WHO asks China for more details on unexplained pneumonia outbreak | Health News
Reports that children’s hospitals in Beijing, Liaoning and other cities are ‘overwhelmed with sick children’. The World Health Organization (WHO)
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Which of Gaza’s hospitals is Israel threatening? | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Israel’s warplanes and tanks are circling around the Gaza Strip’s hospitals as health facilities increasingly come under attack. The assaults
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Thick smog shuts down Pakistan’s Lahore, sickens tens of thousands | Climate News
Authorities shutter schools, markets and parks for four days due to the toxic air after tens of thousands fall ill.
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Palestinians fear Israel will strike Gaza’s al-Quds Hospital | Gaza
NewsFeed Dust and smoke filled the corridors of the overcrowded al-Quds Hospital in Gaza when Israel bombed the surrounding area
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Bangladesh dengue deaths cross 1,000 in worst outbreak on record | Health News
At least 1,017 die and nearly 209,000 are infected, making 2023 the deadliest year since the first recorded epidemic in
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Did a report really say masks don’t help prevent the spread of COVID-19? | Coronavirus pandemic News
The recent discovery of new coronavirus strains has triggered fears of a new wave of restrictions, more than three years
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Aspartame sweetener ‘possible carcinogen’ but safe in moderation | Health News
World Health Organisation says sweetener found in diet drinks and other food items is a possible cause of cancer but
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WHO declares end to mpox public health emergency | World Health Organization News
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the decision was prompted by falling case numbers worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO)
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WHO officially launches mRNA vaccine tech hub in Cape Town | Health News
Global pharmaceutical firms, including Moderna and Pfizer, had declined to provide the technical know-how to replicate their vaccines in Africa.
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Ghana becomes first country to approve Oxford’s malaria vaccine | Health News
For years, scientists have been trying to develop vaccines for the disease which kills more than 600,000 people annually –
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