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SIGA Technologies Announces $13M Worth Order For Its Monkeypox Treatment

SIGA Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:SIGA) has announced approximately $13 million in procurement orders for oral TPOXX (tecovirimat) The order includes $11 million for initial procaurement from two new international jurisdictions and an approximate $2 million order from a country in the Asia Pacific region with an established contract for oral TPOXX. "We expect a…

Benzinga

Make sure children have polio vaccine to prevent outbreak, urge scientists

London’s public health chief has warned residents not to underestimate the danger of infectious diseases as the search continued for the source of a polio virus outbreak in the capital.

Evening Standard

Covid cases in Scotland jump by almost a third in one week as sub variants surge

Data from Public Health Scotland show that cases of Covid-19 have jumped by almost a third in one week. Hospital admissions are also reported to have risen in that time

Edinburgh Live

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Covid cases spike in Scotland as highly infectious New York variant spreads

Public health expert Professor Linda Bauld has called for an extension of the vaccination programme to all over-50s.

Daily Record

2,299 new Covid cases, 18 more deaths

The country registered 18 more Covid-19 fatalities and 2,299 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Thursday morning.

Bangkok Post

Heal the nation before healing the rest of the world

Political or geopolitical expediency or cultural chauvinism should not be allowed to undercut India’s health interests

The Hindu

At what point is a disease deemed to be a global threat? Here's the answer

Whenever there is an outbreak of a disease in the world – such as monkeypox – it is up to the World Health Organization (WHO) to consider what sort of weight to give it, including whether or not it constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.

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India reports 86% fall in cases since 2015, 79% reduction in deaths due to Malaria

Malaria in India is perceived as a poor man's disease, thus receiving low priority in the public health agenda.

The Hindu

Edinburgh men carry Queen's baton around city ahead of 2022 Commonwealth Games

Minister for public health and sport, Maree Todd MSP, was also part of the procession, and she received the baton from McMahon on the last leg of its journey around Calton Hill.

Edinburgh Live

National incident declared over polio virus findings in London sewage

UK Health Security Agency says evidence of limited community transmission of virus found in wastewater

The Guardian - UK

New early-detection system to allow drug users to flag up bad batches of pills and overdose clusters

The RADAR project, run by Public Health Scotland, is designed to help battle our calamitous overdose crisis by identifying where urgent action should be immediately centred.

Daily Record

2,387 new Covid cases, 19 more deaths

The country registered 19 more Covid-19 fatalities and 2,387 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Wednesday morning.

Bangkok Post

Nurses at Zimbabwe's public hospitals strike for better pay

Striking nurses and other health workers have brought Zimbabwe’s government hospitals to a near standstill, straining a once vibrant public health system now plagued by a lack of medicines and basic supplies such as gloves

The Independent UK

This new California coronavirus wave isn't sticking to the script: Big spread, less illness

LOS ANGELES — In the last two years, COVID-19 has followed a predictable, if painful, pattern: When coronavirus transmission has rebounded, California has been flooded with new cases and hospitals have strained under a deluge of seriously ill patients, a distressing number of whom die.

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The National (Scotland)

Public health expert rubbishes Tory claim minimum alcohol pricing 'isn't working'

Tory MSP Sandesh Gulhane claimed the policy isn't working and that some were forgoing food in favour of expensive booze, but one expert did not…

Daily Record

Scotland's poorest five times more likely to die of alcohol-related causes

A new report found "stark inequalities" in alcohol-related hospital stays and deaths in Scotland.

Daily Record

Monkeypox cases in Scotland increase to 18

An update from Public Health Scotland said this was the total of as of noon on Sunday.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Vaccine disruptions and mistrust are ramping up measles risk

Pandemics have consequences beyond the death and disease directly caused by the novel pathogen. In the 1918 influenza pandemic, more deaths were caused by the pneumococcal bacterium among those made susceptible to bacterial infection by influenza than by the flu itself.

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Reason

Brickbat: Beat It

Video showed Cecelia Benavides, a teaching assistant at Freedom Elementary School in Fairfax, Virginia, striking one disabled student and pushing a rolling chair into another. A public health attendant at the school kept a journal detailing numerous incidents in which Benavides and teacher Cylmeera Gastav abused disabled children under their…

The Times of India

Saudi Arabia lifts COVID-travel ban from its citizens travelling to India

Saudi Arabia has finally lifted its travel-related curbs from India, Turkey, Ethiopia and Vietnam. Now, the citizens of Saudi can finally travel to these countries without any restrictions. The move comes right after a week the nation dropped some more measures related to Coronavirus. This includes, wearing of face masks…

The National (Scotland)

Alcohol deaths five times more likely in deprived areas

Bangkok Post

Fewest daily Covid cases for 13 months

The country registered 1,714 more Covid-19 cases during the previous 24 hours, the government said on Tuesday, 70 fewer than Monday and the lowest daily number since May 10, 2021.

Glasgow Live

Nearly 23 Scots die from alcohol consumption a week according to new data

Public Health Scotland shared new research on Tuesday regarding alcohol consumption, pricing, and harm in the country in the years since the start of the covid pandemic

Al Jazeera

Zimbabwe healthcare workers strike over wages, inflation crisis

Public health workers and other civil servants are demanding salaries in US dollars as inflation hits 132 percent.

Manchester Evening News

The latest on coronavirus in Greater Manchester as health bosses warn true number of cases could be far higher

Greater Manchester public health chiefs warned about the difficulties in judging coronavirus trends now free mass testing is no longer available

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