Anthrax confirmed as ‘mystery’ disease behind deaths in Uganda

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE A mystery disease which has killed up to 17 people in Uganda has been confirmed as anthrax, health officials said. The outbreak striking Kyotera district has seen infected patients suffer rashes and swollen limbs before dying. As many as 40 are thought to … Read more

‘A drug-resistant infection left me housebound and unable to work’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Vanessa Carter, 44, is also living with the fallout from AMR. An executive director, she battled a recurrent MRSA infection following a car crash that led to multiple reconstructive surgeries on her face. A cheek prosthetic Ms Carter had implanted during one surgery … Read more

UAE to lease millions of hectares of land in Africa to generate carbon credits

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Africa is home to some of the biggest ‘carbon sinks’ on the planet. Its forests absorb billions of tons of carbon dioxide each year and are thought to be crucial in the fight against global warming. Protecting such forests has long been said … Read more

Covid-19 vaccines may have prevented thousands of premature births, study suggests

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Covid-19 vaccinations may have prevented thousands of premature births, new research suggests. Mothers infected with the Covid virus were significantly more at risk of delivering early in the beginning stages of the pandemic, prior to the rollout of vaccines, according to the study, … Read more

Asian neighbours ‘put guard up’ amid fears China’s wave of disease will spread

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Meanwhile, paediatric wards in southern Vietnam are full of patients with a mix of seasonal infections, including RSV, influenza and hand, foot and mouth disease, prompting hospitals to expand their bed capacity and bring in extra staff.  At Can Tho Children’s Hospital, an … Read more

‘I performed six amputations in one night’: London doctor recalls war horrors after 43 days in Gaza

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Prof Abu-Sittah described how many of the people on his operation table were victims of fragmentary missiles fired by the Israelis and required guillotine amputations in “very tough” parts of their bodies – such as the mid thigh, where medics had to saw … Read more

Fears grow over mystery illness that has killed at least 14 people in Uganda

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE African health experts are urgently investigating a mystery disease outbreak in Uganda which has killed at least 14 people and seen some 40 fall ill. The mystery disease is being probed by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and … Read more

Dispatch: The invisible killer haunting Laos 50 years after the Vietnam War

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Clearing this land is a slow, repetitive process which got off to a slow start. Nationwide, bomb clearance organisations eventually launched operations from 1994; North Vietnam’s communist allies Pathet Lao took control after the war, and for two decades the nation was largely … Read more

Mpox kills 600 in largest ever DRC outbreak

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Nearly 600 have died of suspected mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, with a further 11,988 infected, in what has become the nation’s largest-ever outbreak.  The death toll surpasses the 112 global fatalities recorded during last summer’s outbreak, when the … Read more

AI tool outperforms experts in spotting breast cancer, says new study

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Artificial Intelligence is significantly better at spotting breast cancer than humans, a new study has found. The research, published in Nature, found that an AI device which utilised sophisticated image recognition technology to scan mammograms detected up to 13 per cent more breast … Read more

China gave ‘tacit blessing’ to armed resistance movement sweeping Myanmar

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “Beijing was really not happy with the coup. It damaged Chinese interests. It made China’s strategic objectives in Myanmar more difficult to achieve,” he said. The scam centres “added another layer” to frayed relations, he continued. The Chinese media has suggested that an … Read more

WHO asks China for more data on spread of ‘mystery’ child pneumonia

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “WHO requested additional epidemiologic and clinical information, as well as laboratory results from these reported clusters among children, through the International Health Regulations mechanism,” the UN agency said.  “We have also requested further information about recent trends in the circulation of known pathogens … Read more

Science our best bet to fight and beat food insecurity

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In July this year, India halted the export of basmati rice to prevent domestic shortages, triggering global spikes in prices. Argentina’s worst drought in 60 years cost the agricultural sector $20 billion. And the war between Ukraine and Russia has led to major … Read more

Mystery child pneumonia outbreak reported in China hospitals

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In an editor’s note, ProMed said: “This report suggests a widespread outbreak of an undiagnosed respiratory illness … It is not at all clear when this outbreak started as it would be unusual for so many children to be affected so quickly. The … Read more

Can David Cameron make Britain a development superpower again? Only time will tell

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The return of Cameron to office is being seen as a win for the sector. He brings with him international clout and a wealth of experience from his time in No 10, which, it’s hoped, will be leveraged to better support the world’s … Read more

‘Super mosquito’ driving malaria surge in Africa, study confirms

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE They also analysed which malaria parasites the insects were carrying, and found they were the same as the strains causing disease in people. “We found a strong geographical and clinical interlink between An. stephensi and the [malaria parasite],” Dr Sedda, a co-author of … Read more

Gaza races to disinfect refugee shelters as disease starts to spread

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Ahmad Najjar, Anera’s Medical Donations Programme Officer in Gaza, told the Telegraph that dermatological diseases resulting from overcrowding are spreading like wildfire.  “It is related directly to the absence of hygienic tools, mainly water and the very limited numbers of bathrooms,” he told … Read more

Singapore launches fish farm in a shipping container to bolster food security

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE From the outside, there’s little to suggest the nondescript grey shipping container could help transform Singapore’s food security. Yet the city-state has high hopes for the project lurking within the 20-foot-vessel. Deposited on a gravel plot in eastern Singapore, this is the country’s … Read more

Zimbabwe declares state of emergency amid cholera epidemic

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Zimbabwe has declared a state of emergency in the capital Harare following a cholera outbreak.  Over 7,000 cases have been recorded so far, killing dozens of people.  Officials have said that the events bear the hallmarks of a deadly outbreak in 2008 that … Read more

