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‘Fourth wave’: Dozens die of COVID in last 5 days in Bangladesh

At least 32 die in first five days of July as the country reports sharp rise in cases ahead of a major Muslim festival.

Al Jazeera

The national bidding war for ARPA-H

An intra-state bidding war has broken out for the chance to house the headquarters of a multi-billion-dollar new science agency aimed at curing major diseases—before the agency's structure has even been finalized by Congress.

Axios

Israel Rejects Early Release of Oldest Palestinian Prisoner

An Israeli committee on Tuesday rejected an appeal to release the oldest Palestinian prisoner, Fouad Shobaki, who was sentenced to 17 years in prison, of which eight months remain, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported. The Israeli early release committee is specialized in examining requests for the release of Palestinians…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Lyme disease: Why it is on the rise and how to protect against it

The bacterial infection is becoming increasingly common and a British mother is now bedbound because of a bite she received eight years ago

Evening Standard

Australian biosecurity ramps up amid foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Bali

The federal government announces a range of new measures to try and keep foot-and-mouth disease out of Australia as Indonesia grapples with an outbreak of the devastating condition.

ABC News

Gina Rodriguez speaks about her battle with Hashimoto’s disease: ‘I got an actor’s curse’

Rodriguez also speaks about how she gives herself positive affirmations as a result of bodily changes

The Independent UK

Calls for biosecurity to be beefed up

There have been renewed calls for increased biosecurity efforts at Australian airports after the discovery of foot and mouth disease in Bali.

AAP

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Ministry signs contract to buy long-acting antibody drug

The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday signed a procurement agreement with AstraZeneca for 257,500 doses of the long-acting antibody drug Evusheld, which boosts Covid-19 immunity in patients with low immunity levels.

Bangkok Post

Foot and mouth disease casts shadow over Eid festival in Indonesia

An outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Indonesia threatens to disrupt a ritual of slaughtering animals to mark the festival of Eid al-Adha this year, with livestock traders in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation bemoaning low sales.

Reuters

COVID and bust: China's private health system hurt by tough coronavirus controls

On March 24, a court in the central Chinese city of Fuyang announced that a $1.5 billion hospital built just four years earlier had filed for bankruptcy because it was unable to pay its debts.

Reuters

Special Report: Changing climate, changing diseases

For World Zoonoses Day on July 6 we cover the growing links between climate change and animal diseases which spread to humans.

360info

New tools needed to control the spread of mosquito-borne disease

Mosquitoes are the world’s deadliest creature, and they’re on the move.

360info

Dangerous ticks are increasingly coming in contact with people

Blood-feeding arthropods, like mosquitoes, insects and ticks are increasingly sharing their environments with humans due to the climate, with chronic results.

360info

Climate change doesn’t have to mean more insect-borne disease

As the world warms, diseases transmitted by insects may spread, but prevention strategies can break the link.

360info

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Could climate change lead to the next black plague?

Rodents are well known reservoirs of disease, and our lives will increasingly intersect as our shared environment warms.

Tribune News Service

New disease strikes Michigan trees. Arborists don't know how to treat it

A mysterious invasive disease has hit a stand of southeast Michigan trees, adding to a long list of threats faced by state forests.

ABC News

Farmers to be compensated if foot-and-mouth disease reaches Australia

Australian farmers are on high alert for any signs of foot-and-mouth disease in their livestock as it reaches Bali. Chief Vet Mark Schipp is urging any who find it to report it early.

Tribune News Service

Former NFL, Georgia Tech star Demaryius Thomas suffered from CTE at time of death

ATLANTA — Georgia Tech football star Demaryius Thomas, who died in December at the age of 33 of an apparent seizure, was found to have been suffering from the degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.

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The Hindu

Three-fold strategy to check seasonal diseases

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Fred Gray, the 'chief counsel for the protest movement,' to get Medal of Freedom for his civil rights work

Over the past seven decades, longtime Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and the victims of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, in which the U.S. Public Health Service refused for decades to provide readily available treatment to Black men who had the disease.

Benzinga

Chinook Secures Orphan Drug Status From European Commission For Kidney Disease Drug

Chinook Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: KDNY) announced that the European Commission has granted orphan drug designation for BION-1301 for the treatment of primary IgA nephropathy (IgAN).

The Hindu

Experts call for coordinated One Health mechanism in Kerala

‘Constant surveillance for zoonotic diseases is the need of the hour’

Irish Mirror

Irish dad with motor aggressive Motor Neurone Disease asks public for help with final wish for home for his wife and daughters

The 'Fight for Johnny's Girls' GoFundMe page has already surpassed €160,000

Benzinga

Dyne's Shares Gain After FDA Removed Clinical Hold On Muscular Disease Study

Dyne Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DYN) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has lifted the clinical hold and cleared its Investigational New Drug (IND) application to initiate a clinical trial of its drug DYNE-25.

Irish Mirror

Irish people urged to 'meet outdoors' again as government drafts Covid-19 'plan' for winter months ahead

“This [wave] is as a result of the sub-variant of the Omicron variant we're all very familiar with that causes disease."

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