What is Mpox? Symptoms, transmission and available vaccines
The pathogen enters the body through broken skin, the respiratory tract or the mucous membranes in the eyes, nose, mouth, rectum and anus. The main...
Tag : Global Health Security
New monkeypox strain reaches Europe as Sweden reports first case
Sweden has registered Europe’s first case of the more dangerous variant of mpox which is spreading rapidly in Africa, after the WHO declared a global...
Drones bomb jungle with mosquitoes in fight against dengue fever
At the heart of the programme is an innovation by the WMP, which has pioneered the use of Wolbachia, a bacteria that, when present, blocks...
WHO declares ‘public health emergency’ over new clade of M-Pox
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared an international public health emergency to combat a new fast spreading outbreak of mpox sweeping East and Central...
WHO updates pandemic watchlist to include black death and bird flu
But while pre-pandemic lists focused on a narrow set of around a dozen priority diseases, the latest blueprint includes well over 30. It also creates...
The dark side of the global surrogacy trade
The wording of commercial surrogacy contracts is telling, the text reflecting the economic disparity between carrier and client. “If Gestational Carrier suffers a loss of...
Young children among 150 Rohingya killed in drone attack in Myanmar
“I heard the deafening sound of shelling multiple times,” said Mohammed Eleyas, 35, who is now living in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. His wife...
Travellers urged to stay ‘vigilant’ after Oropouche virus brought back to Europe
Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health of Cuba first reported Oropouche cases on May 27. Since then a total of 74 cases have been confirmed –...
Indonesia’s net zero nickel boom fuels destruction of rainforests and coral reefs
Labota was once a fishing village, but today it has been subsumed into a sprawling city centred around IMIP, with 50 factories sprawling across nearly...