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WHO urges US to share Covid origins intel
Feb 11, 2026 (AFP)
The global catastrophe killed an estimated 20 million people, according to the UN health agency, while shredding economies, crippling health systems and turning...
Penguins queue in Paris zoo for their bird flu jabs
Dec 05, 2025 (AFP)
It looked harmless enough but the seagull could pose an existential threat to the penguins with a devastating bird flu outbreak killing hundreds of millions of ...
Volcanic eruptions may have brought Black Death to Europe
Dec 05, 2025 (AFP)
The outbreak of bubonic plague known as the Black Death killed tens of millions and wiped out up to 60 percent of the population in parts of Europe during the m...
Brazil approves world's first single-dose dengue vaccine
Nov 26, 2025 (AFP)
Dengue, known for intense flu-like symptoms, crushing fatigue and body aches, reached record global levels in 2024 and researchers have attributed its spread to...
Flood-hit Mexican town digs out debris, fearing disease outbreaks
Oct 15, 2025 (AFP)
Vultures circle over the town of Huehuetla in the central state of Hidalgo, which, along with Puebla to the south and Veracruz in the east, bore the brunt of da...
Scientists sequence avian flu genome found in Antarctica
Aug 15, 2025 (UPI)
The work, led by the University of Chile and the Chilean Antarctic Institute, was published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal of the U.S. Centers for D...
Chikungunya in China: What you need to know
Aug 06, 2025 (AFP)
Here is what you need to know about the disease: - What is chikungunya? - Chikungunya is caused by a virus that can be passed to humans by infected mosquitoes, ...
New York declares total war on prolific rat population
Aug 06, 2025 (AFP)
China probes Wuhan ex-mayor who presided over Covid response
Jul 08, 2025 (AFP)
Zhou Xianwang served as the top Communist Party official in the Chinese metropolis from 2018 until early 2021, playing a major role in the handling of the first...
WHO says all Covid-19 origin theories still open, after inconclusive study
Jun 27, 2025 (AFP)
The global catastrophe killed an estimated 20 million people, according to the WHO, while shredding economies, crippling health systems and turning people's liv...
Deadly dengue fever impacts climate-hit Bangladesh coast
Jun 24, 2025 (AFP)
As climate change drives erratic weather patterns, experts point to a dire lack of clean drinking water in the wider delta -- where the snaking Brahmaputra and ...
After quitting WHO, US urges others to 'consider joining us': Kennedy
May 20, 2025 (AFP)
In a video message to the World Health Assembly -- the WHO's decision-making body -- Kennedy said the UN agency was under undue influence from China, gender ide...
Dengue, chikungunya may soon be endemic in Europe: research
May 14, 2025 (AFP)
Roughly half the world's population is already at risk of contracting the two diseases, which were once mainly confined to tropical regions. Both viruses cause ...
White House site blames China for Covid-19 'lab leak'
Apr 18, 2025 (AFP)
The Covid.gov website, previously focused on promoting vaccine and testing information, now includes a full-length image of President Donald Trump and criticize...
Pentagon invites back former military fired for refusing COVID-19 vaccines
Apr 08, 2025 (UPI)
"We're committed to doing right by those who were affected by the [Defense] Department's former COVID-19 vaccination policy," Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parn...
Merkel denies covering up report on Covid-19 origins
Mar 13, 2025 (AFP)
"The Chancellor rejects the accusation very clearly," her office said in a statement sent to the German Tagesspiegel daily. The weekly Die Zeit and Sueddeutsche...
Sudan cholera outbreak kills 70 in a week: officials
Feb 27, 2025 (AFP)
The outbreak White Nile state capital Kosti, followed a reported drone strike on the Um Dabakar power station, 275 kilometres (170 miles) south of Khartoum, whi...
Virus disinformation drives anti-China sentiment, lockdown fears
Feb 11, 2025 (AFP)
AFP's fact-checkers have debunked a slew of social media posts about the usually non-fatal respiratory disease human metapneumovirus after cases rose in China. ...
A new vaccine approach could help combat future coronavirus pandemics
Jan 29, 2025 (SPX)
In addition to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, sarbecoviruses - a subgenus of coronaviruses - include the virus that led to the outbreak of the orig...
China says 'extremely unlikely' Covid pandemic came from lab leak
Jan 27, 2025 (AFP)
"The conclusion that a laboratory leak is extremely unlikely was reached by the China-WHO joint expert team based on field visits to relevant laboratories in Wu...
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