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Tuberculosis surrendered the title of the world’s deadliest infectious disease after COVID-19 struck, but it reclaimed that terrible distinction last year. As with COVID, a new vaccine could go a long way to sharply curtailing the disease, which killed about 1.4 million people a year before the pandemic and increased…

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Over 1.4 million affected by Cyclone Freddy that could be declared the longest ever in recorded history

In March 2020, weeks before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, its director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivered a speech in which he emphasised the importance of testing:

According to a study, India has the highest burden of TB globally, and the disease is responsible for killing about 480,000 people every year and more than 1400 every day in the country. WHO states that a total of 1.6 million people died from TB in 2021 (including 187 000…

Clearer answers would have taken some of the heat out of the debate around the possible viral origins.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday in a tweet that countries should not "cede authority" to the World Health Organization, and the U.N. health agency's chief quickly rejected his comments.

Tom Cruise reportedly no longer has a relationship with daughter Suri after splitting from Katie Holmes, but in contrast his elder kids are still members of the Church of Scientology and are estranged from mum Nicole Kidman

Recent deaths linked to drugs made in India underline the need for a global framework for quality control and swift cross-border action when things go wrong