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Top StoriesEurope to Consider “dose-Sparing” to Increase Monkeypox Vaccine, WHO Seeks Trials
UK Issues New ‘extreme Heat’ Warning for England and Wales
Date: August 9, 2022
By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s weather service on Tuesday issued an amber “Extreme Heat” warning for parts of England and Wales, with no respite in sight from hot dry conditions that have sparked fires, broken temperature records and strained the nation’s infrastructure. The amber warning — the second-most severe after red — will be...
Climate Change Puts Lyme Disease in Focus for France’s Valneva After Covid Blow
Date: August 8, 2022
By Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) – With climate change spurring more cases of tick-borne Lyme disease, drugmaker Valneva is betting big on a vaccine as it looks beyond disappointing sales of its COVID shot. Although Valneva secured European Union and British regulatory approval, both walked away from contracts worth more than a billion dollars combined,...
Why Some Heatwaves Prove Deadlier Than Others
Date: August 2, 2022
By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s record-breaking heatwave last month saw England and Wales register https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending22july2022 nearly 1,700 extra deaths in just one week, early data shows, while Portugal and Spain counted another 1,700. The figures, which will likely change as records are updated, give the first indication of heat-related deaths when temperatures from...
India Confirms Asia’s First Monkeypox Death
Date: August 2, 2022
By Jose Devasia and Chris Thomas KOCHI, India (Reuters) – India confirmed its first monkeypox death on Monday, a young man in the southern state of Kerala, in what is only the fourth known fatality from the disease in the current outbreak. Last week, Spain reported two monkeypox-related deaths and Brazil its first. The death...
‘Living With Covid’: Where the Pandemic Could Go Next
Date: August 1, 2022
By Jennifer Rigby and Julie Steenhuysen LONDON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – As the third winter of the coronavirus pandemic looms in the northern hemisphere, scientists are warning weary governments and populations alike to brace for more waves of COVID-19. In the United States alone, there could be up to a million infections a day this winter, Chris...
Inside the Super-Secure Swiss Lab Trying to Stop the Next Pandemic
Date: August 1, 2022
By Jennifer Rigby SPIEZ, Switzerland (Reuters) -The setting is straight from a spy thriller: Crystal waters below, snow-capped Swiss Alps above and in between, a super-secure facility researching the world’s deadliest pathogens. Spiez Laboratory, known for its detective work on chemical, biological and nuclear threats since World War Two, was tasked last year by the...