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Virus update: Latin America cases top 1m as UK, Russia ease lockdowns
AFP, Published on 01/06/2020
» BRASíLIA: Confirmed coronavirus cases in Latin America have surged past one million, while hard-hit Britain and Russia eased lockdowns Monday, despite not having their outbreaks fully under control.
UK govt advisors sound warning on easing virus lockdown
AFP, Published on 31/05/2020
» LONDON - Senior advisors to Boris Johnson's government on Saturday warned it was too early to lift the lockdown, just two days before the UK further relaxes coronavirus restrictions.
Vaccines in development hit 70, deaths top 114,000: Virus update
Bloomberg News, Published on 13/04/2020
» Seventy coronavirus vaccines are in development globally, with three already being tested in human trials, the World Health Organization said. The northeastern Chinese city of Harbin tightened rules to curb the spread of the virus.
WHO declares China virus outbreak international emergency
Published on 31/01/2020
» GENEVA: The World Health Organization declared on Thursday that the coronavirus epidemic in China now constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.
China virus: What we know about the fatalities
AFP, Published on 24/01/2020
» BEIJING: The first fatality of China's new virus would come to represent a common set of traits for those who died to the disease: he was over the age of 60 and in poor health.
China says virus spreading between humans as WHO set to meet
AFP, Published on 21/01/2020
» BEIJING - China has confirmed human-to-human transmission in the outbreak of a new SARS-like virus as the number of cases soared and the World Health Organization said it would consider declaring an international public health emergency.
Ethiopia's Tedros wins top job at WHO
Reuters, Published on 24/05/2017
» GENEVA - Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus won the race to be the next head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday, becoming the first African to lead the Geneva-based United Nations agency.
Zika can trigger severe neurological disorder: study
AFP, Published on 01/03/2016
» PARIS - Scientists on Tuesday said they had confirmed that the Zika virus sweeping Latin America and blamed for severe birth defects can also trigger a dangerous neurological disorder.
Britain allows 'three-parent babies'
AFP, Published on 04/02/2015
» Britain on Tuesday became the first country in the world to allow the creation of babies with DNA from three people after MPs voted for the controversial procedure.
Seeing medicine as a social science
News, Published on 03/02/2015
» When I was a medical student in the mid-1980s, I contracted malaria in Papua New Guinea. It was a miserable experience. My head ached. My temperature soared. I became anaemic. But I took my medicine, and I got better. The experience wasn't pleasant, but thanks to cheap, effective malaria drugs I was never in very much danger.