Measles cases boom around the world, new data reveal

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE There was a “staggering” increase in measles cases and deaths in 2022 amid rising vaccine hesitancy and pandemic related disruption, according to a new report.  Estimated deaths globally jumped by 43 per cent in 2022 to 136,000, mostly among children, a report from … Read more

Global food security is in crisis – here’s how to fix it

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE To advance those priorities, President Lula has announced the creation of a special task force under the G20, whose mission will be to forge a new Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty. The Alliance will be a mechanism to raise financial resources and … Read more

Horrors of forgotten Sudan war ‘verging on pure evil’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE More than 10,400 people have been killed so far, according to one conservative estimate by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project. With hospitals largely not working and many dead being buried uncounted at home, the true toll is thought to be … Read more

Telegraph photographer named Photo Journalist of the Year

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Telegraph photographer Simon Townsley has been named Photo Journalist of the Year at the Society of Editors’ Media Freedom Awards (MFA). Judges described Townsley – who works for the Global Health Security desk – as “a photographer that takes us to the edge … Read more

Loneliness a ‘pressing’ global health threat that takes years off people’s lives, warns WHO

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The WHO’s commission is made up of 11 experts and policy-makers, including Ayuko Kato, the minister in charge of measures for loneliness and isolation in Japan, and Hina Jillani, Senior Pakistani Advocate and Human Rights Defender.  It will attempt to shape global policy … Read more

Russia’s ‘weaponisation’ of Ukrainian grain ‘highly likely’ a war crime

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “We saw a systematic approach to the way that food was being weaponised within the conflict,” said Catriona Murdoch, the lead of the GRC’s Starvation Mobile Justice Team. “We’ve not seen anything as sophisticated as this in terms of the ability to transfer … Read more

‘Tragic milestone’ hit as 1,000 attacks against doctors and hospitals recorded in Myanmar

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The Insecurity Insight report added that Sagaing – a region in northwest Myanmar which has seen some of the fiercest clashes, and where few international humanitarian operators can access – has been hardest hit, with at least 215 incidents reported.  A doctor operating … Read more

‘My brother played football all over the world – his suicide was a complete shock’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Uruguay does not offer a good quality of life after retirement, says Dr Monza, and society no longer values its elders. “The social integration of older people – once they have finished their working life – is affected by the social ‘devaluation’ of … Read more

‘Drone sniper’ firing at targets close to Gaza hospital, says trapped British doctor

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE A surgeon in Al Shifa hospital said it faced very intense bombardments by the Israeli military, while the World Health Organisation has said al-Shifa is no longer “functioning as a hospital anymore” due to severe fuel and power shortages. “The tanks are in … Read more

‘Huge leap forward’ as world’s first vaccine for chikungunya virus is approved

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The disease has similar symptoms to dengue and Zika – including fever, severe joint pain and swelling, headaches, fatigue and a rash – and is spread by the same mosquito, complicating diagnosis. It is rarely fatal – of about 440,000 cases reported as … Read more

How to break the cycle of panic and neglect surrounding pandemics

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The global response of governments during this pandemic has partly validated epidemiologist Larry Brilliant’s observation that “outbreaks are inevitable, but pandemics are optional”. While responding swiftly and collaboratively is well accepted and documented in pandemic post-mortem reviews, one cannot help but wonder if … Read more

Myanmar junta faces ‘biggest threat’ since coup as fighting engulfs border region

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Intense fighting in northern Myanmar has forced 50,000 people to flee, with military leaders conceding that the country is in danger of breaking apart unless it can contain the clashes. A fortnight ago, an alliance of armed ethnic forces and newer anti-coup groups … Read more

Inside Gaza’s bombarded hospitals: ‘I told Israel, I cannot move my patients or they will die’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Another pregnant woman described being “buried in rubble” following an airstrike. “My face was all covered in blood, my hands, and my legs. Honestly, I couldn’t feel them,” said 26-year-old Sondos. “I was transferred to the operating room for my legs because bones … Read more

Doctor who caught Crimean-Congo fever at Pakistan hospital dies in ambulance traffic jam

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE According to the hospital’s outbreak report, there were several “critical lapses” in infection prevention standards. This included the “use of contaminated cleaning equipment and medical equipment between the ICU and ward,” “congested ICU space with inadequate ventilation” and “non-use of PPE … in … Read more

Gaza’s largest hospital hit by Israeli strikes while others surrounded

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Israeli strikes have hit Gaza’s largest hospital while tanks surrounded others, Palestinian officials say, as intense fighting continues. Palestinian officials said on Friday that overnight strikes hit al-Shifa hospital, killing at least one person and wounding others. The Indonesian Hospital was also damaged, … Read more

‘Nothing short of astounding’: How Egypt defied the odds to eliminate hepatitis C

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE A screening programme began too, integrated within the National Demographic Health survey, which helped to better identify where the problem was most acute. The tide further turned after the US Food and Drug Administration approved sofosbuvir, a direct-acting antiviral drug with a 90 … Read more

Global tuberculosis rates reach record levels, WHO warns

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The ancient killer remains the world’s second deadliest infectious disease, after Covid-19 – and it caused almost twice as many deaths as HIV/Aids. It is an airborne bacterial pathogen caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and although it typically affects the lungs, it can seep into the … Read more

Experts warn of ‘respiratory health disaster’ as toxic air engulfs New Delhi

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‘Bodies scratched, bleeding and full of flies’: Infections plague Gaza’s hospitals

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Dr Abusada shared a video, filmed on November 3, from inside the main operating theatre in al-Shifa. It shows the corridors lined with beds, and even cribs for young children, that are filled with bloodied bodies. Several of the injured appear to have … Read more

