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(Eagle News) – The Philippines has recorded its first case of the monkeypox virus – a 31-year old Filipino who arrived from abroad on July 19, the Department of Health said on Friday, July 29. The patient also had prior travel to countries with confirmed monkeypox cases, according to Health Undersecretary Beverly Ho. The DOH official, however, did not reveal the gender of the Filipino who is now confirmed to be the first monkeypox case […]
by Patrick Markey Agence France-Presse KATSINA, Nigeria (AFP) — Lariya Abdulkareem’s family used to make a living farming beans and sorghum at a village in Nigeria’s northwest Katsina state. But threats of bandit attacks forced them to abandon their land and farm elsewhere. Today, worsening insecurity has disrupted agriculture and food supplies in the region, and the grandmother says feeding her family has become a challenge. “We cannot access the places we did before,” Abdulkareem […]
Washington, United States | AFP British researchers reported a breakthrough Monday in mysterious hepatitis cases affecting young children, finding the serious liver condition was linked to co-infection of two common viruses, but not the coronavirus. The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported at least 1,010 probable cases, including 46 that required transplants and 22 deaths from the illness dating back to last October. Previous theories had centered on a spike in commonly found adenovirus infections […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s former emperor Akihito has been diagnosed with heart failure but is in stable condition after being prescribed medication, the Imperial Household Agency said Tuesday. The diagnosis was made during an unrelated health checkup last month on the 88-year-old, who in 2019 became the first member of the world’s oldest royal family to abdicate the throne in more than 200 years. The examination confirmed heart expansion and pleural fluid, an agency […]
Tokyo, Japan | AFP Japan on Monday confirmed its first case of monkeypox, detected in a man in his 30s who had travelled overseas, Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike announced. “It’s a man in his 30s with a history of overseas travel who had returned from Europe. This is the first monkeypox case in Japan,” Koike told reporters. She said the man had been hospitalised in Tokyo, without giving further details. The case was reported […]
Geneva, Switzerland | AFP by Christophe VOGT The World Health Organization on Saturday declared the monkeypox outbreak, which has affected nearly 17,000 people in 74 countries, to be a global health emergency — the highest alarm it can sound. “I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference. He said a committee of experts who met on Thursday […]
Copenhagen, Denmark | AFP The World Health Organization’s European office on Friday said the heatwave baking Europe has caused over 1,700 deaths on the Iberian peninsula alone, calling for joint action to tackle climate change. “Heat kills. Over the past decades, hundreds of thousands of people have died as a result of extreme heat during extended heatwaves, often with simultaneous wildfires,” WHO regional director for Europe Hans Kluge said in a statement. “This year, we […]
Washington, United States | AFP Ninety-five percent of monkeypox cases have been transmitted through sexual activity, according to the largest study to date, which also noted new clinical signs such as single genital lesions. The research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday, came as World Health Organization experts debated whether to classify the outbreak as a global health emergency, the highest alarm it can sound. Led by scientists at Queen Mary […]
Beijing, China | AFP Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a sympathy message to his United States counterpart Joe Biden on Friday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, a day after the 79-year-old US leader tested positive for Covid-19. Biden on Thursday insisted he was “doing great”, and said he would continue to work while isolating at the White House with mild symptoms. “I would like to express my deep sympathies to you and wish you a speedy […]
Paris, France | AFP by Julien DURY Research shows that the risk of developing heart conditions after a messenger RNA Covid vaccine is very low, and should not call into question the value of life-saving vaccination campaigns rolled out across the world. But the risk is “non-negligible”, and the available evidence is difficult to assess precisely, researchers have said, calling for better data on the subject. “That we are now more than a year […]
New York, United States | AFP The United States on Thursday reported its first case of polio in almost a decade. New York state’s health department said a person living in Rockland County, 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Manhattan, had tested positive for the disease. America last recorded a polio case in 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The latest case was a type “indicative of a transmission chain from […]
by Robin Millard Agence France-Press GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Countries meeting to negotiate a new international accord on how to handle future pandemics agreed Thursday that it should be legally binding, the World Health Organization said. The economic turmoil and millions of lives lost during the coronavirus crisis triggered calls for new international defenses strong enough to prevent such a disaster in future. The 194 WHO member states decided in December to launch the negotiating […]
