Tag: Outbreak

Is Britain at risk of its own bed bug plague? Freakish outbreak ravaging Paris sparks crisis meetings after official warns ‘no-one is safe’

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Britain may be hit by its own bed bug plague similar to the crisis ravaging France, experts have suggested.

The tiny blood-suckers have been caught crawling on train seats and inside Paris’s bustling Charles-de-Gaulle Airport in recent weeks. 

Travellers have even complained about infestations of the annoying, 5mm critters inside Airbnbs, hotels, cinemas and restaurants.

Paris’s deputy mayor has claimed ‘no-one is safe’ and demanded urgent action to tackle the ‘scourge’ of bed bugs ahead of the 2024 Olympics.

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Urgent warning to parents over mysterious E. coli outbreak that has killed one Brit and hospitalised six – as health chiefs say it is predominantly striking kids

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One Brit has died in a mysterious E. coli outbreak that is predominantly affecting children, MailOnline understands.

Another six have been hospitalised by an exceptionally rare strain of the diarrhoea-causing bug. 

Health officials are scrambling to find the source of the outbreak, which is thought to have emerged towards the end of May. Investigations are ongoing.

Patients reported eating grated hard cheese before being sickened, it was claimed. Others mentioned having strawberries, cucumbers, peppers and watermelon.

But officials insist there

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Scientists at Porton Down super-lab are preparing for bird flu to jump to humans – as secretive site is ‘getting the tools ready’ for an outbreak of deadly H5N1 bird flu

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UK scientists working at a state-of-the-art lab are preparing for bird flu to spread to people.

Health chiefs today unveiled a top-secret super lab within Porton Down that aims to boost pandemic preparedness and create a vaccine within 100 days of a new virus taking off. 

Top scientists at the site confirmed they are readying the tools that would be needed if the H5N1 bird flu strain — which is behind an outbreak sweeping the world — took off in

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MARKET REPORT: Summer flu outbreak and easing of Covid curbs in China boost sales at painkiller seller Haleon

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Haleon shrugged off the cost of living crisis yesterday as the painkiller seller reaped the rewards of a flu outbreak at the start of the summer.

It said its annual sales would now be better than previously hoped thanks to shoppers swallowing 7.5 per cent price increases and sticking with the Sensodyne and Panadol maker.

Sales were helped by the easing of Covid curbs in China, which boosted demand for its medications, while a flu outbreak this spring saw consumers

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Decoding the data of the Chinese mpox outbreak

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Sounds quite bad, right? 

It turns out the reality is a tad more complicated. On the WHO website, the recent mpox data listed under China is the sum of cases reported in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. 

The lack of data separation is significant here for a few reasons. First, while case counts have indeed risen in China, we don’t know by how much and over what time frame. China reported 106 cases in June alone, and it’s safe to

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China sequenced Covid days before world even knew of deadly outbreak | Science | News

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Beijing has been accused of “endless cover-ups” around Covid by a scientist who claimed that China sequenced the virus’ genome five days before the world knew of the outbreak.

The comments were made by virologist Professor Edward Holmes of the University of Sydney to colleagues in a private channel in the messaging software Slack in March 2020.

The channel was set up in February to discuss the writing of a Nature Medicine paper, ultimately published on March 17, 2020.

The

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16 People Sick in Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Ground Beef

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A salmonella outbreak linked to lean ground beef sold in ShopRite stores in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York has left 16 people sick, including six who were hospitalized, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Ground beef that was labeled 80 percent lean was the only common food that the people who became ill in the outbreak reported eating. Investigators are working to identify the source of the ground beef, the agency said in a release. One

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Salmonella outbreak linked to ground beef in Northeast sickens 16, hospitalizes 6

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An outbreak of Salmonella linked to ground beef has sickened 16 people in the Northeast and hospitalized six others, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

The agency said nine people who had taken ill were from New Jersey, with others in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Investigators are working to identify the source of the ground beef, and all of those who remembered the type of ground beef they ate and where they bought it reported

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Meet Dennis Oya, Patient Zero of the TB Outbreak Sweeping Washington’s Prisons

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GP crisis blamed for exacerbating Strep A outbreak in Britain

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Parents struggling to get GP appointments could be fuelling Britain’s unusually bad Strep A outbreak, according to one expert. 

Sixteen kids have already died this winter from a deadly complication of the usually-harmless bug. Although low, health chiefs say the toll is higher than expected.

Officials have blamed lockdown restrictions for interrupting the spread of Strep A bacteria and other viruses, leaving more children susceptible to catching it and becoming more poorly. 

But Professor Tony Brookes, a health data expert

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