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Oropouche virus ‘massively underdiagnosed’ in Latin America, new study suggests
Antibodies to the virus linked to still births and defects found at high levels in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Peru
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WHO tests pandemic response with Arctic ‘mammothpox’ outbreak
Exclusive: Exercise Polaris, run from Geneva, tested 15 countries on their response to a deadly outbreak – with some laissez-faire results
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Scientists think they know what animal carries mpox. It’s not a monkey
A chance discovery led to the identification of a possible natural reservoir for the virus formerly known as monkeypox
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Fears new mpox strain spreading in UK after case with no travel history
The UK Health Security Agency has launched an investigation to determine how a person in North East England caught the virus
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Children caught in crossfire of rebel assault overwhelm Goma hospital
City’s only functioning paediatric surgery unit inundated with patients wounded by gunfire and shrapnel, DRC doctors say
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‘Measles is back’: cases in the EU have jumped by a factor of ten
Cases of the Victorian-era disease in Europe rise from 3,973 in 2023 to 32,265 in 2024
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All creatures great and culled: inside the global bird flu poultry slaughter
Culling has become the main method of controlling H5N1 and preventing spread to humans, but it costs farms – and taxpayers – dearly
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Don’t like the idea of chlorinated chicken? You ain’t seen nothing yet
Trump administration is considering the mass vaccination of US chickens as H5N1 bird flu causes egg prices to soar
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M23 rebels ‘execute’ children in assault on major DRC city
Rwanda-backed insurgent group seizes Bukavu, plunging country deeper into crisis
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African hospital staff laid off en masse amid Trump aid freeze
Thousands of doctors, nurses, lab technicians, and other health personnel at US-funded programmes have reported job losses
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Meet the ‘lepers’ of Somerset – battling stigma from the West Country
Dan and Babs Izzett kept their diagnosis secret for decades before dedicating themselves to helping fellow sufferers
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Cutting edge Oxford malaria vaccine trial in jeopardy as USAID payments frozen
Dozens of UK volunteers left in limbo by Trump cuts after taking the experimental drug in bid to help science
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Fathers, brothers and sons fight for women’s safety in Sierra Leone
The country declared a national emergency over its sexual and gender-based violence problem. Now, its men are becoming part of the solution
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More dangerous bird flu variant spreading among US cattle
The D1.1 strain of H5N1 avian flu is blamed for one man’s death and putting a teenager in intensive care
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Argentina to follow Trump and leave World Health Organization
Country’s President says decision is partly motivated by ‘deep differences’ over the agency’s handling of the pandemic
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Uganda confirms Ebola outbreak after death of nurse in capital
The case marks the first since the outbreak of Ebola in Uganda three years ago
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