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At least 3 soldiers from Akhmat Battalion, a unit better known for its staged combat videos than battlefield achievements, have fallen sick with hantavirus, a rodent-borne disease known as “mouse fever” www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social @telglobalhealth.bsky.social

Outbreaks of debilitating tropical diseases becoming Europe’s ‘new normal’ Mosquito-borne diseases like chikungunya were once confined to the tropics but climate change is allowing them to spread in Europe

Outbreaks of debilitating tropical diseases becoming Europe’s ‘new normal’, @ecdc.europa.eu‬ has warned

Mosquito-borne diseases like chikungunya were once confined to the tropics but climate change is allowing them to spread in Europe

Link here🔗
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Inside the Red Zone: Sierra Leone’s terrifying mpox outbreak More than 5,000 have tested positive – including children – and at least 47 have died in Africa’s worst outbreak of the disease

A sobering account from Sierra Leone – and a clear warning that mpox should not be underestimated

Important report by @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social, with photographs from @simontownsley.bsky.social for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Inside the Red Zone: Sierra Leone’s terrifying mpox outbreak More than 5,000 have tested positive – including children – and at least 47 have died in Africa’s worst outbreak of the disease

Dispatch by @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social and @simontownsley.bsky.social

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I keep thinking about the poignant, devastating conclusion of
@arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social's latest piece on mpox in Sierra Leone.

Make sure to read the full piece, with photos by @simontownsley.bsky.social for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

‘Man-eating’ screw worm turns hospital into horror show A long-forgotten parasite has made a comeback and is reasserting its dominance in Honduras

Properly gruesome dispatch from @parrytom.bsky.social and @simontownsley.bsky.social on the horrific screw worm resurgence in Central America
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Could the answer to the male fertility crisis be lurking in your cat’s litter tray? Discovery that the world’s most successful parasite can ‘decapitate’ sperm offers a new path to understanding rising infertility among men

It turns out the world’s most successful parasite can ‘decapitate’ sperm. For @telglobalhealth.bsky.social I wrote about the implications of this discovery for our understanding of the male infertility crisis. With thanks to @zahadyv.bsky.social and Bill Sullivan
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Atomic bombs destroyed their lives – now they want Russia to pay Amid calls to restart nuclear testing, families are still suffering from mutations passed down through the generations

Spent a week in Kazakhstan with @simontownsley.bsky.social meeting victims of Soviet nuclear testing. Mutations are being passed from one generation to the next in an ongoing health crisis.
Dispatch for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
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‘I saw many die with my own eyes’: Survivors describe an unfolding genocide in Darfur As Sudan's civil war spirals, refugees recall witnessing pogroms, mass killings and barbarism

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Flagship Gavi vaccine projects face axe if US funding stops, CEO warns Exclusive: The decision to end funding for the partnership could have ramifications felt well beyond its frontline vaccine programmes

Flagship Gavi vaccine projects face axe if US funding stops, CEO warns.

Exclusive: The decision to end funding for the partnership could have ramifications felt well beyond its frontline vaccine programmes.

@arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social reports.
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"We wanted to see Hayes electrical substation which is famous not just in Europe, but in the whole world"

And now the White House has killed the Corporate Transparency Act, which was itself a tiny first step in the marathon journey of stopping US companies from being the most egregiously opaque shell structures on the planet. God, this is grim.

Children reduced to skin and bones in war-torn Sudan’s forgotten famine Every scrap of food counts for the millions on the brink of starvation in the remote Nuba mountains

I travelled to Sudan's remote Nuba mountains with @simontownsley.bsky.social

We found that millions are already on the brink of starvation, but the worst of the famine is yet to come.

First in a series of dispatches for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social

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🚨 Ohio reports its first probable human case of influenza A(H5).

An adult male farm worker, exposed to deceased poultry—but no details on clinical status or virus sequencing.

With bird flu spreading, this is a terrible time to defund public health and halt research.
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A trial at Oxford is just one of the dozens across the world grinding to a halt after the USAID funding freeze.

The study is testing a cutting-edge malaria vaccine - the RH5.2-VLP - for the first time.

At least 40 people had been injected with the new jab before the freeze, it is understood.

"Around 90 percent of the SS who worked at Auschwitz during the war escaped all forms of prosecution."

—Laurence Rees, author of 'Auschwitz: A New History,' in a 2005 interview

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MoD reinforces measures to prevent leaks in online gaming In the wake of repeated incidents involving the sharing of classified military information on the War Thunder game forums, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed its commitment to preventing such leaks.

In the wake of repeated incidents involving the sharing of classified military information on the War Thunder game forums, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed its commitment to preventing such leaks.
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Fire weather: How extreme wildfires became the rule – not the exception Unusually intense fires have struck across the world almost every year for the last decade

Excellent reporting here on the proliferation of wildfires and the increasing danger they pose.

Thanks for the help and inspiration
@johnvaillant.bsky.social

Fire weather: How extreme wildfires became the rule – not the exception

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Large fires in urban areas are de facto CBRN/Hazmat incidents because of the materials involved in the fires.

Tried to get to the bottom of how unusual this year’s annual winter illness season really is. The short answer is that it’s not - for the most part!

Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls

US reports first human H5N1 death The man had underlying health conditions and is believed to have caught the virus directly from birds

The Louisiana man who caught H5N1 has now died, health authorities have confirmed
@maevecullinan.bsky.social for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social

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The fight to rid Pakistan’s coal pits of diseases that plagued British miners a century ago Ultra-portable, AI driven x-rays have been used to find undiagnosed TB, as miners inhaling soot in Victorian-era conditions are at high risk

Extraordinary dispatch from @sneweyy.bsky.social on the Dickensian conditions in Pakistan’s coal mines and brick kilns

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Rats, pigeons and water buffaloes massacred in world’s largest animal sacrifice At least 200,000 animals were sacrificed at Gadhimai, dubbed the ‘world’s bloodiest festival’

Rats, pigeons and water buffaloes massacred in world’s largest animal sacrifice.

At least 200,000 animals were sacrificed at Gadhimai, dubbed the ‘world’s bloodiest festival.’

✍️ Gaurav Pokharel and @sneweyy.bsky.social report.
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Into the unknown: Crack WHO team journeys deep into the Congo to identify mystery killer Their urgent mission is to find out what is killing swathes of people in one of the most remote parts of the world

Into the unknown: Crack WHO team journeys deep into the Congo to identify mystery killer.

Their urgent mission is to find out what is killing swathes of people in one of the most remote parts of the world.

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UK may be unable to produce enough vaccines in next pandemic, government told Britain is falling behind other countries that are better prepared for future threats, Baroness Brown has warned

(1/2) UK may be unable to produce enough vaccines in next pandemic, government told.

Britain is falling behind other countries that are better prepared for future threats, Baroness Brown has warned.

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UK buys 5 million bird flu vaccine shots to prepare for H5N1 pandemic The jabs are being stockpiled in case avian flu begins to spread between humans

The UK has begun stockpiling bird flu vaccines to prepare for a possible H5N1 pandemic
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