Pregnant women were today urged to get vaccinated against whooping cough amid a worrying surge in cases that has already killed five babies.
As a few as a quarter of expectant mothers have had the pertussis jab – offered between 16 and 32 weeks — in parts of London.
Similarly low levels are seen in other parts of the capital and Birmingham.
Experts today warned the outbreak could be the biggest ‘of the last 40 years’.
Almost 3,000 cases have
Over the last couple of decades, rapid diagnostic tests have emerged as a vital tool in the global fight to control malaria. The relatively inexpensive test strips have diagnosed millions of cases in just minutes, hastening access to lifesaving treatment. They’ve also drastically improved surveillance in harder-to-reach rural areas, sharpening public health experts’ view of the toll of this mosquito-borne disease that kills around half a million people globally each year.
But this progress could be undermined by the malaria-causing
Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, buttressing a dozen major glaciers and slowing their flow into the ocean, may be surprisingly sensitive to warming.
Several thousand years ago, the Ross Ice Shelf and the glaciers feeding it thinned dramatically, causing sea level to rise. A new study, published April 23 in Nature Communications, suggests this was triggered by a rearrangement of ocean currents set off by a minor amount of ocean warming — just half a degree Celsius.
David Roth, President of the Cecelia Packing, in front of a new orange crop after the Central Valley region’s catastrophic water shortages.Renée C. Byer/ZUMA
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Groundwater supplies are dwindling in aquifers around the world, a groundbreaking new study found, with the rates of decline accelerating over the past four decades in nearly a third of aquifers studied.
Many agricultural centers
Details zu einer neuen Form von DDOS, die relativ wenig Ressourcen benötigt, um einen Angriff von beispiellosem Ausmaß zu starten, was sie zu einer klaren Gefahr für Websites macht, da Serversoftware-Unternehmen darum kämpfen, Patches zum Schutz davor zu veröffentlichen.
Die Sicherheitslücke nutzt die Netzwerkprotokolle HTTP/2 und HTTP/3 aus, die mehrere Datenströme von und zu einem Server und einem Browser ermöglichen.
Das bedeutet, dass der Browser mehrere Ressourcen von einem Server anfordern und alle zurückgeben kann, anstatt darauf warten zu
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In a surprising development, President Biden’s son Hunter entered a not-guilty plea Wednesday after his plea deal unraveled.
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) doubled down on his claims on Tuesday that the Republican-controlled chamber is moving closer toward an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden. The Speaker says the inquiry would surround allegations that he accepted
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Apple hat in letzter Zeit unzählige Sicherheitsbedrohungen erlebt, daher ist es nur sinnvoll, wenn sie die Sicherheitsfunktionen für ihre Geräte aktualisieren möchten. Das Unternehmen hat gerade angekündigt, dass es seine allererste Rapid Security Response herausgeben wird, was eine schnellere Lösung ist als ein vollständiges Software-Update.
Apple führt regelmäßig Software-Updates für seine Geräte durch, und diese Updates führen in der Regel Sicherheitskorrekturen durch und beinhalten auch einige spezielle Funktionen wie neue Emojis, aktualisierte App-Designs und mehr. Das Rapid Security Response-Update unterscheidet
