Read MoreAfter no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakistan and AfghanistanThe world is “tantalisingly close” to eradicating polio – with no confirmed cases of wild polio anywhere so far this year. …
Read MoreHealth officials racing to identify cause of rise in streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, which has a 30% fatality rateExperts warn that a rare but dangerous bacterial infection is spreading at a record rate in Japan, with officials struggling to identi…
Read MoreAuthorities appeal for calm, saying spike is due to end of Covid-19 lockdown restrictionsA surge in respiratory illnesses in China, particularly among children, has reportedly swamped paediatric units in city hospitals, while authorities have urged cal…
Read MoreData has been supplied to World Health Organization and China says flu and other known pathogens are culpritsA surge in respiratory illnesses across China that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization is caused by the flu and other know…
Read MoreEpidemiologists say wave in north, particularly among children, may be partly caused by ‘immunity debt’Chinese health authorities have provided the requested data on an increase in respiratory illnesses and reported clusters of pneumonia in children, a…
Read MoreWHO says China facing ‘sustained community transmission’ of virus first detected as imported case last yearChina is fuelling a global surge in mpox cases, accounting for the majority of new cases reported in September, according to the World Health Or…
Read MoreLarge-scale field trials that provided healthy food packages to sufferers and their families showed radical reductions in fatalities Infectious, deadly and long associated with poverty, tuberculosis causes weight loss, while poor diets increase the lik…
Read MoreNew law in Sindh introduces ‘extraordinary measures’ to ensure vaccination of children against range of infectious diseasesParents in Pakistan who refuse to get their children vaccinated against infectious diseases could be jailed or fined under a new …
Read MoreVirologist George Gao also states for first time that China has investigated claim virus came from a laboratoryThe former director of China’s Center for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) has said the lab leak theory for the origins of Covid-19 shoul…
Read MoreFang Bin was targeted by authorities for reporting on the outbreak of Covid-19 in WuhanA Chinese citizen journalist who disappeared three years ago while reporting on the Wuhan coronavirus lockdown – and was later revealed to have been detained by auth…
Read MoreMock hospital drills held as new Omicron variant suspected of causing highest number of infections since 2022India has experienced its highest number of Covid infections in months, reportedly caused by a new variant, with almost 8,000 new cases reporte…
Read MoreDespite the WHO declaring it eliminated in 1998, thousands of tea pickers have caught the diseaseAloka Gonju didn’t take much notice of the discoloured patch of skin on her left hand until her fingers began to stiffen and hurt. It became a struggle to …
Read MoreFifth of hikikomori cases among working-age people attributed to pressures unleashed by pandemicAlmost 1.5 million people of working age in Japan are living as social recluses, according to a government survey, with about a fifth of cases attributed to…
Read MoreFlorence Débarre’s discovery of genetic data online showed for first time that animals susceptible to coronavirus were present at marketToday in Focus podcast: ‘It’s way beyond just science’: untangling the hunt for Covid’s originsOne of the most compe…
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