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Ukraine needs more help to beat ‘superbugs’, says chief doctor
Soaring cases of drug-resistant bacterial infections in Ukraine have caused alarm among public health officials
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ICC puts its reputation on trial by chasing Netanyahu
Pursuit of democratically elected individuals who have been supported by the West will test court’s legitimacy
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Europe tightens H5N1 surveillance as winter flu season looms
The risk of H5N1 combining with other influenza viruses is predicted to soar by five-fold this winter
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South Africa declares ‘national disaster’ over spate of food poisonings
Investigators are trying to narrow down the cause of the contamination, which initial reports suggest may be a common pesticide
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How I assassinated my boss with an AI drone
The war in Ukraine has thrust drone warfare into the limelight
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Myanmar overtakes Syria and Ukraine in landmine deaths
The rise in landmines comes as fighting ramps up in civil war, which was sparked by a ruthless crackdown following a military coup in 2021
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Africa’s ‘Q’ cooks up arsenal of gadgets to fight malaria
Visiting a British-backed lab in rural Tanzania felt like stepping into the basement of MI6
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‘I couldn’t hug or touch my mother’ – EU launches major push to tackle antimicrobial resistance
More than 35,000 people die of antibiotic-resistant infections in Europe every year, and cases have risen across the region since 2019
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Global health chiefs welcome RFK’s attack on junk food as ‘poison’ and the need for more exercise
With obesity rates soaring, many experts have been lobbying for better regulation of the US ‘industrial food complex’ for years
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‘Bobby is an outlier’: Inside RFK Jr’s mad world of crackpots, cranks and vaccine conspiracies
The next US health secretary has suggested erecting a statue of the disgraced British doctor who claimed the MMR vaccine causes autism
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The Philippines will not intervene if Interpol arrests Duterte over ‘war on drugs’
Filipino government agrees to cooperate with the International Criminal Court after it resumed a stalled investigation into Mr Duterte
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‘Go wild, Robert’: Trump appoints RFK Jr – here’s what it could mean for health in the US... and beyond
President-elect vowed to untether Robert F Kennedy Jr to ‘go wild on health’. We explore what that might look like around the world
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Number of people globally with uncontrolled diabetes exceeds 445 million, study warns
First global analysis of diabetes trends finds that while prevalence of the condition has exploded, treatment rates have stagnated
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H5N1-infected teenager now in ‘critical condition’ say Canadian doctors
The patient, the country’s first presumed human case of H5N1, was previously healthy and had no underlying conditions
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‘I thought I’d be next’: Working in the ‘red zone’ of the world’s deadliest disease
Almost 80 per cent of Rwanda’s Marburg cases have been doctors and nurses. One medic describes the reality of treating the deadly virus
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Fertility agencies accused of promoting eugenics with embryo selection
Some American clinics claim they can ‘rank’ embryos for IVF using a genetic screening system which is illegal in the UK
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Libya introduces morality police to crack down on women’s dress and ‘strange’ haircuts
Interior minister says ‘personal freedom does not exist here in Libya’, adding those seeking it ‘should go to Europe’
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Teenager hospitalised with bird flu
Authorities are investigating whether the case in Canada is linked to the H5N1 outbreak in US dairy herds
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Iraq to lower the ‘age of consent’ for girls to nine
A new law proposed by ultra conservative Shia Muslim parties seeks to strip women and girls of their rights
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New case of dangerous mpox strain brings UK total to four
All four people infected with the new clade 1b strain are from the same household and are in isolation
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Death by stigma: The HIV patients in Malawi refusing life-saving medication
It took decades to make HIV drugs readily available in Africa – but now they are being left in the street
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What is mpox? Symptoms, transmission and vaccines
The WHO has declared a global health emergency over a new strain Clade 1b spreading in Africa. Here’s what you need to know
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How South Africa’s richest province is losing its STI battle
The country’s successful rollout of HIV anti-retroviral drugs has lulled many into a false sense of security around unprotected sex
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Two more cases of more dangerous mpox strain found in UK
The new strain, called clade 1b, is thought to cause more severe disease and spread more easily between people
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Kidnapped, trafficked and incarcerated: The unsettling death of a Rohingya child in India
Two years after Hamida Begum vanished from a Bangladesh refugee camp, she was found dead at a detention centre in mysterious circumstances
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How Russian interference threatens to derail malaria vaccines in Africa
The continent is being drenched in an avalanche of medical disinformation with the aim of undermining western influence
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Climate change blamed for major outbreak of mosquito-borne virus in Pakistan’s biggest city
Karachi’s record-breaking heatwave combined with rainfall has created more favourable breeding conditions for Aedes mosquitoes
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Peru’s forced sterilisation policy could constitute a crime against humanity
More than 300,000 women were sterilised under the guise of a family planning scheme during the 1990s
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H5N1 bird flu detected in pig for the first time in the US
The mammals are described as effective ‘mixing vessels’ for influenza because they have receptors for both avian and human flu viruses
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First case of dangerous new mpox strain confirmed in the UK
The patient, who had recently returned from Africa, has been transferred to a high-level isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London
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Surge in ‘walking pneumonia’ cases hits Japan, sparking mask warnings
The country typically sees a spike in mycoplasma pneumonia every five years, but the severity of the current outbreak is worrying experts
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World will miss ambitious TB targets without urgent technological breakthroughs
Tuberculosis killed an estimated 1.25m people last year, with a worrying sharp rise in cases across the Americas, annual survey finds
