Climate change worsens Bangladesh dengue outbreak, with record deaths
By Shafiqul ALAM DHAKA, Oct 5, 2023 (AFP) - In the crowded fever ward in Bangladesh's Mugda hospital, every bed…
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France to hold crisis meetings on bedbug ‘scourge’
By Sami ACEF with David COURBET in Marseille PARIS, Oct 3, 2023 (AFP) - The French government said Tuesday it…
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Nobel-winning mRNA pioneer Weissman now wants to defeat Covid forever
By Issam AHMED WASHINGTON, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) - From developing a one-and-done coronavirus shot to overcoming misinformation and global…
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Bangladesh dengue deaths top 1,000 in worst outbreak on record
DHAKA, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) - More than 1,000 people in Bangladesh have died of dengue fever since the start…
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Recent winners of the Nobel Medicine Prize
Here is a list of the winners of the Nobel Medicine Prize in the past 10 years: 2022: Swedish paleogeneticist…
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Narcolepsy, cancer tipped as Medicine Prize opens Nobel week
By Pia OHLIN STOCKHOLM, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) - Narcolepsy, cancer or mRNA vaccine research could win the Nobel Medicine…
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Anti-Covid drug may have led to virus mutations: study
By Daniel Lawler An anti-Covid drug widely used across the world may have caused mutations in the virus, researchers said…
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S.African chickens hit by ‘worst’ bird flu outbreak
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 22, 2023 (AFP) - South African poultry farmers have warned of possible chicken and egg shortages as they…
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Air pollution from fires hits world’s poorest hardest: study
People in poorer countries are disproportionately suffering from air pollution spewed from the increasing scourge of fires in forests and…
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Avian flu hits bird paradise of Galapagos Islands
The Galapagos National Park said Tuesday that it had detected its first cases of avian flu on the remote islands,…
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