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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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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.
-
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.
