Thu 21 May 2026: Numbers are expected to rise, the WHO warns, as European officials emphasise that the risk of a European outbreak is low. The number of suspected Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda has risen to 600, with 139 suspected deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The […]
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Wed 20 May 2026: Australians are feeling the pressure of rising grocery prices. At the same time, we throw away huge amounts of perfectly edible food every year. Some food spoils before we can use it. But we waste plenty of food by throwing away parts of ingredients we simply don’t think to use. Many of these […]
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Sat 16 May 2026: My mother has always had one unbreakable rule: no outdoor shoes inside the house. It didn’t matter who you were – family member, neighbour, or guest – you had to take them off before crossing the threshold. As a child, I thought it was just one of her many quirks. But […]
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Fri 15 May 2026: Prosecutors in Germany announced Wednesday that a pediatrician has been charged with 130 cases of rape and other forms of sexual abuse involving children. The unidentified suspect who worked in clinics in Brandenburg state near Berlin allegedly committed the crimes over 12 years, they said in a statement, without specifying how […]
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Thu 14 May 2026: The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday that no new deaths from the cruise-ship-linked hantavirus outbreak have been reported since May 2, while the global public health risk remains low. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on the US social media company X that a total of 11 […]
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Tue 12 May 2026: World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday “our work is not over” to contain hantavirus after evacuations from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of the illness. The fate of the MV Hondius has sparked international alarm after three passengers died in an outbreak of the rare virus, for which no vaccines or […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: Imagine never again forgetting where you parked your car, or that last item you had on your grocery list, or why you walked into this room anyway. If you trust media stories about research currently under way at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to build an implantable device to restore memory, you might not […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: One French passenger and one from the US test positive after being evacuated from the vessel in the Canary Islands. A French woman and an American man have tested positive for hantavirus infections as countries around the world repatriate passengers from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak. French Health […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: Rising cancer cases are linked to toxic waste left behind during oil exploration in the 1980s. A group of 298 petitioners from remote villages of Marsabit County in northern Kenya is suing BP and the Kenyan government over oil exploration waste from the 1980s that it says is causing a cancer […]
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Sun 10 May 2026: A cruise ship affected by a hantavirus outbreak arrived off Spain’s Tenerife Island, where passengers and crew are set to disembark and return to their home countries, media reports said early Sunday. The MV Hondius reached waters near Granadilla Port early Sunday at around 5.30 am local time (0430GMT), with authorities […]
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