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French government warns farmers against Christmas blockades over cattle cull

Europe

French PM urged to intervene as farmers keep up road blocks over cow 'mass slaughter'

France

French farmers’ union calls for ‘blockades’ as cows slaughtered over skin disease

France
Press Review

World first: Three-year-old boy with rare condition defies odds after gene therapy

Europe

Tunisians rally for closure of chemical factory blamed for spike in poisonings

Africa
France in focus

Inside a French emergency psychiatric unit: Social stigma, a lack of beds and drug shortages

France

Donald Trump’s warning on Tylenol and autism sparks medical debate in the US

Americas

RFK Jr accuses US health agency of Covid 'misinformation' after chief's ouster

Americas

US health agency’s Susan Monarez fired

Americas

RFK Jr. to cancel $500 million in funding for vaccine development

Americas

Gates Foundation commits $2.5 billion to 'ignored, underfunded' women's health

Americas

Climate change is changing the geography of infectious disease

Analysis
Environment

Dengue and chikungunya may soon be endemic in Europe due to global warming, research shows

Health

🌟The Bright Side: Uganda declares end to 6th Ebola outbreak

Africa

600 people killed and 263 million cases in 2023 of Malaria

EYE ON AFRICA

Reunion Island hospital boss calls for reinforcements amid virus outbreak

Europe

World Health Organization countries reach deal on pandemics

Second Texas child dies of measles amid surging infection rates

Americas

🌟The Bright Side: Groundbreaking research on multiple sclerosis wins 'Oscars of science'

Science

Reunion Island launches emergency health plan amid chikungunya epidemic

Focus

World Tuberculosis Day: India's endless war against TB

Asia / Pacific

Child in Texas dies in measles outbreak, in first US fatality in a decade

Americas

Health experts downplay risk of severe illness from HMPV virus circulating in China

Asia / Pacific
Focus

India: Forty years on, Bhopal disaster still plagues local residents

Asia / Pacific
Science

Bird flu in the US: What is the risk of human-to-human transmission?

Pakistan choked by thick smog, limits outdoor activities

Asia / Pacific

Easing the burden of sickle cell disease in Africa: more campaigners push for improved care

Africa
Science

How Egypt eradicated malaria after century-long effort

Africa
Eye on Africa

Rwanda reports eight deaths linked to Ebola-like Marburg virus

Africa

The battle against polio in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan

Polio vaccination campaign begins in Gaza

Middle East

Mpox vaccines to arrive in DR Congo, WHO says

Africa
Press Review

AI-enhanced blood tests could detect Parkinson's disease seven years before onset

Down to Earth

As climate warms, Europe braces for rise in mosquito-borne infections

Environment
Perspective

World Press Awards winner Lee-Ann Olwage on her love for storytelling through photography

Local cholera cases reported in French Indian Ocean island Mayotte

France
Science

World Malaria Day 2024: What you need to know about the disease

US officials say bird flu detected in Texan exposed to dairy cattle

Americas
Science

Tuberculosis remains world's second-deadliest infectious disease

Paris caters for Olympic romance by distributing 220,000 free condoms to athletes

Europe

Sounding the alarm: France sees explosion in syphilis cases

RISKY BEHAVIOUR
Europe
Science

Dengue fever outbreak in Brazil: Rio declares health emergency ahead of Carnival

Science

Gaza Strip 'absolutely unliveable', says Oxfam spokesperson

Middle East
Science

Cystic fibrosis: 'Miracle' drug Kaftrio is transforming lives of patients

France in focus

Invisible disabilities in France: A silent struggle

France

WHO says no new pathogens found as China sees spike in respiratory illnesses

Asia / Pacific
Focus

Indian state of Kerala hailed as leader in fight against epidemics

Asia / Pacific

Libyan UNESCO World Heritage sites threatened by floods

Protests erupt in Libya’s flood-hit Derna as UN flags threat of disease outbreak

Protests erupt in Libya’s flood-hit Derna as UN flags threat of disease outbreak

Africa

Paris fumigates for tiger mosquitoes as tropical pest spreads across Europe

Environment

Experimental drug slows progression of early Alzheimer's disease by 60%, study finds

Health

Nova Kakhovka dam destruction: Ukraine's Zelensky visits flooded region of Kherson

On the ground: Kherson residents flee under artillery fire after collapsed Kakhovka dam floods homes

About 600 sq km of Ukraine's Kherson region under water after dam destroyed

Kherson residents flee after collapsed Kakhovka dam floods homes

Ukraine wary of floating mines, disease spreading after Kakhovka dam collapse

Science

Europe monitors expansion of Asian tiger mosquitoes

Europe

One billion people at risk of cholera, UN warns

Europe
Press Review

A medical breakthrough! Promising new drug trial could help fight Alzheimer's

Eye on Africa

UN warns of risk of disease amid mass displacement out of Sudan

Africa

World Malaria Day: Social workers’ activist approach helps reduce cases in India’s Odisha

ON THE GROUND
Asia / Pacific
Perspective

Malaria vaccines are 'no magic bullet' but 'another tool' to fight disease, expert says

Africa

'Unprecedented’ situation as two African countries report outbreaks of Marburg virus

NEW EPIDEMICS
Africa

Yemen brutal war: The world's largest humanitarian crisis

Turkey quake aftermath: Concerns grow about spread of infectious diseases

Perspective

Author Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on living with MS and the power of literature

Turkish quake victims sleep in trains, tents, greenhouses

Earthquake aftermath: Threat of health crisis from poor sanitary conditions looms

Syria's Assad thanks 'Arab brothers' for quake aid

Disease the new threat as Turkey faces post-quake water shortage

WHO: 'Vaccination coverage in Ukraine has taken a huge blow since the start of the war'