World
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International
7/10/2022 1:08:02 PM
A foot-and-mouth disease outbreak has disrupted ritual slaughter of animals to mark Eid al-Adha as millions of Muslims across Indonesia were celebrating one of the biggest holidays in the Islamic calendar Sunday.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/3/2022 10:38:08 AM
British monkeypox patients are exhibiting symptoms that differ from previous outbreaks, the first study examining UK cases said , leading researchers to call for the definition of the disease to be updated.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/1/2022 5:11:18 PM
The World Health Organization's Europe chief warned Friday that monkeypox cases in the region have tripled in the last two weeks and urged countries to do more to ensure the previously rare disease does not become entrenched on the continent.
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Life & Style
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Health
6/26/2022 10:05:25 AM
Pfizer said it would extend until 2030 a drug donation programme aimed at eliminating trachoma, an eye disease responsible for blinding or visually impairing nearly two million people worldwide.
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Life & Style
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Health
6/23/2022 11:45:38 AM
Monkeypox may soon have a new name after scientists called for a change to dispel stereotypes of Africa being seen as a crucible of disease.
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Life & Style
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Food
6/23/2022 11:36:58 AM
The global food crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine will kill millions by leaving the hungriest more vulnerable to infectious diseases, potentially triggering the world's next health catastrophe, the head of a major aid organisation has warned.
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World
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International
6/22/2022 12:29:09 PM
South Korea reported its first imported cases of monkeypox Wednesday, becoming the latest of some 40 countries -- and the first in East Asia -- to have identified the disease.
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World
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International
6/16/2022 10:05:13 AM
North Korea on Thursday reported the eruption of another infectious disease in addition to its ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, saying leader Kim Jong Un has donated his private medicines to those stricken with the new disease.
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Egypt
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Politics
6/6/2022 6:00:18 PM
The Unit of Research and Studies at the Forum for Development and Human Rights Dialogue (FDHRD) has stressed that factors resulting from climate change are negatively affecting public health through a litany of causes including the spread of disease.
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World
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Region
6/5/2022 11:02:25 AM
An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the West Bank early this year has killed thousands of livestock, pushing Palestinian farmers already living under occupation to the brink of bankruptcy.
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Life & Style
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Health
6/2/2022 3:09:45 PM
The WHO said Wednesday that hundreds of monkeypox cases have surfaced beyond the African countries where the disease is typically found, warning the virus has likely been spreading under the radar.
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World
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Region
6/2/2022 12:43:43 PM
The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has announced four new cases of Monkeypox, in line with the UAE health authorities' policy on the early detection and monitoring of the disease, the UAE news agency WAM reported.
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World
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Africa
6/1/2022 1:59:19 PM
As health authorities in Europe and elsewhere roll out vaccines and drugs to stamp out the biggest monkeypox outbreak beyond Africa, some doctors acknowledge an ugly reality: The resources to slow the disease's spread have long been available, just not to the Africans who have dealt with it for decades.
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World
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Africa
5/31/2022 11:14:02 PM
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 11,643,461 as of Tuesday evening, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.
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World
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Africa
5/30/2022 10:42:01 PM
Nine people have died of monkeypox in Congo in 2022 while Nigeria has recorded its first death from the disease this year, the countries' health authorities said, even as at least 20 countries continue to grapple with sudden outbreaks not seen in years.
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World
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International
5/30/2022 8:43:47 PM
The World Health Organization's top monkeypox expert said she doesn't expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease, including how exactly it's spreading and whether the suspension of mass smallpox immunization decades ago may somehow be speeding its transmission.
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Life & Style
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Health
5/28/2022 2:46:05 PM
The World Health Organization says nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease, but described the epidemic as ``containable'' and proposed creating a stockpile to equitably share the limited vaccines and drugs available worldwide.
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Egypt
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Society
5/26/2022 3:15:10 PM
Egypt will not allow people suffering from chronic diseases to perform the hajj this year, as the country fears for their health and lives, said Minister of Social Solidarity Nevine El-Qabbaj on Wednesday.
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World
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International
5/23/2022 5:12:08 PM
The EU health agency ECDC said Monday the risk that the rare disease monkeypox would spread among the general population was "very low," but high for certain groups.
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World
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International
5/22/2022 12:42:52 PM
Britain is seeing daily infections of the rare monkeypox virus that are unconnected to any travel to West Africa, where the disease is endemic, a health official said on Sunday.
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