Cyclone Freddy Collapses Malawi’s Health System, Washing Away Medicines and Patient Records 22/03/2023 Josephine Chinele Submerged houses, collapsed buildings, uprooted trees and floating household items are what remains of Mtemangawa Village in Nsanje district, located in southern Malawi, bordering Mozambique. This is where one of the longest-lasting storms in the southern hemisphere, Tropical Cyclone Freddy, entered Malawi on March 12, 2023. Home to about 300 000 people, Nsanje is Malawi’s […] Continue reading -> Scientists Call For Global Plastics Treaty as Evidence of Health Impacts Mounts 22/03/2023 Megha Kaveri Human health is in grave danger because of plastics across their entire lifecycle, a new study has found. The study, conducted by an international consortium of scientists, has pointed out that from production to disposal, plastics are bad news. The team of scientists, led by the Boston College Observatory on Planetary Health, Australia’s Minderoo Foundation […] Continue reading -> High Drama as Scientists Who May Have Found COVID ‘Animal X’ Are Kicked off Data-sharing Platform 21/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan Raccoon dogs, lab leaks and Chinese secrecy have made for high drama as scientists who think they may have found the elusive “Animal X” that passed SARS-CoV2 were excluded from a data-sharing platform for “scooping” Chinese scientists. Nineteen scientists, including world-renowned figures such as Dr Michael Worobey and Dr Angela Rasmussen – have published a […] Continue reading -> Tanzania Identifies Mystery Virus as Marburg 21/03/2023 Kizito Makoye BUKOBA, Tanzania – Scientists have identified the mystery disease that has killed five people in the last week in Tanzania’s north-western Kagera region as the highly contagious Marburg virus, which is a filovirus like Ebola. Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu announced this on Tuesday but said that her government has managed to control the spread of […] Continue reading -> Next Decade Will Determine if We Can Stop Global Warming at 1.5ºC, Says IPCC 20/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan The world will heat up by at least 1.5ºC by the 2030s – and our best hope is that global warming does not “go blasting” way beyond this point, according to scientists from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC released its sixth synthesis report on climate change in Interlaken in […] Continue reading -> Neurodegenerative Diseases Are the Cost of Sports 20/03/2023 Stefan Anderson A new Lancet study of elite Swedish football players is the latest addition to a mounting pile of science linking high-level sports to the development of neurodegenerative conditions. The observational study tracked over 6,000 male footballers in Sweden’s top professional league between 1924 and 2019. It found they were 1.5 times more likely to develop […] Continue reading -> ‘Be Transparent’, Tedros Urges China After it Removes Online Data Linking Raccoon Dogs in Wuhan to Coronavirus 17/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan New evidence indicating that raccoon dogs from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan may have been infected with SARS CoV2 in January 2020 was published on a shared database by China’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January – but removed recently after scientists started asking questions. This was revealed at a media briefing […] Continue reading -> First Africa Polio Cases Linked to New Vaccine Detected, While Marburg and Cyclone Freddy Threaten Health 17/03/2023 Paul Adepoju Health authorities in Burundi have declared a national public health emergency response to an outbreak of circulating poliovirus type 2. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Africa region announced on Friday that polio had been detected in an unvaccinated four-year-old boy in Isale district in western Burundi and two other children who had been in contact […] Continue reading -> Cities Adopt Healthy Policies Despite Pushback from Big Commercial Interests 16/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan When London Mayor Sadiq Khan introduced a ban on junk food advertising on the city’s buses and tubes, he faced a backlash from big food companies. Meanwhile, tobacco companies went all-out trying to stop Montevideo in Uruguay and Kampala in Uganda from banning smoking in public areas, including resorting to litigation. Tobacco company Phillip Morris […] Continue reading -> As Cholera Cases Spike, There is No Short-Term Solution to Vaccine Shortage 15/03/2023 Megha Kaveri Five months after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that countries affected by cholera had to start rationing vaccine doses due to shortages, there is no immediate solution – yet cases are spiking. In 2022, 36 million vaccine doses were produced and a similar number is expected this year. “The South Korean manufacturer is making significant […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Scientists Call For Global Plastics Treaty as Evidence of Health Impacts Mounts 22/03/2023 Megha Kaveri Human health is in grave danger because of plastics across their entire lifecycle, a new study has found. The study, conducted by an international consortium of scientists, has pointed out that from production to disposal, plastics are bad news. The team of scientists, led by the Boston College Observatory on Planetary Health, Australia’s Minderoo Foundation […] Continue reading -> High Drama as Scientists Who May Have Found COVID ‘Animal X’ Are Kicked off Data-sharing Platform 21/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan Raccoon dogs, lab leaks and Chinese secrecy have made for high drama as scientists who think they may have found the elusive “Animal X” that passed SARS-CoV2 were excluded from a data-sharing platform for “scooping” Chinese scientists. Nineteen scientists, including world-renowned figures such as Dr Michael Worobey and Dr Angela Rasmussen – have published a […] Continue reading -> Tanzania Identifies Mystery Virus as Marburg 21/03/2023 Kizito Makoye BUKOBA, Tanzania – Scientists have identified the mystery disease that has killed five people in the last week in Tanzania’s north-western Kagera region as the highly contagious Marburg virus, which is a filovirus like Ebola. Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu announced this on Tuesday but said that her government has managed to control the spread of […] Continue reading -> Next Decade Will Determine if We Can Stop Global Warming at 1.5ºC, Says IPCC 20/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan The world will heat up by at least 1.5ºC by the 2030s – and our best hope is that global warming does not “go blasting” way beyond this point, according to scientists from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC released its sixth synthesis report on climate change in Interlaken in […] Continue reading -> Neurodegenerative Diseases Are the Cost of Sports 20/03/2023 Stefan Anderson A new Lancet study of elite Swedish football players is the latest addition to a mounting pile of science linking high-level sports to the development of neurodegenerative conditions. The observational study tracked over 6,000 male footballers in Sweden’s top professional league between 1924 and 2019. It found they were 1.5 times more likely to develop […] Continue reading -> ‘Be Transparent’, Tedros Urges China After it Removes Online Data Linking Raccoon Dogs in Wuhan to Coronavirus 17/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan New evidence indicating that raccoon dogs from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan may have been infected with SARS CoV2 in January 2020 was published on a shared database by China’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January – but removed recently after scientists started asking questions. This was revealed at a media briefing […] Continue reading -> First Africa Polio Cases Linked to New Vaccine Detected, While Marburg and Cyclone Freddy Threaten Health 17/03/2023 Paul Adepoju Health authorities in Burundi have declared a national public health emergency response to an outbreak of circulating poliovirus type 2. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Africa region announced on Friday that polio had been detected in an unvaccinated four-year-old boy in Isale district in western Burundi and two other children who had been in contact […] Continue reading -> Cities Adopt Healthy Policies Despite Pushback from Big Commercial Interests 16/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan When London Mayor Sadiq Khan introduced a ban on junk food advertising on the city’s buses and tubes, he faced a backlash from big food companies. Meanwhile, tobacco companies went all-out trying to stop Montevideo in Uruguay and Kampala in Uganda from banning smoking in public areas, including resorting to litigation. Tobacco company Phillip Morris […] Continue reading -> As Cholera Cases Spike, There is No Short-Term Solution to Vaccine Shortage 15/03/2023 Megha Kaveri Five months after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that countries affected by cholera had to start rationing vaccine doses due to shortages, there is no immediate solution – yet cases are spiking. In 2022, 36 million vaccine doses were produced and a similar number is expected this year. “The South Korean manufacturer is making significant […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
High Drama as Scientists Who May Have Found COVID ‘Animal X’ Are Kicked off Data-sharing Platform 21/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan Raccoon dogs, lab leaks and Chinese secrecy have made for high drama as scientists who think they may have found the elusive “Animal X” that passed SARS-CoV2 were excluded from a data-sharing platform for “scooping” Chinese scientists. Nineteen scientists, including world-renowned figures such as Dr Michael Worobey and Dr Angela Rasmussen – have published a […] Continue reading -> Tanzania Identifies Mystery Virus as Marburg 21/03/2023 Kizito Makoye BUKOBA, Tanzania – Scientists have identified the mystery disease that has killed five people in the last week in Tanzania’s north-western Kagera region as the highly contagious Marburg virus, which is a filovirus like Ebola. Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu announced this on Tuesday but said that her government has managed to control the spread of […] Continue reading -> Next Decade Will Determine if We Can Stop Global Warming at 1.5ºC, Says IPCC 20/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan The world will heat up by at least 1.5ºC by the 2030s – and our best hope is that global warming does not “go blasting” way beyond this point, according to scientists from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC released its sixth synthesis report on climate change in Interlaken in […] Continue reading -> Neurodegenerative Diseases Are the Cost of Sports 20/03/2023 Stefan Anderson A new Lancet study of elite Swedish football players is the latest addition to a mounting pile of science linking high-level sports to the development of neurodegenerative conditions. The observational study tracked over 6,000 male footballers in Sweden’s top professional league between 1924 and 2019. It found they were 1.5 times more likely to develop […] Continue reading -> ‘Be Transparent’, Tedros Urges China After it Removes Online Data Linking Raccoon Dogs in Wuhan to Coronavirus 17/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan New evidence indicating that raccoon dogs from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan may have been infected with SARS CoV2 in January 2020 was published on a shared database by China’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January – but removed recently after scientists started asking questions. This was revealed at a media briefing […] Continue reading -> First Africa Polio Cases Linked to New Vaccine Detected, While Marburg and Cyclone Freddy Threaten Health 17/03/2023 Paul Adepoju Health authorities in Burundi have declared a national public health emergency response to an outbreak of circulating poliovirus type 2. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Africa region announced on Friday that polio had been detected in an unvaccinated four-year-old boy in Isale district in western Burundi and two other children who had been in contact […] Continue reading -> Cities Adopt Healthy Policies Despite Pushback from Big Commercial Interests 16/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan When London Mayor Sadiq Khan introduced a ban on junk food advertising on the city’s buses and tubes, he faced a backlash from big food companies. Meanwhile, tobacco companies went all-out trying to stop Montevideo in Uruguay and Kampala in Uganda from banning smoking in public areas, including resorting to litigation. Tobacco company Phillip Morris […] Continue reading -> As Cholera Cases Spike, There is No Short-Term Solution to Vaccine Shortage 15/03/2023 Megha Kaveri Five months after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that countries affected by cholera had to start rationing vaccine doses due to shortages, there is no immediate solution – yet cases are spiking. In 2022, 36 million vaccine doses were produced and a similar number is expected this year. “The South Korean manufacturer is making significant […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Tanzania Identifies Mystery Virus as Marburg 21/03/2023 Kizito Makoye BUKOBA, Tanzania – Scientists have identified the mystery disease that has killed five people in the last week in Tanzania’s north-western Kagera region as the highly contagious Marburg virus, which is a filovirus like Ebola. Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu announced this on Tuesday but said that her government has managed to control the spread of […] Continue reading -> Next Decade Will Determine if We Can Stop Global Warming at 1.5ºC, Says IPCC 20/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan The world will heat up by at least 1.5ºC by the 2030s – and our best hope is that global warming does not “go blasting” way beyond this point, according to scientists from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC released its sixth synthesis report on climate change in Interlaken in […] Continue reading -> Neurodegenerative Diseases Are the Cost of Sports 20/03/2023 Stefan Anderson A new Lancet study of elite Swedish football players is the latest addition to a mounting pile of science linking high-level sports to the development of neurodegenerative conditions. The observational study tracked over 6,000 male footballers in Sweden’s top professional league between 1924 and 2019. It found they were 1.5 times more likely to develop […] Continue reading -> ‘Be Transparent’, Tedros Urges China After it Removes Online Data Linking Raccoon Dogs in Wuhan to Coronavirus 17/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan New evidence indicating that raccoon dogs from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan may have been infected with SARS CoV2 in January 2020 was published on a shared database by China’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January – but removed recently after scientists started asking questions. This was revealed at a media briefing […] Continue reading -> First Africa Polio Cases Linked to New Vaccine Detected, While Marburg and Cyclone Freddy Threaten Health 17/03/2023 Paul Adepoju Health authorities in Burundi have declared a national public health emergency response to an outbreak of circulating poliovirus type 2. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Africa region announced on Friday that polio had been detected in an unvaccinated four-year-old boy in Isale district in western Burundi and two other children who had been in contact […] Continue reading -> Cities Adopt Healthy Policies Despite Pushback from Big Commercial Interests 16/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan When London Mayor Sadiq Khan introduced a ban on junk food advertising on the city’s buses and tubes, he faced a backlash from big food companies. Meanwhile, tobacco companies went all-out trying to stop Montevideo in Uruguay and Kampala in Uganda from banning smoking in public areas, including resorting to litigation. Tobacco company Phillip Morris […] Continue reading -> As Cholera Cases Spike, There is No Short-Term Solution to Vaccine Shortage 15/03/2023 Megha Kaveri Five months after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that