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India political activist arrested for selling cow urine to combat virus
AFP, Published on 19/03/2020
» KOLKATA - An activist with India's ruling party has been arrested after a volunteer fell ill from drinking cow urine at a party to combat the novel coronavirus, police said Wednesday, as interest grows in home remedies amid the pandemic.
Sub-Saharan Africa records first coronavirus death
AFP, Published on 18/03/2020
» OUAGADOUGOU - Sub-Saharan Africa's weeks-long reprieve from the fatal impact of the coronavirus came to an end on Wednesday as Burkina Faso announced the death of a 62-year-old woman who had been suffering from diabetes.
'Don't panic' says US woman who recovered from coronavirus
AFP, Published on 13/03/2020
» SEATTLE - An American woman who has recovered from the novel coronavirus has a simple message for people who are worried: Don't panic -- but do think about high-risk individuals and stay home if you feel ill.
Tom Hanks in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus
AFP, Published on 12/03/2020
» GOLD COAST (AUSTRALIA) - Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson have tested positive for coronavirus while in Australia for a film project, the Oscar-winning US actor said Thursday.
Air pollution 'pandemic' shortens lives by 3 years - study
AFP, Published on 03/03/2020
» PARIS: A "pandemic" of air pollution is shortening lives worldwide by nearly three years on average, and causing 8.8 million premature deaths annually, scientists said on Tuesday.
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.
Sepsis linked to 1-in-5 deaths worldwide: study
AFP, Published on 17/01/2020
» PARIS - Sepsis played a direct role in the deaths of 11 million people in 2017, almost twice as many as previously estimated, according to a study published Thursday.
Double burden of obesity, undernourishment stalks world: report
AFP, Published on 16/12/2019
» PARIS: Low- and middle-income countries risk seeing their development progress slashed by the double-edged sword of obesity and undernutrition, both caused by a lack of access to affordable healthy food, a report in The Lancet warned Monday.
Drop that donut! Mexico pays portly cops to slim down
AFP, Published on 13/12/2019
» MEXICO CITY - It's a sunny morning in Mexico City, and police officers drip with sweat as they do push-ups and squats, part of a program for overweight cops in one of the world's most obese countries.
1-in-3 young children undernourished or overweight: UNICEF
AFP, Published on 15/10/2019
» PARIS - A third of the world's nearly 700 million children under five years old are undernourished or overweight and face lifelong health problems as a consequence, according to a grim UN assessment of childhood nutrition released Tuesday.