Police in The Gambia are investigating the deaths of 66 children, which have been linked to four brands of imported Indian cough syrup. Senior officials from the Medicine Control Agency…
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Gambia: Death of sixty-six children linked to Indian-made cough syrups
A global alert has been issued over four cough syrups after the World Health Organization (WHO) warned they could be linked to the deaths of 66 children in The Gambia.…
UK: Fight against monkeypox rages on
The UK’s monkeypox cases continuing to fall, says one of Britain’s leading infectious disease modellers. Prof Neil Ferguson believes vaccines and vigilance have helped drive cases down from a peak…
Uganda: Ebola outbreak
The health authorities in Uganda declared an outbreak of Ebola after a case of the relatively rare Sudan strain was confirmed in Mubende district in the central part of the…
Greenland: Demand for answers over Danish birth control scandal
Denmark and Greenland have formally agreed to launch a two-year investigation into historic birth control practices carried out for many years on Inuit Greenlanders by Danish doctors. Thousands of Inuit…
India: Bihar IAS officer mocks schoolgirl’s sanitary pad request
A female civil servant’s response to a schoolgirl’s request for free sanitary pads has sparked backlash in India. The teenager made the request at a workshop organised with Unicef in…
Pakistan: Chinese national shot dead at Karachi dental clinic
An armed attacker posing as a dental patient has killed a man and injured two other people at a clinic in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi. All three were…
German: Residents sue government over toxic air pollution
A group of German residents are suing their government over “dangerously” high air pollution levels. They claim their right to breathe clean and healthy air is being violated, and that…
USA: California couple sue clinic for alleged IVF swap ‘horror’
A California couple gave birth to a stranger’s child after being given the wrong embryo by a fertility clinic during in vitro fertilisation (IVF), says a lawsuit. Daphna and Alexander…
China: School locked down children after one Covid case
Dozens of students were held inside a Chinese primary school for hours after it was locked down because a staff member tested positive for Covid-19. A large group of parents…