countries affected by cholera had to start rationing vaccine doses due to shortages, there is no immediate solution – yet cases are spiking. In 2022, 36 million vaccine doses were produced and a similar number is expected this year. “The South Korean manufacturer is making significant […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Next Decade Will Determine if We Can Stop Global Warming at 1.5ºC, Says IPCC 20/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan The world will heat up by at least 1.5ºC by the 2030s – and our best hope is that global warming does not “go blasting” way beyond this point, according to scientists from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC released its sixth synthesis report on climate change in Interlaken in […] Continue reading -> Neurodegenerative Diseases Are the Cost of Sports 20/03/2023 Stefan Anderson A new Lancet study of elite Swedish football players is the latest addition to a mounting pile of science linking high-level sports to the development of neurodegenerative conditions. The observational study tracked over 6,000 male footballers in Sweden’s top professional league between 1924 and 2019. It found they were 1.5 times more likely to develop […] Continue reading -> ‘Be Transparent’, Tedros Urges China After it Removes Online Data Linking Raccoon Dogs in Wuhan to Coronavirus 17/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan New evidence indicating that raccoon dogs from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan may have been infected with SARS CoV2 in January 2020 was published on a shared database by China’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January – but removed recently after scientists started asking questions. This was revealed at a media briefing […] Continue reading -> First Africa Polio Cases Linked to New Vaccine Detected, While Marburg and Cyclone Freddy Threaten Health 17/03/2023 Paul Adepoju Health authorities in Burundi have declared a national public health emergency response to an outbreak of circulating poliovirus type 2. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Africa region announced on Friday that polio had been detected in an unvaccinated four-year-old boy in Isale district in western Burundi and two other children who had been in contact […] Continue reading -> Cities Adopt Healthy Policies Despite Pushback from Big Commercial Interests 16/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan When London Mayor Sadiq Khan introduced a ban on junk food advertising on the city’s buses and tubes, he faced a backlash from big food companies. Meanwhile, tobacco companies went all-out trying to stop Montevideo in Uruguay and Kampala in Uganda from banning smoking in public areas, including resorting to litigation. Tobacco company Phillip Morris […] Continue reading -> As Cholera Cases Spike, There is No Short-Term Solution to Vaccine Shortage 15/03/2023 Megha Kaveri Five months after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that countries affected by cholera had to start rationing vaccine doses due to shortages, there is no immediate solution – yet cases are spiking. In 2022, 36 million vaccine doses were produced and a similar number is expected this year. “The South Korean manufacturer is making significant […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Neurodegenerative Diseases Are the Cost of Sports 20/03/2023 Stefan Anderson A new Lancet study of elite Swedish football players is the latest addition to a mounting pile of science linking high-level sports to the development of neurodegenerative conditions. The observational study tracked over 6,000 male footballers in Sweden’s top professional league between 1924 and 2019. It found they were 1.5 times more likely to develop […] Continue reading -> ‘Be Transparent’, Tedros Urges China After it Removes Online Data Linking Raccoon Dogs in Wuhan to Coronavirus 17/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan New evidence indicating that raccoon dogs from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan may have been infected with SARS CoV2 in January 2020 was published on a shared database by China’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January – but removed recently after scientists started asking questions. This was revealed at a media briefing […] Continue reading -> First Africa Polio Cases Linked to New Vaccine Detected, While Marburg and Cyclone Freddy Threaten Health 17/03/2023 Paul Adepoju Health authorities in Burundi have declared a national public health emergency response to an outbreak of circulating poliovirus type 2. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Africa region announced on Friday that polio had been detected in an unvaccinated four-year-old boy in Isale district in western Burundi and two other children who had been in contact […] Continue reading -> Cities Adopt Healthy Policies Despite Pushback from Big Commercial Interests 16/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan When London Mayor Sadiq Khan introduced a ban on junk food advertising on the city’s buses and tubes, he faced a backlash from big food companies. Meanwhile, tobacco companies went all-out trying to stop Montevideo in Uruguay and Kampala in Uganda from banning smoking in public areas, including resorting to litigation. Tobacco company Phillip Morris […] Continue reading -> As Cholera Cases Spike, There is No Short-Term Solution to Vaccine Shortage 15/03/2023 Megha Kaveri Five months after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that countries affected by cholera had to start rationing vaccine doses due to shortages, there is no immediate solution – yet cases are spiking. In 2022, 36 million vaccine doses were produced and a similar number is expected this year. “The South Korean manufacturer is making significant […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
