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Measles cases rose 30-fold in Europe with more than 30,000 people being infected by the contagious viral disease between January-October 2023 period, according to the WHO.
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Measles spreading rapidly across Europe, WHO calls for urgent curbs

HQ Team February 4, 2024: Measles cases rose 30-fold in Europe with more than 30,000 people being infected by the contagious viral disease.

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The prevalence of JN.1, a Covid-19 sub-variant, has risen to 62% in the US on Jan. 5 compared to two weeks prior, according to the National Public Health Agency.
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JN.1 sub-variant Covid-19 cases rise to 62% in the US, says CDC 

HQ Team January 8, 2023: The prevalence of JN.1, a Covid-19 sub-variant, has risen to 62% in the US on Jan. 5 compared.

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African researchers and European scientists, conducting clinical trials for an HIV vaccine, have halted further vaccinations after they turned out to be ineffective in preventing people from getting the virus.
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African-European HIV vaccine clinical trials come to a grinding halt

HQ Team December 11, 2023: African researchers and European scientists, conducting clinical trials for an HIV vaccine, have halted further vaccinations after they turned.

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France has upgraded its level of bird flu risk to ‘high’ from ‘moderate’ to ensure better protection and ordered poultry farms to close or enclose the birds with nets in farmyards and zoos.
Climate Health Pharma

France on ‘high’ alert for bird flu, imposes poultry curbs on farms

HQ Team December 6, 2023: France has upgraded its level of bird flu risk to ‘high’ from ‘moderate’ to ensure better protection and.

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The heat waves sweeping across the globe are the “new normal” and do not come as a surprise, Alvaro Silva, a climate expert with the World Meteorological Organization said.
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Heatwaves across Europe, the US “new normal,” says WMO 

HQ Team August 21, 2023: The heat waves sweeping across the globe are the “new normal” and do not come as a surprise,.

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The month of July was the highest warm period, since pre-industrial times, a record 1.5C more than the average for 1815 to 1900, according to the UN.
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Greenhouse gases ring in warmest July since pre-industrial times

HQ Team August 9, 2023: The month of July was the highest warm period, since pre-industrial times, a record 1.5C more than the.

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Migratory flows have fanned the Chagas disease, and a study of 2,820 people from the countries where it is an endemic, revealed that 47% were infected by the parasite and 17% had heart lesions.
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Migration leading to high global prevalence of Chagas disease

HQ Team July 17, 2023: Migratory flows have fanned the Chagas disease, and a study of 2,820 people from the countries where it.

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A hunting community, as far as Northeastern Greenland has some of the world’s highest concentrations of harmful polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a Danish study found.
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Greenland’s hunting community reports high PFAS levels

HQ Team July 13, 2023: A hunting community, as far as Northeastern Greenland has some of the world’s highest concentrations of harmful polyfluoroalkyl.

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Extreme summer heat and a resurgence of mpox in Europe are adding to the hardship created by the Covid-19 virus, which is still killing 1,000 people in the continent every week, a senior WHO official said.
Climate Drugs Pharma

Covid-19, summer heat, mpox challenges haunt European region

HQ Team June 28, 2023: Extreme summer heat and a resurgence of mpox in Europe are adding to the hardship created by the.

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Japan’s Eisai Co and Biogen Inc., have submitted a marketing authorisation application with the South Korean health authority for leqembi, an investigational drug to treat early onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
Drugs Health Medical Pharma

Japan’s Eisai seeks marketing nod for Alzheimer’s drug in South Korea

HQ Team June 8, 2023: Japan’s Eisai Co and Biogen Inc., have submitted a marketing authorisation application with the South Korean health authority.

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