Health

Long Covid symptoms affects one in eight, study suggests

PARIS, France (AFP) -- One in eight people who get coronavirus develop at least one symptom of long Covid, one…

India reports Asia’s first possible monkeypox death

  by Aishwarya KUMAR Agence France Presse NEW DELHI, India (AFP) -- Indian authorities reported Asia's first possible monkeypox fatality…

Peru registers first death in monkeypox patient: hospital

LIMA, Peru (AFP) -- Peru on Monday recorded its first death of a monkeypox-infected person, with more than 300 cases…

Conjoined twins separated with help of virtual reality in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) -- Conjoined twins born in Brazil with a fused head and brain have been separated…

Insecurity, inflation deepen malnutrition in Nigeria’s northwest

by Patrick Markey Agence France-Presse KATSINA, Nigeria (AFP) -- Lariya Abdulkareem's family used to make a living farming beans and…

Countries agree pandemic accord should be legally binding

by Robin Millard Agence France-Press GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- Countries meeting to negotiate a new international accord on how to…

Monkeypox: From beginnings in Africa to global spread

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- As monkeypox infections jump around the world, prompting a scramble for vaccines, AFP looks at how…

Danish lab to supply 1.5 million monkeypox doses in Europe

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AFP) -- Danish company Bavarian Nordic, the lone laboratory manufacturing a licensed vaccine against monkeypox, said Tuesday an…

India reports first case of monkeypox

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) -- India has reported its first confirmed case of monkeypox after a 35-year-old man with a…

Ghana reports two suspected cases of Marburg virus

  ACCRA, Ghana (AFP) -- Ghana has reported two suspected cases of the Marburg virus, which belongs to the same…

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