Pandemic

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The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) have called for sustained financing for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. This is to enable countries to respond quickly to future health emergencies. The call was made at a high-level side event at…

At UNGA, Burundi and Guyana joined PAHO and Africa CDC to advance country-led cooperation and financing for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response Addis Ababa, New York, 22 September 2026 (PAHO/WHO, Africa CDC) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC),…

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Almost 900 people in Bangladesh are suspected to have died in a measles outbreak that began in March. Most of those affected are children. Measles is one of the most infectious diseases known. It can spread rapidly when vaccination rates fall, and the Bangladesh outbreak shows how quickly years of…

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Americans are drinking less for the first time since the pandemic, but alcohol use remains higher than it was before 2020, according to a study published Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. The decline in drinking rates, though modest at roughly 1%, is welcome news after heavy alcohol…

— Think twice before presenting political views to a patient or letting those views impact care by Alan B. Schorr, DO September 20, 2026 • 3 min read Physician-initiated activism has surged in recent years. The pandemic only exacerbated the trend. Have we crossed a boundary? Has medical education forgotten…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Member States have advanced negotiations on a proposed pathogen access and benefit-sharing system aimed at supporting faster, more equitable responses to future pandemics. The organisation said this in a statement following the eighth meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the WHO Pandemic Agreement, which…

For nine years following its 2017 Frankfurt listing, NAGA stood as a Silicon Valley parallel for European retail fintech: technologically inventive, product-rich and chronically incapable of turning a profit. Even as retail trading volumes exploded during the pandemic, the trading platform’s ledger continued to bleed red ink, leading to €37…