Al-Ahram Weekly
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Economy
6/7/2025 12:53:32 PM
Rumours of a virus leading to the death of chickens in Egypt has ruffled some feathers in the poultry market, but the real culprit is heat stress
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Life & Style
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Health
5/17/2025 12:32:27 PM
Dengue and chikungunya diseases may soon become endemic in Europe as the tiger mosquitoes that carry these viruses spread further north due to global warming according to a new research.
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World
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Africa
4/26/2025 5:14:40 PM
Uganda declared the end of an Ebola virus outbreak Saturday, which has killed at least two people in the East African nation since late January.
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World
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International
4/19/2025 2:00:07 PM
The White House on Friday unveiled a revamped Covid-19 website that promoted the contentious theory that the virus leaked from a Chinese laboratory, framing it as the pandemic's "true origins."
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World
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Africa
1/22/2025 6:23:27 PM
The African Union expressed dismay Wednesday over President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, urging his administration to reconsider.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
1/9/2025 9:53:00 AM
No cases of the HMPV virus have been reported in Egypt and Covid-19 variants pose no significant threat.
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Life & Style
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Health
1/5/2025 12:11:18 PM
Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world.
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Egypt
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Health
12/25/2024 3:21:51 PM
Although Egypt is currently experiencing a spread of respiratory viruses, the new COVID-19 variant circulating globally has not yet reached the country, according to Hossam Hosni, head of the Scientific Committee to Combat Coronavirus at the Ministry of Health and Population.
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Egypt
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Health
12/18/2024 1:50:50 PM
Seasonal influenza is the most widespread respiratory virus currently in Egypt, according to Ministry of Health Spokesman Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar, who assured that the situation will remain within expected levels for this time of year.
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Life & Style
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Health
12/2/2024 6:29:46 PM
It’s been called the closest the world has ever come to a vaccine against the AIDS virus.
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Sports
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Omni sports
10/29/2024 3:48:16 PM
World number one Jannik Sinner has withdrawn from the Paris Masters indoor event due to an "intestinal virus", the tournament organisers announced on Tuesday.
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World
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International
8/25/2024 5:58:42 PM
Pope Francis on Sunday highlighted victims of the mpox virus in his weekly prayers and called on governments and the pharmaceutical industry to do more to get vaccines to the worst hit countries.
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Life & Style
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Health
8/23/2024 6:54:34 PM
US regulators approved updated COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday, shots designed to more closely target recent virus strains, and hopefully whatever variants cause trouble this winter, too.
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Egypt
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Health
8/22/2024 6:40:30 PM
Minister of Health and Population Dr. Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar affirmed Thursday that Egypt has successfully maintained a zero-case status for the monkeypox (Mpox) virus.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
8/21/2024 8:49:00 AM
Steps are being taken to guard against the virus.
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World
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International
8/20/2024 6:39:56 PM
The mpox outbreak is not another Covid-19, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, because much is already known about the virus and the means to control it.
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Egypt
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Health
8/19/2024 11:48:31 AM
Egypt stepped up health precautionary measures at air, sea, and land ports on Thursday 15 August, as the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) a day earlier due to the upsurge of the virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a growing number of African countries.
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World
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International
8/17/2024 5:41:25 PM
The World Health Organization on Friday urged manufacturers to ramp up production of mpox vaccines to rein in the spread of a more dangerous strain of the virus.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/17/2024 2:06:11 PM
The threat of polio is rising fast in the Gaza Strip, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war so they can ramp up vaccinations and head off a full-blown outbreak. At least one case has been confirmed, others are suspected and the virus was detected in wastewater in six different locations in July.
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World
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International
8/16/2024 2:04:52 PM
The Democratic Republic of Congo said Thursday an mpox outbreak has killed 548 people there this year, as the first case outside Africa of the virus's more dangerous variant was recorded in a traveller in Sweden.
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