Video: Amputee doctor in Gaza carries on hospital work despite injury
Dr. Khaled al-Saedni works at a hospital in Gaza and tells how he cares for patients after losing a leg. ...
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What We Know About HMPV, the Virus Spreading in China
Reports of a surge in cases of a respiratory virus in China have evoked dark echoes of the start of ...
US reports first death linked to bird flu in Louisiana
The late patient had been hospitalised in December with severe respiratory symptoms after contact with infected birds.The United States has ...
Video: UN team witnesses the devastation of north Gaza
NewsFeedHumanitarian teams from the United Nations and the World Health Organisation have arrived in northern Gaza. They say hospitals are ...
Norovirus is spiking in the US: What do we need to know?
Norovirus is spiking across the United States this winter. Also referred to as the “winter vomiting bug”, norovirus is a ...
Calls for Israel to release director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital
NewsFeedIsrael’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital has been condemned amid calls for Israel to release director Hussam Abu Safia, whose ...
How concerned are Israelis by what their government is doing in their name?
Israeli soldiers have stormed, raided and burned down Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, forcing everyone inside to evacuate and ...
‘This horror must end’: WHO condemns Israeli assault on key Gaza hospital
The World Health Organization has condemned Israel’s storming of a vital hospital in northern Gaza, saying assaults on medical facilities ...
Could mosquitoes deliver vaccines against malaria?
Mosquitoes are usually associated with serious diseases, such as malaria, dengue fever and yellow fever. However, researchers from Leiden University ...
‘Trapped inside’: The children suffocating in the smog of Lahore
Lahore, Pakistan – Fourteen-year-old Fatima has woken up coughing, with a fever, on a Monday morning in early November. “My ...
Mysterious disease in DRC is severe malaria, health authorities say
Health authorities said the disease presents in the form of a respiratory illness.A previously unknown disease making the rounds in ...
Video: Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital attacked during Al Jazeera interview
NewsFeedAl Jazeera journalist Moath al-Kahlout was reporting on humanitarian aid being delivered to the barely-function Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern ...
Polio is a deadly disease with a vaccine that RFK Jr.’s adviser wants to ban. Here’s how the immunization works
The polio vaccine has all but obliterated the illness that once killed thousands and paralyzed 15,000 people nationwide every year. ...
WHO says mpox remains public health emergency of international concern
UN health agency says its decision is ‘based on the rising number and continuing geographic spread of cases’.The World Health ...
Africa CDC warns mpox is not under control, appeals for resources
African Union health watchdog’s chief has said mpox outbreak is ‘still on the upward trend generally’ as cases spread.The African ...
Chikungunya surge in Pakistan: What we know about the mosquito-borne virus
Hospitals in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, are brimming with chikungunya virus patients. Major government hospitals throughout the city are reporting ...
‘Historic’: Egypt declared malaria free by the World Health Organization
Forty-four countries have been declared malaria free, but there were still 249 million cases in 2022.Egypt has been certified as ...
COVID, mpox, cholera: Is the world prepared for another pandemic?
Some 4.5 billion people worldwide are currently without adequate access to essential healthcare services, according to the World Health Organization ...
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