‘I’ll have to marry off my daughters’: Refugees await deportation to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Many of the people who are being forcibly uprooted from Pakistan face destitution in the country that is technically their homeland, with no connections and nowhere to live after decades outside the country. Making the situation more precarious is the onset of winter, … Read more

Monkeypox ‘circulating for five years’ before 2022’s global health emergency

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Monkeypox was circulating for at least five years before sparking a global health emergency in 2022, research has found It is likely that the infection, now known as Mpox, burst onto the international stage last year because it had mutated to better spread … Read more

North Korean defectors take on China over forced returns of fellow escapees

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE British parliamentarians from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea are among those calling for the international community to pressure China to grant escapees safe passage to asylum in the South. The defectors heading to New York hope to urge UN human rights … Read more

Jail for Indonesian drug manufacturers over cough syrup linked to 200 child deaths

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In Indonesia, prosecutors in East Java found the four defendants guilty of producing pharmaceutical products that did not meet safety standards. The ruling referred to events between October 2021 and February 2022, when Ali Farma received two batches of propylene glycol, which is … Read more

How Sydney beat back HIV – and what other cities can learn

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Humanitarian aid for Gaza could be diverted by Hamas, charity warns

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Vital humanitarian aid being delivered into Gaza could be diverted by Hamas terrorists, Save The Children has warned. An average of 14 aid trucks are currently entering the enclave each day, UN officials say. Prior to the war, around 500 trucks were granted … Read more

Aid delivered to Gaza could be intercepted by Hamas, charity warns

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Vital humanitarian aid being delivered into Gaza could be diverted by Hamas terrorists, Save the Children has warned. An average of 14 aid trucks are entering the territory each day, UN officials say. Prior to the war, more than 500 trucks were granted … Read more

Doctors in Gaza perform caesareans by torch light as mothers die in childbirth, aid groups warn

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, of the 8,525 people that have been killed since the beginning of the month, 3,542 of these were children, and 2,187 were women.  The number of children reported killed in Gaza in the past three weeks … Read more

How Thailand became the ‘new Benidorm’ for retiring and elderly Britons

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Care Resort Chiang Mai, a retirement facility that offers 24-hour nursing care, including physiotherapy and dementia support, has seen the number of residents climb from 22 at the end of 2020 to 59 today. Over half are now from the UK.  “2021 it … Read more

Rampant mistrust leaves the world more vulnerable to pandemics, experts warn

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Rampant mistrust between and within countries has undermined efforts to improve pandemic preparedness and left the world more vulnerable to future disease outbreaks, experts have warned. According to a report from the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) – which was set up by … Read more

Survivors and grieving families left adrift a year on from South Korea’s deadly Hallowe’en crush

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “It’s been a year since the tragedy, but the truth hasn’t been revealed, and no one has been held accountable by admitting, ‘It’s my mistake,’ or ‘It’s my fault’,” Yu Hyoung-woo, whose daughter Yu Yeon Joo died in Itaewon, told reporters in Seoul … Read more

The children of Israel and Gaza are crying out for help – the world should listen

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Heart-rending images of children dug out of rubble, videos of children snatched from their homes, grieving parents and tiny body bags tell their own story.  Only a trickle of humanitarian aid is getting through, leaving already vulnerable children at risk of disease, malnutrition, … Read more

‘There is no safe place’: Gaza’s hospitals swamped as Palestinians shelter among the sick and dying

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Numerous hospitals in the north of Gaza were told by the Israeli army to evacuate ahead of the ground invasion. Dr Murad received one of these calls last week, and was urged to move his patients and staff to the south of the … Read more

WHO urges Hamas to provide ‘proof of life’ for hostages

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The UN has meanwhile said that it is on the verge of running out of fuel in the Gaza Strip, which has been heavily devastated by Israeli airstrikes in the wake of the October 7 dawn raids. The claim, made by the UN … Read more

Climate change is one of our biggest health threats – humanity faces a staggering toll unless we act

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE This future cannot be our reality. That’s why we are calling on governments and key stakeholders around the world to come to COP28 with ambitious solutions that prevent these health outcomes – and help those already affected.  As the world’s response to Covid-19 … Read more

Gender inequality fuelling ‘Great Resignation’ of women health workers across the world

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Chloe Jones, 25, left the NHS only two years into her nurse training after experiencing the unbearable burden too commonly placed on women health workers. “There’s a lack of understanding for what women in the health sector go through. We’re just expected to … Read more

Bird flu detected in Antarctica for first time as fears grow of mass wipe-outs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Bird flu has been detected in Antarctica for the first time, raising fears of a mass wipe-out of the continent’s avian populations. The highly-pathogenic H5N1 strain has already killed millions of birds across the globe over the past year, and has now hit … Read more

The world is precariously dependent on just a handful of staple food crops – we must diversify

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In the first instance, global food supplies would be more resilient and nutritious if they were diversified beyond the “big three” – rice, maize and wheat. While increases in production and productivity for these crops have played a fundamental role in averting famine … Read more

Almost half the world’s population could be at risk from dengue due to global warming

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Dr Louise Blair, Airfinity’s Director of Analysis and Insights, warns that the threat posed by dengue must not be overlooked as cases continue to spread beyond the traditional tropical hotspots into the global north. “In the short term, southeast Asia is at the … Read more

Afghanistan’s haemophilia patients suffer as country faces shortage of clotting drugs

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Afghanistan, which has a population of 35 million, has nearly 35,000 people with bleeding coagulation disorders, estimates suggest. Up to 4,000 of these are thought to suffer from haemophilia, according to the National Blood Bank (NBB), the country’s only healthcare centre for haemophilia … Read more

