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Is monkeypox a pandemic? An epidemiologist explains why it isn’t likely to become as widespread as COVID-19, but is worth watching

Monkeypox is the latest global public health threat to make headlines. Most people who contract the monkeypox virus experience flu-like symptoms and a blistery rash that lasts two to four weeks, but a small percentage of infected people develop sepsis or other severe and potentially fatal complications.

The Conversation

In monkeypox failures, echoes of COVID

The first monkeypox case in the United States was confirmed in mid-May

Salon

Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 Covid strains spreading across the UK amid fears of jab protection wearing off

Cases have been rising over the last few weeks

Nottingham Post

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UK Covid infections rise by almost 30% in a week

Around 3.5 million people thought to have disease in first week of July

The Guardian - UK

Teenage girl whose GP said she had 'growing pains' diagnosed with horror rare disease

Abria Lewis, 15, visited her GP after she started complaining of pain in her right upper arm and shoulder when she was 10, but the doctor said it was probably just growing pains

Daily Mirror

What is viral haemorrhagic fever? Health experts investigate unexplained nosebleed disease

There have been 13 cases recorded so far, and three people have died.

Evening Standard

Covid warning over symptom of new strain that affects sufferers at night

‘Isn’t that strange?’ scientist says as he shares different disease caused by BA.5

The Independent UK

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Two Covid strains running rampant across UK amid fears vaccine protection waning

A world-leading expert tells The Mirror face masks and testing should return, as he warns the 'troubling' summer surge in cases driven by the immunity-defeating Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 Covid strains is merely the calm before the storm

Daily Mirror

Lisa Jarvis: More COVID boosters are coming, but who will take them?

Once a week, typically on the day that the Centers for Disease Control updates its COVID data tracker, I send my dad a text: “Did you make an appointment to get your booster?”

Tribune News Service

Central team rushed as Kerala reports first monkeypox case

Central team has been rushed to the State to adopt appropriate public health interventions

The Hindu

A new ‘miracle’ weight-loss drug really works — raising huge questions

Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy uses a hormone to regulate hunger. It’s wildly effective, but is it misguided?

Financial Times

The omicron subvariant dominating U.S. COVID-19 cases is more vaccine-resistant

The BA.5 strain represented 65% of cases from July 3 to 9, according to data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.

WEKU

Heart disease risk rises in men as they lose Y chromosome with age, study finds

Studies examining Y chromosome loss have ‘great promise’ for development of personalised medicines, scientists say

The Independent UK

India reports over 20,000 new COVID-19 cases, 47 fatalities

Active cases now comprise 0.32 per cent of the total infections.

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Reuters

In China's Wuhan, cholera-causing bacteria in turtles strikes nerve

Detection in the Chinese city of Wuhan of a bacteria that caused cholera in a student and was separately found in samples from softshell turtles at a food market has struck a sensitive nerve with ordinary Chinese people, with some relating it to COVID-19.

Daily Mirror

Deadly new ‘nosebleed’ disease similar to Ebola fever leaves doctors baffled

Three people have died from 13 cases so far of a worrying new "nosebleed" disease which appears to be a viral haemorrhagic fever but is leaving doctors mystified

Tribune News Service

CDC raises Dallas County COVID-19 level to red

DALLAS — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have raised Dallas County’s COVID-19 level to red as cases and hospitalizations continue to climb.

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Foot-and-mouth disease fears spark extra $14m in government funding to keep it out of Australia

Australia is bolstering its defence against a disease that threatens to wipe out the country's farm and tourism sectors.

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Pandemic behind 'largest backslide in childhood vaccination in a generation', says UN

Around 25 million children around the world missed out on routine vaccinations last year that protect against life-threatening diseases, as the knock-on effects of the pandemic continue to disrupt health care globally.

Wales Online

Tesco helping customers to spot killer diseases

Pharmacy staff have been trained to offer more advice and information on serious conditions

Bangkok Post

50k daily cases 'more likely'

The actual number of new daily Covid-19 infections may be as high as 50,000 compared with the official Ministry of Public Health figures, Nitipatana Chierakul, a respiratory disease expert with Siriraj Hospital, said on Thursday.

Bangkok Post

Haven't had Covid? Maybe you've just been lucky

There's a trend for experts who've yet to test positive for Covid to explain their disease virginity on social media, detailing all the steps they've taken to evade the increasingly pervasive virus. Covid virginity is becoming more special now that it describes a shrinking minority. The lucky few, like weight-loss…

Tribune News Service

Doctors warn US monkeypox response is lagging

WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified more than 1,000 cases of monkeypox in the United States, but even though the federal government has ample treatments and vaccinations on hand, physicians say bureaucratic red tape is hindering their ability to respond to and contain the outbreak.

Daily Record

Teen who doctors thought had growing pains diagnosed with rare chronic illness

Abria Lewis, 15, was found to have chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, an auto-immune disorder which prevents her from walking, talking and even breathing properly.

Daily Record

The top health benefits of switching to a vegetarian diet

One diet has been found to be highly effective in reducing the risk of cancer, heart disease and even obesity.

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