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Targeted wastewater surveillance has a history of social and ethical concerns

Wastewater surveillance involves testing sewage to obtain data about a population’s health. While the technique is decades old, it has gained recent international prominence for its ability to predict pandemic surges, detect new SARS-CoV-2 variants and provide useful data when traditional testing methods reach capacity. With its success, the field…

The Conversation

WHO: COVID origins unclear but lab leak theory needs study

Experts drafted by the World Health Organization to help investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic say further research is needed to determine how COVID-19 first began

The Independent UK

Factbox-What the WHO says on how to find COVID-19's origins, prepare for next pandemic

A panel of experts drafted by the World Health Organization to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare a framework to investigate future outbreaks has published its first report.

Reuters

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Pandemic's origins obscured by lack of Chinese data - WHO panel

The World Health Organization said on Thursday its latest investigation into the origins of COVID-19 was inconclusive, largely because data from China is missing, another blow to its years-long effort to determine how the pandemic began.

Reuters

U.N. calls for justice after fatal shooting of Myanmar WHO worker

(Corrects typo in headline in word "shooting")

Reuters

Kneesy Does It – The Age For Knee Replacement Surgery Has Dropped Due To Obesity, Study Says

The age for knee replacement surgery has dropped due to the obesity crisis, a new study has revealed.

Zenger

How worried should you be about monkeypox?

As many as 302 cases of rare tropical virus now confirmed in UK

The Independent UK

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CMDA goes the extra mile to protect Chennai’s open spaces

Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) is preparing guidelines and laws to protect open spaces and to ensure that they are not lost to apartment complexes and commercial buildings. The city has only 0.81 sq m open space per capita which is much below the WHO guidelines–10-12 sq.m per

The Times of India

Monkeypox signs and symptoms: What to look for and how it spreads

Tropical disease originating in Africa has spread across the world since May

The Independent UK

More than 1,000 monkeypox cases reported to WHO across globe

More than 1,000 monkeypox cases have been reported to the World Health Organisation as it spreads to nearly 30 countries outside of Africa where it had been more commonly found.

Evening Standard

WHO: COVID Cases and Deaths Falling Nearly Everywhere

The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported globally fell everywhere except the Middle East and Southeast Asia last week, according to a World Health Organization weekly report released Wednesday. In its latest weekly update on the pandemic, the UN health agency said confirmed cases dropped 12% to more…

Asharq Al-Awsat

WHO: COVID cases and deaths falling nearly everywhere

The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported globally fell everywhere last week except the Middle East and Southeast Asia

The Independent UK

More than 1,000 monkeypox cases reported to WHO - briefing

There have been more than 1,000 monkeypox cases reported to the World Health Organization in the current outbreak outside the countries in Africa where it more commonly spreads.

Reuters

Monkeypox: Which countries have the most cases as virus linked to 66 deaths in Africa

The UK has 321 confirmed cases of the virus so far, nearly a third of the of the 1,107 known infections in non-endemic countries, latest data shows

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Wales Online

Everything you need to know about hepatitis as cases in children rise

WHO say that in this outbreak of acute hepatitis, cases have been more severe

The Independent UK

Monkeypox signs and symptoms: What to look for and how it spreads

Tropical disease originating in Africa has spread across the world since May

The Guardian - UK

NHS hiring more doctors from outside UK and EEA than inside for first time

Jeremy Hunt questions ‘morally dubious’ recruitment as thousands hired from poorer countries

The Independent UK

Doctors in UK must now report suspected monkeypox cases to health authorities

Total of 302 infections detected in Britain so far

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Why the malaria vaccine took 35 years

Malaria's complex biology played a role in the delay, but experts say there was also a lack of urgency and funding

The Guardian - UK

UK records 77 more cases of monkeypox, taking total to 302

Contacts of confirmed or suspected cases who develop rash with blisters asked to contact sexual health clinic

The Independent UK

How worried should you be about monkeypox?

As many as 302 cases of rare tropical virus now confirmed in UK

The Independent UK

What we know about monkeypox as rare virus spreads

Tropical disease now detected in 27 countries outside of Africa, according to World Health Organisation

The Independent UK

Monkeypox signs and symptoms: What to look for and how it spreads

Tropical disease originating in Africa has spread across the world since May

The Independent UK

UK: 73 new monkeypox cases, biggest outbreak outside Africa

British health officials have reported another 73 cases of monkeypox

The Independent UK

Monkeypox: 77 new cases identified in UK as total hits 302

Medics warn there is a ‘shortage’ of information for doctors on monkeypox in pregnant women

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