Mysterious hepatitis outbreak in children has now been spotted in 20 countries, WHO says

The World Health Organization has confirmed eight more countries have reported cases of mystery hepatitis in children. It brings the total n...

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Bird flu: China detects first human case of H3N8 bird flu

China has confirmed the first known human case of the H3N8 strain of avian flu. According to China's National Health Commission, a four-...

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"Time is not on our side" WHO confirms Ebola outbreak in Africa after second person dies from the disease

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed another outbreak of Ebola in Africa. WHO sounded the alarm after a second person died from...

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Man who became first ever patient to receive transplant of genetically-altered Pig heart dies two months later

David Bennett, 57, the first man to receive a transplant of a genetically altered pig heart has died two months after the successful transpl...

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COVID-19 killed 3,000 Nigerians in two years - NCDC

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced that an excess of 250,000 coronavirus cases and over 3,000 deaths were recorded ...

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Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine and drug sale to top $50 billion in 2022

Drugmaker, Pfizer has reported having more than double of annual profits due to its sales of vaccines in 2021, forecasting that the company ...

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Two cases of Lassa fever found in UK

Two cases of Lassa fever have been found in England, with a further “probable” case being investigated. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA...

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Lagos declares COVID-19 fourth wave over

The fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered by the Omicron variant has been declared over by Lagos government. The State Commissioner...

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Novak Djokovic is majority shareholder in biotech firm making COVID treatment

Serbian tennis star, Novak Djokovic is a co-founder and the majority shareholder in a firm developing a Covid-19 treatment. Djokovic who was...

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Next time the world suffers pandemic it could be worse than coronavirus' - Bill Gates

Billionaire Microsoft founder, Bill Gate has warned that future pandemics could be worse than the coronavirus pandemic. Gates spoke of his w...

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Covid pandemic is nowhere near over and new variants are likely to emerge - WHO

The World Health Organization has said the Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, despite plummeting cases in Europe. Director-General of the U...

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Fourth shot of Covid vaccine is not enough to prevent 'lots of infections' from Omicron, study finds

The fourth dose of the Covid vaccine is not effective on the Omicron variant and provides only limited defence, a preliminary study in Israe...

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WHO recommends two new drugs to treat COVID-19

The World Health Organisation has recommended two new drugs for COVID-19, providing yet more options for treating the disease. The WHO, in ...

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Poor nations rejected more than 100 million Covid-19 vaccines over short shelf-life - UNICEF

Poor nations rejected more than 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the global programme COVAX in December 2021, mainly du...

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16-year-olds can now receive COVID-19 jabs in Nigeria - NPHCDA

Nigerians aged 16 and 17 have been given a vaccination waiver by the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), to enable them...

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Pig heart transplanted into American man in breakthrough surgery

Surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center have performed the first-of-its-kind procedure on a Maryland resident identified as Da...

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New Covid-19 Strain 'Deltacron' detected in Cyprus

A researcher in Cyprus has discovered a strain of the coronavirus that combines the delta and omicron variants. Leondios Kostrikis, professo...

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Covid: UK records more than 150,000 deaths

More than 150,000 people in the UK have now died within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test since the pandemic began according to the UK Off...

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French scientists detect another variant linked to Cameroon and say it carries 46 mutations

French scientists have detected another Covid variant in France. The mutant strain has 46 mutations that are thought to make it both more va...

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