Veterans join Pacific Islanders in bid for nuclear testing compensation

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Climate change blamed for ‘concerning’ rise of flesh-eating infections

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE More than 40 “flesh-eating” infections have been identified in Florida this year amid record-high water temperatures in the North Atlantic.  The bacterium Vibrio vulnificus, which thrives in warm seawater, has killed ten people in the state this year out of 43 infections, giving … Read more

Scientists racing to stop the next pandemic take inspiration from pioneering Covid trials

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Where the focus throughout the Covid-19 pandemic largely fell on the distribution of the vaccine itself, perhaps the most important element was how the vaccine is trialed and tested. “While the world came together at record speed to rapidly accelerate R&D of hundreds … Read more

‘Dark, chaotic, scary events’: Australia braces for a ‘horror’ wildfire season

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Already, major blazes have broken out in the state – especially near the coast. Last week, a man was hospitalised and at least two homes destroyed in a fire in Bega Valley; this week, six schools have been pre-emptively closed and extreme fire … Read more

How Benjamin Netanyahu empowered Hamas … and broke Israel

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Mr Netanyahu is a populist and some say it is too much to say he actively propped up Hamas as a pre-planned strategy; rather he found it convenient that there was division in Palestinian politics and allowed it to thrive to Hamas’s benefit. … Read more

Kenya’s transition to sustainable farming could transform fortunes – and alleviate hunger

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE On top of this, the war between Russia and Ukraine thwarted fertiliser supplies. It also prompted countries to impose food export controls. Energy price volatility has also created problems for farmers globally.  In this choppy geopolitical context, some agribusinesses in Kenya are buffering … Read more

Underground colonies of fungi could help us grow stronger, more plentiful food crops

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE If scientists can ensure continuous colonisation of plants by fungi, even where sufficient nutrients are present, by using modern genetic engineering techniques, it could result in substantially less chemical fertiliser being needed, as more will be absorbed after each application. Likewise, researchers are … Read more

Global stroke deaths could reach 9.7 million a year by 2050, scientists warn

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The number of people who die from stroke globally will jump 50 per cent by 2050 unless urgent action is taken to tackle its risk factors, according to a new study. Stroke is the second highest cause of death, the third leading cause … Read more

Official: Recommended ‘CBD’ dose slashed over long term health risks

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The booming Cannabidiol, or “CBD”, market was yesterday brought down to earth when Britain’s food safety watchdog slashed the recommended safety limits for the cannabis-derived food additive. CBD has been classed as a “novel food” additive since January 2019 and is now used … Read more

How Australia’s shameful legacy is still blighting Aboriginal futures

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE But the No campaign, led by the conservative opposition, argues it will create extra bureaucracy, embed “racial privilege” into the constitution, and turn Indigenous people into victims. Another opposition group, ‘progressive No’, say the Voice would be a “powerless” advisory board that does … Read more

Lancet launches major ‘spillover’ investigation as two die of bird flu, including a toddler

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The Lancet commission – which includes 28 experts from every continent – aims to identify and develop risk spillover mitigation policies that are both doable and effective.  “We know, more or less, the biological mechanisms that drive disease transmission,” Prof Dirk Pfeiffer, a … Read more

From rotting legs to ruptured spleens, the ‘air ambulance’ serving Timor-Leste’s only hospital

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Ana’s leg was “black and rotten” by the time the plane swooped in. Months before, the 12-year-old had been playing barefoot in her garden in the west of Timor-Leste when she cut her foot – a slight injury that antiseptic cream and a … Read more

Children among the dead in artillery strike on Myanmar refugee camp

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Australia’s ‘metropolitan elite’ headed for defeat in country’s ‘Brexit moment’

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Lockdown returns to Zimbabwe as health experts try to bring cholera outbreak under control

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In southern Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Africa and Mozambique have all had recent cholera outbreaks.  The World Health Organization previously warned that the risk of large-scale outbreaks is increasing due to climate change, which has made tropical storms that limit access to clean … Read more

The West has forgotten its brush with Monkeypox – yet it remains a deadly foe for Africa

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How STIs reached record levels in ‘sexually-liberal’ Britain

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Today, though, cases of gonorrhoea are now at their highest level since records began in 1918, standing at more than 82,500 cases in 2022. The annual number of cases of syphilis, a disease once thought consigned to history, have meanwhile doubled over the … Read more

Boris Johnson said long Covid was ‘b****cks’ – was he right or wrong?

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Dr Herman has no beef with the BMJ report, welcoming the greater methodological rigour it calls for. “It’s true the definitions have been broad but necessarily so, as it’s a new thing and you needed a wide net initially to catch it all … Read more

Mass outbreak of eye infections closes 56,000 schools in Pakistan

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WHO sets scene for ‘battle royale’ over malaria vaccines

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Afghan poppy cultivation falls by 85pc under Taliban rule, new analysis shows

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Death toll in Bangladesh’s worst-ever dengue outbreak passes 1,000

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South Korea accelerates vaccine production as it shores up defences against future pandemics

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The government then committed to tax breaks for pharma firms in the area of R&D and facilities expansion and to nurture more than 200 vaccine experts annually, with a view to not only secure Korea’s domestic supplies, but also to address global inequalities. … Read more

World’s poorest countries pledge record funding to get child immunisation back on track

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The world’s poorest countries have committed historic levels of funding to childhood immunisation programmes as they seek to recover from the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, new figures show. In 2022, a record $162 million was collectively spent by 57 lower-income countries … Read more

Warning over ‘counterfeit’ drugs that blinded diabetes patients in Pakistan

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Javed Akram, Minister for Specialised Health in Punjab said police were questioning two men they believe to be the drug’s distributors. “A high level committee has been constituted to probe the issue. A case has been registered against the distributor and his aide,” … Read more

