Kategori: World Health Organisation
‘Life saver’ chickenpox vaccine to be offered to children in England for free
The plan could save parents and children from taking time off sick (Picture: Getty Images)
Children will be offered a chickenpox vaccine for free on the NHS from next year.
Around half a million children each year could be given the free …
Chikungunya cases double in UK as expert warns ‘all it takes is one mosquito bite’
People should be very wary,’ an expert said.
Chikungunya virus: How bad is the China outbreak and could it spread to the UK?
A sanitation worker sprays insecticide to prevent the spread of Chikungunya in Dongguan, Guangdong Province of China (Picture: Getty)
Soldiers in protective equipment spraying plumes of disinfectant into the air. Drones roaring overhead. Q…
Which countries have rabies? How to avoid disease after woman dies following Morocco holiday
Yvonne Ford, 59, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, had what has been described as ‘light contact’ with the stray dog on her trip to the North African country in February.
US warned to prepare as bird flu ‘absolutely could be the next pandemic’
The US should worry about the avian flu ‘because it could be another pandemic’, an infectious diseases expert said.
Is ‘mammothpox’ real after WHO tests pandemic response with ancient mammal virus
A new pandemic ‘could happen in 20 years or more, or it could happen tomorrow’.