CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — One of the hard lessons the World Health Organization learned during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was this: Other diseases can be forgotten and take a deadlier toll.The WHO is now warning that the battle against malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, where it already kills hundreds of thousands of…
The World Health Organization is warning that the battle against malaria in sub-Saharan Africa could be set back by 20 years as countries focus energy and resources on containing the coronavirusBy GERALD IMRAY Associated PressApril 24, 2020, 11:46 AM3 min readCAPE TOWN, South Africa -- One of the hard lessons the World Health Organization learned…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the number of deaths caused by malaria in sub-Saharan Africa could double to 769,000, as efforts to tackle the disease face disruptions by the coronavirus pandemic. As of Thursday, the region had registered more than 26,000 cases of COVID-19, the highly infectious respiratory disease caused by the…
state health officials have been pondering in recent weeks. Officials say their idea is to procure the medicine for 200,000 coronavirus patients and distribute it to drug stores across the state, where it would be available at no cost to people with a prescription certifying their COVID-19 diagnosis. Health experts consulted by the state discouraged…
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U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…