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Health officials are monitoring the condition of 12 people who were in close contact with a traveller diagnosed with monkeypox who transited through Thailand for two hours while en route to Australia.

The environmental impacts of the tobacco industry, and its attempts to divert attention from them, are only beginning to be realised.

The World Health Organization said on Sunday that monkey pox constitutes a "moderate risk" to overall public health at global level after cases were reported in countries where the disease is not typically found.

Almost 180 cases of rare tropical virus now confirmed in UK

Tropical disease now detected in 23 countries including the UK, US, Canada, Australia, Spain and Portugal

Tropical disease now detected in 23 countries outside of Africa including UK, US, Spain and Portugal

Spraying a cow with pesticides, health workers target blood-sucking ticks at the heart of Iraq's worst detected outbreak of a fever that causes people to bleed to death. The sight of the health workers, dressed in full protective kit, is one that has become common in the Iraqi countryside, as…

National Tobacco Control Programme was launched in Jharkhand in 2012 when the tobacco prevalence rate in the State was 51.1 per cent

Pioneering Bristol study blames the solid-fuel burners in people’s homes for breaches of World Health Organisation guidelines