Hope for the world’s hungry as Ukraine breaks Russian shipping blockade

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In the months immediately after the invasion, Ukraine’s exports fell by 90 per cent, prompting global wheat prices to spike to record levels in March 2022. Prices have since fallen back significantly but aid agencies say the blockade is still worsening the global food … Read more

From sponge cities to beavers: 17 ways to protect against climate change

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE 13. Rapid warnings Early warning systems are considered a “low-hanging fruit” for climate change adaptations.  They are a relatively low-cost and effective way of protecting people from the hazards of storms, floods, heatwaves and forest fires. These systems can track the paths of … Read more

Lockdown at German refugee centre following measles outbreak

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Nearly 600 asylum seekers at a refugee centre in Berlin have been placed in lockdown following an outbreak of measles. A strict three-week quarantine has been imposed at the site, in the Reinickendorf district of the German capital, following confirmation that two children … Read more

Fears of hidden HIV epidemic in eastern Ukraine as war takes its toll

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE How exactly the invasion has changed the dynamics of Ukraine’s HIV epidemic remains unclear, especially given the lack of data emerging from the occupied territories in the east. But there is no doubt that “war has had a very bad impact on the … Read more

Disease database will replace old Covid dashboard to detect emerging outbreaks

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The public will be able to track outbreaks of respiratory infections such as Covid-19, influenza and RSV after the government launched a new version of its coronavirus dashboard. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) will publish new data every Thursday as a centralised … Read more

Nasal spray to rival EpiPen delayed over efficacy concerns

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE A nasal spray that could save the lives of thousands of people with severe allergies will face further testing due to concerns over its effectiveness. In the UK and countries all around the world, people who suffer with life threatening allergies must carry … Read more

Libya’s catastrophic flooding is turning into a rolling emergency

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE After 12 years of conflict, losing loved ones is a familiar woe. What we could not have imagined is the scale and speed of this disaster. Friends and family, children, and their parents all gone in one instance. And it’s now turning into … Read more

Experts fear mass wipe-out of penguins as Antarctica braces for bird flu

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Although the disease predominantly spreads among birds, it has been shown to infect mammals too, including seals and sea lions. To combat the risk, tourists visiting Antarctica this season may not be able to disembark from cruise ships if the worst-case scenario arises. … Read more

Jenny Harries interview: We’ll behave more like Sweden when the next pandemic hits

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Headline writers were especially taken with Harries’s response to a question thrown at her on the eve of the first national lockdown on how lovers should navigate the coming months. Standing at a lectern next to Matt Hancock (who we can surmise was … Read more

It killed Orwell, Bronte and Keats – yet tuberculosis remains a very modern threat

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE For many in the UK, tuberculosis (TB) belongs in the annals of history. It’s viewed as a disease of the past that killed literary greats such as John Keats, Charlotte Bronte and George Orwell.  In truth, it remains a grim reality for over … Read more

‘We’re swarmed at night’: Peru counts toll of deadly dengue outbreak

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE According to Peru’s Centre for Disease Control, there have been 250,000 confirmed and probable cases of dengue, and 419 deaths in total nationwide. Some 75,000 of those cases and more than a quarter of the deaths have come in Piura, a sweltering city … Read more

Disease-carrying mosquitoes to plague London by mid-century, experts warn

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Holiday hotspots in southern Europe could be even worse hit than the UK, with the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes potentially able to survive year round in southern Spain, Italy and Croatia by the end of the century. Yellow fever mosquitoes have already been found … Read more

‘My world looks like a TV with no signal after infection stole my sight’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE At the time, the only cure available for multidrug resistant TB was a gruelling 24-month course of toxic tablets and painful injections, with a success rate of around 40 per cent. For Zepeda-Teng, side effects included daily vomiting, acute bone aches and “paralysis … Read more

Scientists create AI tongues to ‘taste’ medicine

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Scientists are using artificial intelligence to make medicines taste better, combining years of data to break through one of the biggest obstacles in paediatric care. Poor taste is one of the most significant barriers for children taking medicine, not just in daily life … Read more

War crime investigators prepare case against Russia over food attacks

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Yousuf Syed Khan, a senior lawyer with an international human rights law firm, called Global Rights Compliance, has been working with Ukraine’s prosecutor general to document suspected crimes. He said: “We believe very strongly that through conduct in the offensives that we have … Read more

Why clean water is crucial to tackling the antibiotic resistance crisis

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE While Covid 19 swept across the globe, claiming lives and livelihoods and monopolising media headlines, another health threat has continued to grow. Increased resistance of superbugs to antibiotics and lack of infection control is taking away the peace of mind we have enjoyed … Read more

Inside South Africa’s hijacked buildings

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Walking past the old Presbyterian church in downtown Johannesburg is an assault on the senses. Damp sewage spills out onto the pavement near the building’s wooden doors, which are permanently bolted. Many of its windows are broken, with clothes left to dry within … Read more

India races to contain outbreak of deadly Nipah virus

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Schools and offices have been shut and more than 800 people tracked down as India races to contain an outbreak of Nipah, a virus with “serious epidemic potential” and a fatality rate as high as 75 per cent. Authorities in the southern state … Read more

Victims of Philippines’ war on drugs take fight for justice to the Hague

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Angela, 48, from Quezon City, joined the legal fight after her husband, a jeepney driver, was “brutally murdered”. The mother of three had heard muffled shots on December 7, 2016, the night her construction worker husband died, but did not recognise it was … Read more

The world has experienced its hottest ever three-month period – what comes next?

