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About 17,000 people may have died in six countries after using antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a study.
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Antimalarial drug may have killed 17,000 people in first Covid-19 wave

HQ Team January 8, 2024: About 17,000 people may have died in six countries after using antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine during the first wave.

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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.
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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 COP28 has unveiled a $1.7 billion funding plan to meet climate and diversity goals.
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COP28: $1.7 billion plan to protect climate, diversity goals unveiled

HQ Team December 4, 2023: The COP28 has unveiled a $1.7 billion funding plan to meet climate and diversity goals. The key objectives.

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The WHO has reclassified the Covid-19 virus Omicron BA.2.86 mutation as a “variant of interest” after the global health agency reported an 8.9% rise in global prevalence in cases arising in the UK, France and Sweden.
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Omicron mutant BA.2.86 reclassified as ‘variant of interest’ by WHO 

HQ Team November 29, 2023: The WHO has reclassified the Covid-19 virus Omicron BA.2.86 mutation as a “variant of interest” after the global.

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— at a time when President Emmanuel Macron is taking steps to stem the country’s industrial decline.
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Novo Nordisk invests $2.3b in France for diabetes, obesity drugs

HQ Team November 23, 2023: Novo Nordisk will invest $2.3 billion to expand production of its weight-loss and diabetes drug in Chartes, France..

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One person died and 14 others were suspected to have botulism in France, with chances of additional cases happening within the country or outside as the disease coincided with the Rugby World Cup.
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Botulism kills one in France during Rugby World Cup period

HQ Team September 21, 2023: One person died and 14 others were suspected to have botulism in France, with chances of additional cases.

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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 WHO has updated the EG.5 variability of the COVID-19 virus to a ‘variant of interest’ — with genetic changes that are predicted or known to affect virus characteristics, such as transmissibility, virulence, antibody evasion, susceptibility to therapeutics and detectability.
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WHO labels Covid-19 variant EG.5 as ‘variant of interest’; cases rise

HQ Team August 10, 2023: The WHO has updated the EG.5 variability of the COVID-19 virus to a ‘variant of interest’ — with.

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Italy’s lower house unanimously green-lighted a ‘right to be forgotten’ bill to protect cancer survivors from insurance agencies and banks, which ask for their prior condition.
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Italian lower house clears right to be forgotten bill for cancer patients 

HQ Team August 7, 2023: Italy’s lower house unanimously green-lighted a ‘right to be forgotten’ bill to protect cancer survivors from insurance agencies.

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About 316 new cases of pox and two deaths have been reported to the WHO since June 24, with a significant rise of the disease in the South-East Asian region, mainly Thailand.
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Mpox cases on the rise globally, Thailand is the new hotspot

 HQ Team July 15, 2023: About 316 new cases of mpox and two deaths have been reported to the WHO since June 24,.

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