Health

Food safety regulators in the United States and Canada are investigating a Hepatitis A outbreak potentially linked to tainted organic strawberries that has sickened 17 people in the United States and 10 in Canada, the agencies said. Fifteen illnesses were reported in California, and one each in Minnesota and North Dakota, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said. Twelve of …

The WHO said Monday it was not concerned for now that the spread of monkeypox beyond the African countries where it is typically found could spark a global pandemic. Since Britain first reported a confirmed monkeypox case on May 7, nearly 400 suspected and confirmed cases have been reported to the World Health Organization in nearly two dozen countries far …

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday launched Sindh Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) in Karachi. The launching ceremony of the Rescue 1122 service was held at Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC)’s sports complex. CM Murad Ali Shah was the chief guest of the ceremony. Addressing the ceremony, CM Murad said that initially the service was launched in Karachi …

The European press is awash with rumours that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not in the best of health; The Guardian claims that according to “unconfirmed and unverifiable reports”, he is suffering from cancer or Parkinson’s disease. There is also talk that the Russian leader “has survived a coup attempt or, as some tabloids think, he is already dead and has been replaced …

The federal government on Monday issued special instructions to all national and provincial health authorities to remain on high alert for any suspected case of monkeypox — a viral disease that has been spreading in Europe and elsewhere in recent days. According to a Radio Pakistan report, the Ministry of National Health Services is closely monitoring the situation and has debunked information …

SHANGHAI: The Chinese metropolis of Shanghai inched further towards a gradual reopening from two months of grinding Covid-19 lockdown, while officials in Beijing prepared to ease curbs in parts of the capital, saying on Saturday its outbreak was under control. Shanghai aims to essentially end its lockdown from Wednesday after relaxing restrictions over the last week. More people have been …

Spraying a cow with pesticides, health workers target blood-sucking ticks at the heart of Iraq’s worst detected outbreak of a fever that causes people to bleed to death. The sight of the health workers, dressed in full protective kit, is one that has become common in the Iraqi countryside, as the Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever spreads, jumping from animals to humans. …

Some prominent infectious disease experts are pushing for faster action from global health authorities to contain a growing monkeypox outbreak that has spread to at least 20 countries. They are arguing that governments and the World Health Organisation (WHO) should not repeat the early missteps of the Covid-19 pandemic that delayed the detection of cases, helping the virus spread. While monkeypox is …

BEIJING: China’s premier called for more to be done to stabilise the world’s second-largest economy, issuing an unusually stark warning as the country’s zero-Covid strategy bites into growth. China is the last major economy welded to a policy of mass testing and hard lockdowns to eliminate virus clusters, but the strict curbs have battered businesses. Restrictions around the nation in …

Germany has ordered 40,000 doses of a Bavarian Nordic (BAVA.CO) vaccine to be ready to vaccinate contacts of those infected with monkeypox if an outbreak in Germany becomes more severe, but officials are banking on other precautionary measures for now. Speaking at a press conference, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said on Tuesday that measures such as an isolation period of …