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Water and food shortages Finding safe and reliable water supplies for drought-stricken communities is already becoming increasingly difficult as a result of soaring temperatures. But as the world heats up, experts fear such an experience will become commonplace. Currently, some 1.1 billion people … Read more

Covid booster jab: Who is eligible for another vaccination this autumn?

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE A new programme of Covid vaccinations has been launched as the UK prepares for an expected rise in infections over the coming winter months. People aged 65 and over, care home residents and health and social care staff are among those eligible to … Read more

US Republicans ‘hold hostage’ HIV programme credited with saving 25 million lives

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Robinson Ogwang, who sits on the board of The Aids Support Organization, a Pepfar partner in Uganda, said that any claims that the programme is linked to abortion are “completely false without evidence”.  “In Uganda, the focus is the attainment of a generation … Read more

The simple medical interventions that could save millions of mothers and babies

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Prof Knight leads MBRRACE-UK, the annual investigation into the deaths of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the year after birth in the UK. Although UK deaths are much lower than in developing world settings, Covid-19 pushed up maternal death rates and some groups … Read more

Female genital mutilation linked to Red Sea slave trade route

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The researchers hypothesise that, over time, female genital mutilation became a marker for virginity or purity, and was subsequently adopted by non-slave populations to increase a woman’s value. “Our paper shows that [the practice] has ancient roots and over time it may have … Read more

Why climate mitigation starts with life-saving vaccines

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE For health, climate mitigation starts with life-saving vaccines. They provide a first line of defence against disease outbreaks, which make emergency situations even worse and put further pressure on health systems when they’re hyper fragile.  When last year’s floods struck during polio’s high … Read more

Top WHO scientist fired after allegations of sexual misconduct

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The verdict comes after a flurry of high-profile WHO dismissals for sexual misconduct, including the head of the agency’s Covid origins delegation to China, and an official preparing to run for election as the Western Pacific’s regional director. Dr Barbesci joined the WHO … Read more

Thousands of children sexually abused to order on encrypted video calls with western customers

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Thousands of children in the Philippines are being sexually abused to order on live-video streams, much of which is being directed by paedophiles in the UK, according to a new report.  The University of Nottingham and the International Justice Mission, a human-rights NGO, … Read more

Bangladesh hospitals at breaking point as dengue crisis intensifies

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Dr Mohammad Shafiul Alam, a scientist working at an infectious diseases unit in Dhaka, added that “everyone knows someone who has caught dengue”. Official figures, he said, do not give a true indication of the size of the outbreak, as they only include … Read more

Measles cases reach three-year high in England

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The UKHSA assessed the risk of a measles epidemic across the UK as low. However, it added that with lower levels of vaccine coverage in London, an outbreak of between 40,000 and 160,000 cases could occur in the capital. The measles vaccine (MMR) … Read more

Blind women are screening patients for breast cancer – is it fake science or serious medicine?

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Indeed, between 2019 and 2021, less than 1 per cent of Indian women underwent breast cancer screening, according to the National Family Health Survey. This means the vast majority of those with the condition won’t be aware of their illness before it’s too … Read more

Is this bacteria the mysterious culprit behind ‘water on the brain’ in Ugandan babies?

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The causes of the condition have been poorly understood – a result of limited technology and high costs – making it impossible to prevent. But this could all change following a crucial discovery. In June, the Lancet Microbe published the results of Dr … Read more

Hundreds of white farmers return to Zimbabwe in boost for agriculture

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Paris issues stay-at-home alerts as French capital is fumigated for disease carrying mosquitoes

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE According to the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC), increasingly frequent heat waves and severe flooding are creating the ideal conditions for tiger mosquitos to thrive.  The invasive species is now established in 13 countries, including all of Italy and Croatia, and parts … Read more

Families with young children suffered more than most from Covid lockdown orders, EU study finds

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‘Self censorship and fear’: backlash lingers for Malaysia’s LGBT community after British band’s kiss

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE While “discriminatory speech against LGBT people is consistently high”, it was even worse ahead of state polls which saw politicians exploiting anti-LGBT sentiment to prove their “conservative, Islamist values”, said Ms Sulathireh.  “One of the points folks were making was: do not give … Read more

Hundreds of thousands of people trafficked into ‘scamdemic’ by south-east Asian gangs, UN warns

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced into online criminality in south-east Asia by a network of brutal gangs, a new report by the United Nations has warned. The investigation by the UN Human Rights Office turns a fresh spotlight on the … Read more

Why Vietnamese children outperform the British at school

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE All this pays off in the classroom. According to research by Dr Singh, Vietnamese children have learned more at school by the age of eight than their counterparts in Peru, India and Ethiopia. The study analysed identical tests taken by pupils in the … Read more

Air pollution is knocking up to eight years off life expectancy in these countries

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE People living in just six countries in Asia and Africa are bearing the brunt of global air pollution, knocking up to eight years off their lives, according to a new report. Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, China, Indonesia and Nigeria account for 75 per cent … Read more

Seoul to subsidise egg-freezing to reverse South Korea’s plummeting birthrate

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The new initiative from Seoul’s government chimes with opinion surveys that show a growing desire among Korean women in the country’s competitive job market to freeze their eggs to have children at a later stage. According to a survey conducted by CHA Fertility … Read more

China’s abrupt dismantling of ‘Zero Covid’ measures caused almost 1.9m deaths, say researchers

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Beijing has previously said that 60,000 people died from early December to mid January, and declared a “decisive victory” over the virus in February. But these figures were widely seen as vast underestimates and global health experts have repeatedly called for the government … Read more

Zimbabwe’s health system hangs in the balance as voters go the polls

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE UK Government figures earlier this year showed Britain issued more than 17,000 health and care-worker visas to Zimbabweans in the 12 months to the end of March. That figure was six times higher than the previous 12 months. Large numbers of visas were … Read more

Trudeau’s Canada has a dark side – its ‘silent genocide’ is proof

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Cases like this are not exceptional – nor as historic. Earlier this year, a Canadian doctor was sanctioned by authorities for removing an indigenous woman’s fallopian tubes without her consent in a standard surgery to relieve abdominal pain – despite objections from other … Read more

Food banks are on the rise across the world – but are they the answer?

