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China locks down Chengdu following latest COVID-19 outbreak

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China has locked down Chengdu, one of its biggest and most economically important cities, as it turns once again to its COVID strategy of restricting people’s movements to stop outbreaks. www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/world/asia/china-covid-lockdown-chengdu.html Starting at 6 p.m. last Thursday, residents in the city of more than 21 million were no longer allowed to leave their homes without …

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Updated COVID-19 boosters get FDA emergency use authorisation; The latest health stories from around the world

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an emergency use authorization for Moderna’s and Pfizer-BioNTech’s updated booster vaccines, which target the BA.4/BA.5 coronavirus subvariants. www.science.org/content/article/omicron-booster-shots-are-coming-lots-questions? For the first time since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 vaccines look set to receive an update. Boosters reformulated to protect against the Omicron variant, which has …

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The UK becomes the first country to approve a dual-strain COVID-19 booster; The latest health stories from around the world

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Last week the United Kingdom became the first country to approve an updated COVID-19 booster directed at two different strains of the coronavirus. The “bivalent” booster, made by Moderna, will have the same dose of messenger RNA as the company’s prior boosters but will target both the original version of the coronavirus and the first …

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World Mosquito Day 2022: Climate change could threaten to expand malaria transmissions in Africa

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Africa faces new challenges in its fight against malaria: the climate is becoming more mosquito friendly just as the insects are evolving to evade the insecticides and the malaria parasites are becoming resistant to medicines that have brought down deaths. In 2020, the World Health Organization estimated approximately 90% of malaria cases and 92% of deaths occurred in Africa. Over 600,000 African children died of malaria in that year alone.

Smallpox vaccine used to combat monkeypox; The latest health stories from around the world

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When monkeypox suddenly started spreading globally in May, the world was fortunate in one respect: A vaccine was available. MVA, originally developed by Bavarian Nordic as a smallpox vaccine, was already licensed for monkeypox in Canada and the United States (US). European Union (EU) regulators have since followed suit. Vaccine supplies are limited, and no …

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US declares monkeypox a public health emergency; The latest health stories from around the world

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The Biden administration in the United States (US) has declared monkeypox a public health emergency.  There have been more than 7,000 cases detected in the US, but that is likely an undercount. The majority of cases are concentrated in the gay and queer community, primarily among men who have sex with men. But the Centers …

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President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19 a second time; The latest health stories from around the world

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United States (US) President Joe Biden tested positive for the coronavirus again on Saturday morning, becoming the latest example of a rebound case after taking the Paxlovid treatment that has otherwise been credited with broadly impressive results in fighting the virus and suppressing its worst effects. “The President has experienced no re-emergence of symptoms, and …

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Monkeypox officially declared a global emergency by WHO; The latest health stories from around the world

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global emergency for the second time in two years. This time the cause is monkeypox, which has spread in just a few weeks to 74 countries. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/23/health/monkeypox-pandemic-who.htmlDr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director general, on Saturday overruled a panel of advisers, who could not come to a …

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Omicron sub-variant now sweeping India; The latest health stories from around the world

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An Omicron sub-variant that is spreading rapidly in India and has been detected in several European countries may be more effective than other coronavirus strains at overcoming immunity provided by prior infection and vaccines. BA.2.75, which has been nicknamed Centaurus, appeared to have mutated in a way that could indicate “major immune escape”, said the …

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New COVID-19 strain poses serious reinfection risk; The latest health stories from around the world

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Health experts across the globe are signalling alarm as they begin reporting that Omicron BA.5, the coronavirus strain that is currently outpacing other variants in infection and has become the dominant strain in the United States (US) and abroad, has the ability to reinfect people within weeks of contracting the virus. Andrew Robertson, the chief …

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