Fears of an impending measles resurgence today sparked a national ‘call to action’ by health chiefs who are alarmed over vaccination rates slumping to a 10-year low.
As few as half of children have had both measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jabs in parts of London.
Similarly low levels are also seen in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham.
Dame Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UKHSA, begged parents to check their child’s immunisation status, warning that the public had ‘forgotten what
Stuart May is living every husband’s worst nightmare.
As the 35-year-old decorates the family home for Christmas, he faces the heartbreaking prospect of driving his bed-ridden wife 800 miles to Switzerland to end her ‘torture’.
For mother-of-four Kelly Louise has spent the last 18 months battling a long Covid ‘death sentence’ that has left her ‘imprisoned’ in a dark room in constant agony and unable to care for her children.
Mrs Smith-May’s condition gradually deteriorated after she caught Covid in
The next pandemic could spark from a disease with a 40 percent mortality rate within just two decades, top virologists say — warning Covid could have been just the tip of the pandemic iceberg.
DailyMail.com spoke to three virus experts who agreed a respiratory virus — spread via droplets from coughs and sneezes — was most likely to trigger the next fast-spreading disease that causes a global shutdown.
They said the infamous ‘disease X’ would most likely appear after a
For most people, getting the flu means a few days of sickness and then a return to regular life. But for Kristin Fox, a 42-year-old mother and high-school principal in Ohio, the virus led to the loss of her arms and legs — and the start of a long, challenging journey to a new normal.
Fox’s ordeal began in March 2020, just a few days before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world.
She came down with a sore
It’s well known that eating nutritious foods, exercising, and getting enough sleep can all boost long-term health.
However, doctors have revealed the surprising habits they avoid, from cutting alcohol and nixing garlic to never sitting on the back of a motorcycle or running to the bathroom too often.
While health claims around alcohol have been notoriously murky, research has gradually shown that cutting down on it could have long-lasting benefits, including better sleep, healthier skin, and a slimmer waistline. Experts
Chickens genetically modified to be impervious to bird flu may one day prevent the spread of the disease on farms, a study suggests.
Just small tweaks to a single gene made chickens resistant to an avian influenza infection, researchers report October 10 in Nature Communications.
The gene, known as ANP32A, provides the instructions that tell chicken cells how to make a protein that flu viruses rely on to successfully hijack cells. Disrupting the avian virus’s ability to commandeer
The decision to accelerate the autumn Covid and flu vaccine rollouts increased anxiety over the virus, experts warned today.
Officials launched the programmes, which will see 30million offered a flu jab and 25million invited for a Covid vaccine, in September — a month earlier than planned, citing fears the Pirola variant would overwhelm the NHS.
But scientists told MailOnline that the ‘flip-flopping’ approach towards the start date created mistrust and ‘inevitably increased some people’s anxiety’.
Others also warned the rollout’s
We spend a lot on over-the-counter cold and flu remedies — more than £250 million a year in the UK alone — to tackle the misery of blocked noses, tickly coughs and sore throats.
But could we be wasting our money?
A ruling earlier this month by a panel of special advisers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — which oversees the use of medicines in the U.S. — has sent shockwaves through the multi-million-pound cold and flu product
President Biden removes his face mask during a Medal of Honor ceremony today – an act that appeared to exemplify Americans’ fatigue with masks
Jill Biden tested positive for Covid for a second time Monday, prompting multiple rounds of tests on President Joe Biden, who continues to result negative.
As a precaution, the president, 80, wore a face mask for the first time in months as he went about his duties at the White House today.
However, he took it
Pirola, the new Covid variant dubbed the ‘real deal’ by experts, may not be as dangerous as initially feared, new data suggests.
Early results from a US lab found those who had previously been infected with Covid or had a jab had a similar level of immunity to other fellow Omicron Covid variants.
While this won’t stop people from catching the virus, it suggests the UK’s wall of immunity should still help prevent many people from becoming severely ill.
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