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The existence of food banks has also “undercut the rationale for stronger social assistance programmes” from the government, he told the Telegraph, while obfuscating businesses’ role in actually causing food poverty by “paying lousy wages”. He added that not enough questions are being … Read more

‘The outlook could hardly be bleaker’: Zimbabwe on edge as voters prepare to go to the polls

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE One money changer in the Highfield township of the capital, Harare, who also declined to give his name, says: “The ruling party activists use intimidation and they say: ‘If you vote for the opposition we can tell.’ I don’t believe it, but some … Read more

In Rwanda, women with disabilities raped as part of a get rich quick myth

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Hope’s experience is not unique, say local charities. ‘Get-rich’ myths are helping fuel sexual violence against disabled women across Rwanda and beyond. Ariane Dusenge, country coordinator of the Make Way project at the National Union of Disabilities Organisations in Rwanda, estimates 50 per … Read more

New Covid variant under WHO surveillance found in UK for first time

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Prof Oliver Johnson, a mathematician at the University of Bristol, added that “the fact that we’re not sequencing very much these days, and that these are countries that sequence more than most, implies to me that this is more widespread”.  But he told … Read more

US urged to tackle lawless ‘Golden Triangle’ home to tiger breeding, crypto scams and prostitution

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In 2018, the US Treasury Department slapped sanctions on the Kings Romans casino empire that dominates the area, accusing it of being linked to a network involved in “horrendous illicit activities” including drug, human and wildlife trafficking and child prostitution. At the time, … Read more

Climate change is happening – Africa must adapt to it to survive

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In preparation for next month’s Africa Climate Week and the global climate summit (COP28) in November, government leaders can rally behind a common priority: adaptation to safeguard food systems that feed more than a billion people on the continent.  Cassava, for example, and … Read more

Fresh hope in fight against cholera as scientists develop capsule vaccine

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Scientists are creating a cholera vaccine in capsule form that aims to transform global immunisation programmes against the water-borne disease and save countless lives. The World Health Organisation estimates there are 1.3 to 4 million cases of the acute diarrhoeal disease each year, … Read more

One in five men worldwide infected with potentially cancerous HPV, says study

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE After a systematic review which pooled data from more than 44,000 men across 65 previous studies, researchers estimated that one in three men globally are infected with genital HPV, while one in five had a “high risk”, potentially cancerous form. Infection rates overall … Read more

‘It is like a concentration camp’: Life inside the forgotten crisis on Europe’s edge

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Britain underprepared for chemical and biological attacks, experts say

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE A lone wolf killed five people and infected 17 in the United States in 2001 after letters containing anthrax were sent to several news media offices and to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy.  Perhaps Britain’s best known attack was that in Salisbury … Read more

Covid-like viruses in Vietnam bats highlights spillover risk

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Almost 20 viruses related to Sars-Cov-2 have been found in bats in Vietnam, heightening concerns that Southeast Asia is a hotspot for new pathogens to jump to people. In a preprint which has not yet been peer-reviewed, scientists found 17 sarbecovirus species – … Read more

The world must not forget about Afghanistan’s crisis – time is running out

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE When I last visited in the winter of 2021, I met a woman whose children would sometimes have to go three to four days without food. Without meaningful action from the international community, Afghanistan’s hunger crisis will only get worse. Our colleagues report … Read more

‘The Taliban sends me daily death threats – I fear for women who couldn’t escape’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Mrs Ghafari said her former team in Afghanistan has been replaced with men, some of whom are connected to the Taliban. She added that she regularly speaks to former colleagues and friends still in Afghanistan, who report that torture and imprisonment of women … Read more

Why South Korea’s cosmetic surgery empire is both a source of pride and pain

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In 2021, Prof Reddy-Best and her colleague Eunji Choi published a paper on beauty ideals in South Korean fashion media which critically examined imagery in CeCi, a former Korean monthly magazine. They found that typically Caucasian aesthetics such as double eyelids and lighter … Read more

Unsafe cars are being sold in poorer countries – here’s how manufacturers get away with it

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The problem is exacerbated by the export of older, poor quality cars from Europe, Japan and the US to developing countries, more than half of them in Africa.  Alejandro Furas hopes that NCAP’s work can stop car buyers in developing countries being deceived … Read more

Why Pakistan still struggles to overcome its stigma around disability

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In Pakistan, some 14.3 million people live with a disability. Right from birth, these individuals are often isolated and othered, unable to claim rights to the same resources as their able-bodied peers. In a country where accessibility is rare and acceptance even rarer, … Read more

UK aid money spent on training football referees and coaches across China

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‘It’s only getting worse’: A rise in teenage suicides haunts Colombia’s indigenous people

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Local authorities are warning that suicide has become a public health crisis. “More needs to be done because we’ve lost control,” says Dayra Góngora, an indigenous community leader in Mitú. Alcohol is usually involved in many of cases of suicide in Vaupés, but … Read more

At least 40 per cent of Pakistan children have stunted growth a year after devastating floods

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE According to a small survey by Islamic Relief, 40 per cent of children were stunted and 25 per cent classified as underweight, while nearly 80 per cent of mothers said their children have been sick during outbreaks of diseases including diarrhoea, malaria and … Read more

