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Beyond Brain-Eating Amoeba: Scientists Warn Of Rising Threat To Global Health
Researchers warn that free-living amoebas, microscopic organisms thriving in soil and water, are spreading globally due to climate change and ageing water systems. These pose serious health risks.
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IIT Roorkee Finds Breakthrough To Beat World's Most Dangerous Superbugs
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee have developed a new drug candidate that could restore the power of a critical antibiotic against one of the world's most dangerous superbugs.
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How Covid Origin Theories Are Hampering Our Ability To Prevent Next Pandemic
In late June, the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a group of independent experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO), published an assessment of the origins of COVID.
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'Homework Zones' Established In China's Hospitals As Respiratory Infections Spread
Images of students doing their homework while on a drip have indeed gone viral on social media. The pictures have sparked a heated debate.
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Global Mpox Outbreak Risk Escalates As Potent Strain Spreads In Congo
The pathogen typically causes flu-like symptoms, followed by a rash that often starts on the face and spreads down the belly. The illness often lasts for two weeks to a month, and can be deadly.
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Deadly Ebola-Like Virus Kills 9 In Equatorial Guinea, WHO Dispatches Teams
The Marburg virus is a highly dangerous pathogen that causes severe fever often accompanied by bleeding, and often targeting several organs and reducing the body's ability to function on its own.
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WHO To Identify Pathogens That Could Cause Future Pandemics
The World Health Organization said on Monday it was thrashing out a new list of priority pathogens that risk sparking pandemics or outbreaks and need to be kept under close observation.
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WHO Tells Ukraine To Destroy Pathogens In Health Labs In Case They Are Bombed
The World Health Organization advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country's public health laboratories to prevent "any potential spills" that would spread disease among the population, the agency told Reuters on Thursday.
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"Our Last Chance To Find Covid Origins": WHO On Its New Advisory Group
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday its newly formed advisory group on dangerous pathogens may be "our last chance" to determine the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and and urged China to provide data from early cases.
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The Wuhan Lab At The Heart Of The "Extremely Unlikely" Leak Theory
A team commissioned by the World Health Organization to investigate the source of the coronavirus in Wuhan in January concluded that it was "extremely unlikely" that the pathogen originated in a top-security lab in the ground-zero Chinese city.
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A Couple Ate Raw Marmot Believed To Have Health Benefits; Here's What Happened
"Any time you eat something raw, there's always a chance for picking up all sorts of different pathogens," he said. "There are so many other zoonotic infections they could have picked up, unfortunately due to the locale, it just happened to be plague."
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Here's Why You Should Not Eat Food Wrapped In A Newspaper
Wrapping food items in newspaper is bad for your health as its ink has multiple bio-active materials with known negative health effects, FSSAI said on Friday.
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Zika Declared Global Public Health Emergency
The World Health Organization on Monday designated the Zika virus a public health emergency of international concern, an action it has taken only three times before, which paves the way for the mobilization of more funding and manpower to fight the mosquito-born pathogen spreading "explosively" through the Americas.
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Why The United States Is So Vulnerable To The Alarming Spread Of Zika Virus
With the Zika virus now circulating in two dozen countries and territories across the Americas, the mosquito-borne pathogen seems destined to reach the United States and likely sooner rather than later.
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Beyond Brain-Eating Amoeba: Scientists Warn Of Rising Threat To Global Health
Researchers warn that free-living amoebas, microscopic organisms thriving in soil and water, are spreading globally due to climate change and ageing water systems. These pose serious health risks.
-
IIT Roorkee Finds Breakthrough To Beat World's Most Dangerous Superbugs
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee have developed a new drug candidate that could restore the power of a critical antibiotic against one of the world's most dangerous superbugs.
-
How Covid Origin Theories Are Hampering Our Ability To Prevent Next Pandemic
In late June, the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a group of independent experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO), published an assessment of the origins of COVID.
-
'Homework Zones' Established In China's Hospitals As Respiratory Infections Spread
Images of students doing their homework while on a drip have indeed gone viral on social media. The pictures have sparked a heated debate.
-
Global Mpox Outbreak Risk Escalates As Potent Strain Spreads In Congo
The pathogen typically causes flu-like symptoms, followed by a rash that often starts on the face and spreads down the belly. The illness often lasts for two weeks to a month, and can be deadly.
-
Deadly Ebola-Like Virus Kills 9 In Equatorial Guinea, WHO Dispatches Teams
The Marburg virus is a highly dangerous pathogen that causes severe fever often accompanied by bleeding, and often targeting several organs and reducing the body's ability to function on its own.
-
WHO To Identify Pathogens That Could Cause Future Pandemics
The World Health Organization said on Monday it was thrashing out a new list of priority pathogens that risk sparking pandemics or outbreaks and need to be kept under close observation.
-
WHO Tells Ukraine To Destroy Pathogens In Health Labs In Case They Are Bombed
The World Health Organization advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country's public health laboratories to prevent "any potential spills" that would spread disease among the population, the agency told Reuters on Thursday.
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"Our Last Chance To Find Covid Origins": WHO On Its New Advisory Group
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday its newly formed advisory group on dangerous pathogens may be "our last chance" to determine the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and and urged China to provide data from early cases.
-
The Wuhan Lab At The Heart Of The "Extremely Unlikely" Leak Theory
A team commissioned by the World Health Organization to investigate the source of the coronavirus in Wuhan in January concluded that it was "extremely unlikely" that the pathogen originated in a top-security lab in the ground-zero Chinese city.
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A Couple Ate Raw Marmot Believed To Have Health Benefits; Here's What Happened
"Any time you eat something raw, there's always a chance for picking up all sorts of different pathogens," he said. "There are so many other zoonotic infections they could have picked up, unfortunately due to the locale, it just happened to be plague."
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Here's Why You Should Not Eat Food Wrapped In A Newspaper
Wrapping food items in newspaper is bad for your health as its ink has multiple bio-active materials with known negative health effects, FSSAI said on Friday.
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Zika Declared Global Public Health Emergency
The World Health Organization on Monday designated the Zika virus a public health emergency of international concern, an action it has taken only three times before, which paves the way for the mobilization of more funding and manpower to fight the mosquito-born pathogen spreading "explosively" through the Americas.
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Why The United States Is So Vulnerable To The Alarming Spread Of Zika Virus
With the Zika virus now circulating in two dozen countries and territories across the Americas, the mosquito-borne pathogen seems destined to reach the United States and likely sooner rather than later.
