Health stories for the first half of March 2024

Editor’s picks Wuhan’s failed Covid response – and how the pandemic could have been avoided A new book by a world-leading China expert lifts the lid on the mistakes that allowed Covid-19 to infect the globe. Palestinian children subject to ‘starvation and beatings’ in Israeli prisons, charities say Save The Children cited testimonies of starvation

Frontpage messages for the week of November 27-December 03 2023

Looking the most important news facts for the last week of November 2023

New schoolyear also restart of Covid

The school year just started, but yesterday there were already several schools having to cope with sick pupils. In Belgium, 2700 COVID cases were already recorded yesterday, and those are only the registered cases. Doctors think there may be many more cases, people even not knowing they’ve caught Covid. In August 2023, sporadic detections of

About plots and conspiracy theorists who are spreading disbelief about climate change on social media

Disturbing truths By Olivia Rudgard and Daniel Zuidijk   When images and video of the tragic blazes in Maui began to filter out across the internet, rumors also started to spread. Across Facebook, TikTok and X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, commentators shared wild speculations that the fires, which have now taken the lives of more than

Composted Reads at the beginning of June 2023

Story of the week ‘Farming good, factory bad’, we think. When it comes to the global food crisis, it isn’t so simple | George Monbiot The good news More than 5,000 new species discovered in Pacific deep-sea mining hotspot Heat pumps: more than 80% of households in Great Britain ‘satisfied with system’ York groundsel blooms

Viruses, childhood vaccines and life-threatening bacteria

Karamba is one of Senegal’s most prolific witch doctors with a social media following in the hundreds of thousands Credit: Sam Bradpiece The young girl rocks manically back and forth on the sandy floor. Karamba towers over her, barking incantations, as he commands spirits to heal her. The girl screams and bangs her chest as

Highs and lows of the Corona crisis, and other health news

Jonathan Van-Tam shore fishing on a beach in Norfolk, where he went to decompress during the pandemi’s intense phase Credit: Simon Townsley When Covid struck, they found themselves on the frontline of the UK response. Three years on from the first lockdown, scientists and experts reflect on the highs and lows of the crisis –

Birds, dogs, viruses, vaccinations, mysteries & poisonings

Today’s top stories Mutation in bird flu virus moves it a step closer to humans Changes in the H5N1 virus are ‘concerning’, according to the ECDC, and may suggest its potential to jump to humans is increasing. Why scientists across the West are poised to start bird vaccinations The H5N1 avian flu outbreak has become

The Telegraph Frontpage of Thursday 2023 March 09

By Matthew Robinson The Telegraph’s exclusive investigation, The Lockdown Files, exposes that Matt Hancock was advised to steer clear of Wuhan lab leak comments in his Covid memoirs by the Cabinet Office. And we reveal that Boris Johnson privately warned Dominic Raab about his conduct. By Sam Hall Good evening. The Government has announced that

Global Headlines for 2023 March 01

Extending reach | Xi moved to consolidate the Communist Party’s hold over the world’s second-biggest economy, touting plans for sweeping changes to China’s bureaucracy and more influence within private companies. He said the party would roll out plans for “deepening structural reform” in the financial sector and boost control over science and technology, as well