WHO issues yet another health alert over tainted cough syrups made in India

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE A senior official at Fourrts denied the company had made the drug, saying the process had been subcontracted. “The drug in question, Cold Out, has not been manufactured by us. We subcontracted its manufacturing to Sharun Pharmaceuticals Private Ltd and later exported to … Read more

Thousands of decomposing corpses on Khartoum’s streets lead to outbreak fears

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Women and children targeted in Haiti kidnap crisis as former French colony faces societal breakdown

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Inside Porton Down: the new unit set up to fight the next pandemic

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The team is working to create tests or “assays” for a range of arenaviruses for use in diagnosis, contact tracing and vaccine design in future outbreaks. In a level three laboratory, we watched as scientists scan samples of XBB166, a new Covid-19 variant … Read more

Niger’s military coup casts doubt on EU migration scheme, warn analysts

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Karim Manuel, Middle East and Africa analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit, said: “Niger is the West’s most important security partner in the Sahel region and Europe relies on this strong relationship to keep migration routes through Niger closed since 2015. “The coup … Read more

Why are leprosy cases surging in the US?

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Leprosy is thought of as a disease of the past – and it is relatively straightforward to cure – but it is also a disease that can be carried by animals. This may help explain why new cases have been appearing in Florida … Read more

Niger unrest is the latest democratic domino to fall in a growing ‘coup belt’ of African nations

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Russian troops ‘tortured half of prisoners detained in Kherson’, say war crime investigators

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “I would be surprised if after examining the war crimes and crimes against humanity, that the genocidal intent of many soldiers in occupied territories is not established,” he told The Telegraph. “At the very least, the pattern that we are observing is consistent … Read more

How surging ‘breakbone fever’ threatens mothers and their unborn babies

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE More infections, more complications Dengue, also known as “breakbone fever” because intense muscle pain is one of the symptoms, is a mosquito-borne virus common across much of Asia, Latin America and Africa. In the 1970s it was endemic in just nine countries. Now, … Read more

How Captagon resurrected war-torn Syria as a narco-state

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Although the exact size of the trade has since been disputed, there is no doubt that it is a lucrative drug business – the sort of which has long flourished in and around Syria, from the “French Connection” heroin network of the 1940s, … Read more

How Japan is tackling ‘hikikomori’ – a syndrome that created a generation of recluses

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School children bear the brunt of the global hunger crisis – the hungry struggle to learn

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE School-age children are among the least visible victims of the setbacks in nutrition now playing out across many of the world’s poorest countries. That’s partly because UN agencies focus their monitoring activities on the under-5 age group and the crucial ‘first 1000 days’.  … Read more

Fake British cough syrup linked to Cameroon child deaths was made in India, officials say

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The revelations come at a time of great scrutiny for India’s pharmaceutical sector. Last month, the country recalled its typhoid vaccine from global markets due to concerns over quality. Before that, the deaths of nearly 70 children in the Gambia were linked to … Read more

Bird flu kills two cats in South Korea as experts probe the deaths of 36 others

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Bird flu has killed two cats at a shelter in South Korea, with investigations underway to confirm whether another 36 with the same symptoms also died from the virus.  The outbreak in the private Seoul facility, which has been placed in quarantine, comes … Read more

The drug smugglers keeping HIV patients alive in South Africa

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE It’s estimated there were at least 2.9 million immigrants residing in South Africa in 2020, but rising unemployment challenges and the impacts of natural disasters across the continent have likely further increased this number. The Malawi High Commission in South Africa estimates there … Read more

Why India’s rice export ban could exacerbate acute food insecurity

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “Asia really is the global rice bowl, it’s central when it comes to rice-based food security,” said Nese Sreenivasulu, an expert at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines. “If we are not able to manage both productivity and quality in … Read more

Iran’s ‘morality police’ use CCTV to target one million women for not wearing headscarves

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A man hospitalized with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in Abu Dhabi

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I’m running out of days for a miracle cure – but existing drugs could give me more time with my family

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Famines, Ebola and killer celery: global health bids farewell to the sector’s answer to Tom Cruise

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Russia claims that there were explosives on a cargo ship collecting grain from Ukraine

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Dozens of children have been killed in 100 days of war in Sudan

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Australia is on the verge of HIV eradication after a dramatic drop in infections in Sydney

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Leading British scientists are calling for the closure of mink farms worldwide over pandemic concerns

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“Attack on the world’s poorest”: missile barrage on Ukrainian ports raises wheat prices

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Anne Garella, Ukrainian operations director of the humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger, said: “Ukraine is the world’s breadbasket. In the medium to long term, we could witness major increases in the prices of food raw materials. “If the suspension of the agreement persists, … Read more

Fake British company caught selling toxic cough syrup in Cameroon

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History threatens to repeat itself as the horrors of the Darfur genocide resurface in Sudan

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Bats: Man’s New Best Friend or Deadly Enemy?

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‘Major moment’ as first trial of drug for Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever begins

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As extreme heat and forest fires hit Europe, experts turn to Bangladesh for climate change advice

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Is this medieval disease making an unwelcome return to Zimbabwe?

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An outbreak of bird flu in cats shows the virus can now infect large numbers of mammals, the WHO confirms

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A ‘game-changing’ vaccine that could wipe out meningitis across Africa

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Eleven children die every week trying to cross the Mediterranean, according to new UN figures

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Aspartame is safe to consume, but the sweetener has been added to the WHO’s list of “possible carcinogens”.

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The World Health Organization (WHO) has assured Diet Coke drinkers that the drink is safe to consume, despite the sweetener used in it being labeled a “possible carcinogen”. The World Health Organization has added aspartame, which is found in thousands of everyday products, … Read more