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SIGA Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:SIGA) has announced approximately $13 million in procurement orders for oral TPOXX (tecovirimat) The order includes $11 million for initial procaurement from two new international jurisdictions and an approximate $2 million order from a country in the Asia Pacific region with an established contract for oral TPOXX. "We expect a…

London’s public health chief has warned residents not to underestimate the danger of infectious diseases as the search continued for the source of a polio virus outbreak in the capital.

Whenever there is an outbreak of a disease in the world – such as monkeypox – it is up to the World Health Organization (WHO) to consider what sort of weight to give it, including whether or not it constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.

Malaria in India is perceived as a poor man's disease, thus receiving low priority in the public health agenda.

Minister for public health and sport, Maree Todd MSP, was also part of the procession, and she received the baton from McMahon on the last leg of its journey around Calton Hill.

UK Health Security Agency says evidence of limited community transmission of virus found in wastewater

The RADAR project, run by Public Health Scotland, is designed to help battle our calamitous overdose crisis by identifying where urgent action should be immediately centred.

The country registered 19 more Covid-19 fatalities and 2,387 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Wednesday morning.

Striking nurses and other health workers have brought Zimbabwe’s government hospitals to a near standstill, straining a once vibrant public health system now plagued by a lack of medicines and basic supplies such as gloves