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Mosquitoes at Singapore’s National Environmental Agency CREDIT: ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images |
An enclosure at Singapore’s National Environmental Agency is filled with Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes.
Since 2016, the city state has been releasing five million mosquitoes infected with the bacteria every week in a bid to wipe out dengue.
Wolbachia prevents the mosquitoes or their offspring from transmitting the virus at a cost of $35 million per year, or around $6 per resident.
It is just one of the measures that form part of a public health campaign that is described as the world’s “gold standard” in dengue prevention.
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The virus is behaving ‘extremely’ differently to clades 1 and 2 of mpox CREDIT: NIAID via AP |
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A new strain of mpox that causes miscarriage and has a fatality rate of up to 10 per cent is spreading rapidly in central Africa, a team of experts has warned.
There are fears the new virus – previously called monkeypox – could quickly spread to Europe and beyond.
The mutant variant, clade 1b, is “undoubtedly the most dangerous strain of mpox yet,” stressed Prof Trudie Lang, the director of Global Health Network at Oxford University.
The virus is behaving “extremely” differently to clades 1 and 2 of mpox – worryingly, the mutated strain does not require sexual contact to spread.
Maeve Cullinan explores what it could mean for the wider world. |
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Palestinian children wait to receive food donations in Rafah CREDIT: Belal Khaled/Anadolu via Getty Images |
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The threat of famine in Gaza Strip has been reignited after the Israeli military’s ground offensive in the southern city of Rafah obstructed the delivery of food aid, leaving more than half a million Palestinians on the brink of starvation, the UN said.
Palestinians across the Gaza Strip face a “plausible” risk of famine in the coming months, with all but four per cent of Gaza’s population facing “acute food insecurity”, says the latest analysis by the UN’s hunger monitoring system.
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How an NHS doctor could help prevent 100,000 meningitis deaths across Africa each year
The simple intervention in clinical practice – devised by the NHS medic – could cut mortality rates if rolled out.
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‘Seek care immediately’: Four dead in outbreak of waterborne disease following Brazil floods
Officials warn of more fatalities in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, which was hit with weeks of torrential rain.
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