‘Be Transparent’, Tedros Urges China After it Removes Online Data Linking Raccoon Dogs in Wuhan to Coronavirus 17/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan New evidence indicating that raccoon dogs from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan may have been infected with SARS CoV2 in January 2020 was published on a shared database by China’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January – but removed recently after scientists started asking questions. This was revealed at a media briefing […] Continue reading -> First Africa Polio Cases Linked to New Vaccine Detected, While Marburg and Cyclone Freddy Threaten Health 17/03/2023 Paul Adepoju Health authorities in Burundi have declared a national public health emergency response to an outbreak of circulating poliovirus type 2. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Africa region announced on Friday that polio had been detected in an unvaccinated four-year-old boy in Isale district in western Burundi and two other children who had been in contact […] Continue reading -> Cities Adopt Healthy Policies Despite Pushback from Big Commercial Interests 16/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan When London Mayor Sadiq Khan introduced a ban on junk food advertising on the city’s buses and tubes, he faced a backlash from big food companies. Meanwhile, tobacco companies went all-out trying to stop Montevideo in Uruguay and Kampala in Uganda from banning smoking in public areas, including resorting to litigation. Tobacco company Phillip Morris […] Continue reading -> As Cholera Cases Spike, There is No Short-Term Solution to Vaccine Shortage 15/03/2023 Megha Kaveri Five months after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that countries affected by cholera had to start rationing vaccine doses due to shortages, there is no immediate solution – yet cases are spiking. In 2022, 36 million vaccine doses were produced and a similar number is expected this year. “The South Korean manufacturer is making significant […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
First Africa Polio Cases Linked to New Vaccine Detected, While Marburg and Cyclone Freddy Threaten Health 17/03/2023 Paul Adepoju Health authorities in Burundi have declared a national public health emergency response to an outbreak of circulating poliovirus type 2. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Africa region announced on Friday that polio had been detected in an unvaccinated four-year-old boy in Isale district in western Burundi and two other children who had been in contact […] Continue reading -> Cities Adopt Healthy Policies Despite Pushback from Big Commercial Interests 16/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan When London Mayor Sadiq Khan introduced a ban on junk food advertising on the city’s buses and tubes, he faced a backlash from big food companies. Meanwhile, tobacco companies went all-out trying to stop Montevideo in Uruguay and Kampala in Uganda from banning smoking in public areas, including resorting to litigation. Tobacco company Phillip Morris […] Continue reading -> As Cholera Cases Spike, There is No Short-Term Solution to Vaccine Shortage 15/03/2023 Megha Kaveri Five months after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that countries affected by cholera had to start rationing vaccine doses due to shortages, there is no immediate solution – yet cases are spiking. In 2022, 36 million vaccine doses were produced and a similar number is expected this year. “The South Korean manufacturer is making significant […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Cities Adopt Healthy Policies Despite Pushback from Big Commercial Interests 16/03/2023 Kerry Cullinan When London Mayor Sadiq Khan introduced a ban on junk food advertising on the city’s buses and tubes, he faced a backlash from big food companies. Meanwhile, tobacco companies went all-out trying to stop Montevideo in Uruguay and Kampala in Uganda from banning smoking in public areas, including resorting to litigation. Tobacco company Phillip Morris […] Continue reading -> As Cholera Cases Spike, There is No Short-Term Solution to Vaccine Shortage 15/03/2023 Megha Kaveri Five months after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that countries affected by cholera had to start rationing vaccine doses due to shortages, there is no immediate solution – yet cases are spiking. In 2022, 36 million vaccine doses were produced and a similar number is expected this year. “The South Korean manufacturer is making significant […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
As Cholera Cases Spike, There is No Short-Term Solution to Vaccine Shortage 15/03/2023 Megha Kaveri Five months after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that countries affected by cholera had to start rationing vaccine doses due to shortages, there is no immediate solution – yet cases are spiking. In 2022, 36 million vaccine doses were produced and a similar number is expected this year. “The South Korean manufacturer is making significant […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts