A laboratory worker who researched plague in Siberia has died of an “unknown infection.” According to reports, it may be pneumonic plague, which can spread between people but requires close contact, says Klara Sondén at the Swedish Public Health Agency.
WorldThe number of confirmed Ebola cases in Congo-Kinshasa has exceeded 8,000. Of these, just over 3,900 have died.
WorldFewer and fewer people are dying in road accidents globally, according to new figures from the World Health Organization (WHO). Since 2011, the number has fallen by 21 percent.
WorldSeveral hospitals were attacked by Iranian security forces during the brutal suppression of protests in the country. Doctors remain imprisoned. The information has been confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO).
WorldNearly 500 civilians who were in a hospital were killed by the paramilitary force RSF when it took the city of al-Fashir, according to information provided to the World Health Organization WHO. "Dismayed and deeply shocked by the reports," writes WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on X.
WorldThe third phase of a large-scale effort to vaccinate children against polio has begun in northern Gaza. Earlier, a vaccine convoy was stopped at gunpoint, according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa.
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