Infectious diseases
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Child respiratory sickness overloads China’s paediatric clinics – reports
Authorities appeal for calm, saying spike is due to end of Covid-19 lockdown restrictionsA surge in respirator…
- Asia Pacific, China, Coronavirus, Health, Infectious diseases, Sars, World Health Organization, World news
Respiratory infection clusters in China not caused by novel virus, says health ministry
Data has been supplied to World Health Organization and China says flu and other known pathogens are culpritsA…
- Asia Pacific, Children, Children's health, China, Coronavirus, Flu, Infectious diseases, Science, World Health Organization, World news
China supplies data to WHO about clusters of respiratory illness
Epidemiologists say wave in north, particularly among children, may be partly caused by ‘immunity debt’Chinese…
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China fuels global surge in mpox cases as LGBTQ+ stigma hampers response
WHO says China facing ‘sustained community transmission’ of virus first detected as imported case last yearChi…
- Global development, Health, India, Infectious diseases, Society, South and Central Asia, Tuberculosis, World news
Better nutrition can cut risk of TB deaths by 60%, Indian study finds
Large-scale field trials that provided healthy food packages to sufferers and their families showed radical re…
- Global development, Global health, Infectious diseases, Pakistan, Polio, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
Parents in Pakistan could be jailed for polio vaccine refusal
New law in Sindh introduces ‘extraordinary measures’ to ensure vaccination of children against range of infect…
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Covid lab leak theory should not be ruled out, top Chinese scientist says
Virologist George Gao also states for first time that China has investigated claim virus came from a laborator…
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China’s Covid whistleblower in Wuhan reportedly freed after three years
Fang Bin was targeted by authorities for reporting on the outbreak of Covid-19 in WuhanA Chinese citizen journ…
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India increases Covid booster jab production after surge in cases
Mock hospital drills held as new Omicron variant suspected of causing highest number of infections since 2022I…
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‘It’s spreading faster than we’ve ever seen’: the mission to halt leprosy in Bangladesh’s tea gardens
Despite the WHO declaring it eliminated in 1998, thousands of tea pickers have caught the diseaseAloka Gonju d…
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Japan says 1.5m people are living as recluses after Covid
Fifth of hikikomori cases among working-age people attributed to pressures unleashed by pandemicAlmost 1.5 mil…
- Asia Pacific, China, Coronavirus, Infectious diseases, Medical research, Microbiology, Science, World news
‘Being truthful is essential’: scientist who stumbled upon Wuhan Covid data speaks out
Florence Débarre’s discovery of genetic data online showed for first time that animals susceptible to coronavi…
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Bheed review – lockdown thriller cuts across India’s class conflict
A tense, state-of-the-nation drama set in Covid-era India successfully exposes how the caste system underpins …
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Newly released Chinese Covid data points to infected animals in Wuhan
Previously unseen genomic samples suggest animals at Huanan market were potential sourceNewly released data fr…
- Asia Pacific, Biology, China, Coronavirus, Genetics, Health, Infectious diseases, Research, Science, Wildlife, World Health Organization, World news
New data links Covid-19’s origins to raccoon dogs at Wuhan market
Analysis of gene sequences by international team finds Covid-positive samples rich in raccoon dog DNANewly rel…