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☆ Gaza: US physicians pen letter to Biden and Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Sahar Akbarzai | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Sources told CNN the president was expected to be as forceful as he has ever been in pushing Netanyahu to agree to a deal. Mohammed Salem/ReutersThe ‘only independent monitors’ in GazaDr. Adam Hamawy, a US plastic surgeon and former US Army combat trauma surgeon, told CNN on Thursday, “there’s no one getting firsthand accounts other than physicians. In signing the letter, Perlmutter told CNN that he hopes “the average American can feel the pain we feel on a daily basis. “Everyone in Gaza is sick, injured, or both,” with few exceptions, their letter said. We are simply physicians and nurses who cannot remain silent about what we saw in Gaza.” the letter said.

Persons: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, ”, “, Feroze Sidwa, Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Israel, Khan Younis, Mohammed Salem, Adam Hamawy, … we’re, you’re, who’ve, Hamawy, people’s, Tammy Duckworth, Mark Perlmutter, Perlmutter, hadn’t, ” Perlmutter, They’ll, Israel’s, Tala Alrajjal, Sam Fossum, Eugenia Ugrinovich Organizations: CNN, White, Humanitarian Law, European Hospital, Nasser Hospital, US Army, Gaza, Israel Defense Forces, World Surgical Association, Gazan Health Ministry, Health Organization, United Nations Locations: Gaza, Ukraine, Iraq, Israel, US, Sarajevo, New York City, Khan, Rafah, North Carolina

☆ India is on alert after a fresh outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus. Here’s what you need to know
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Sam Meredith | In Samuelmeredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Bats are believed to be one of the carriers of Nipah virus, a zoonotic disease that spreads from animals to humans. Health authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala are on high alert following the latest flare-up of the deadly Nipah virus. Kerala Health Minister Veena George said Tuesday that the close relatives of the teenager had tested negative for the virus, according to local media reports. The Nipah virus, which partly inspired the fictional "MEV-1" virus in the 2011 Hollywood film "Contagion," is considered one of the most dangerous pathogens circulating in the wild. The Nipah virus is transmitted to humans from animals such as fruit bats or pigs.

Persons: Veena George Organizations: World Health Organization Locations: Kerala, Malaysia, Nipah

☆ Hepatitis A and Other Diseases Surge Among Gaza’s Displaced, U.N. Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Adam Sella | Matthew Mpoke Bigg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But living in a former minimart, sharing a toilet with 20 others and washing dishes with dirty seawater, no amount of hand sanitizer could help. One by one her girls fell sick with what doctors diagnosed as hepatitis A, a viral liver infection that is transmitted through person-to-person contact or contaminated food or water, and can spread quickly in unsanitary conditions. More than 100,000 people in Gaza have contracted acute jaundice syndrome, or suspected hepatitis A, since the war between Hamas and Israel began on Oct. 7, the World Health Organization said last week. There are also nearly one million cases of acute respiratory infections, half a million cases of diarrhea and 100,000 cases of lice and scabies, the W.H.O. On Friday, the agency’s chief, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that even polio, a disease that has been eradicated in much of the world, was present in Gaza.

Persons: Sally Thabet, Deir al, “ Amoon, ”, Israel, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, poliovirus Organizations: World Health Organization Locations: Gaza City, Deir, Deir al Balah, Kandi, Gaza

☆ Israel is blocking physicians with Palestinian heritage from entering Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Yahya Abou-Ghazala | Alex Marquardt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Suleiman’s denial is part of a policy recently communicated to medical missions going into Gaza through Israel. Before the war, Palestinian medics and medics of Palestinian heritage who held other passports could apply to Israel for entry into Gaza and have no issues getting approval. Ambulances lined up in front of the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing during a visit of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on March 23. “We reiterate that we STRONGLY advice (sic) against any attempt of entering Gaza with a Palestinian background/roots,” the email stated. The ad disclosed that “applicants with a Palestinian ID or Palestinian roots are not allowed into Gaza.” The post has since been deleted.

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☆ Middle East Crisis Netanyahu Under Pressure to Address Cease-Fire Calls in His Speech to Congress
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Ephrat Livni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Children walking near stagnant wastewater on their way to a food distribution point in Deir al Balah, in central Gaza, last week. The large number of people treated for war injuries — almost 90,000, Gaza’s health ministry says — and the surge in illness have overwhelmed Gaza’s diminished medical system. The Israeli military has launched two operations at Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, fighting deadly battles with militants there. Before the war, Gaza’s health care system was “reasonably well functional,” said Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, the W.H.O.’s representative to Gaza and the West Bank. Now, fewer than half of its facilities remain even partly operational, he said, and its health care work force is severely depleted.

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☆ Covid-19 is an unwelcome attendee at the Paris Olympic Games
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Jacqueline Howard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —After a handful of Australian water polo players tested positive for Covid-19 this week, questions have emerged around how the spread of the disease will be mitigated at the Summer Olympic Games in Paris. Five players on Australia’s women’s water polo team have tested positive for Covid-19 as of Wednesday. Although the world is no longer under a public health emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Olympic Games come as a wave of Covid-19 infections has hit the United States. The French capital is expected to welcome about 15 million tourists while it hosts the Olympic Games. “Attending a mass gathering event increases your chances of being exposed to respiratory diseases, including whooping cough and COVID-19.

Persons: “, Lucia Mullen, ” Mullen, Anna Meares, ” Meares, “ We’re, ”, Joe Biden, Dr, Sanjay Gupta Organizations: CNN, Olympic, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Australian Olympic, US Centers for Disease Control, Paris, CNN Health, Paralympic, WHO, French Ministry of Health, European Centre for Disease Prevention Locations: Paris, ”, France, Australian, Tokyo, United States, Europe

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☆ From Zyn to vapes: Big Tobacco pushes further toward cigarette alternatives. Here’s who could come out on top
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

If you haven't been paying attention to tobacco companies, you might not recognize the new landscape. The alternatives also include heated tobacco and nicotine vapor products, although with the latter, tobacco companies face big competition from vaping companies and the proliferation of illicit vapes. PM 1Y mountain Philip Morris' one-year performance Countries around the globe have been working for years to reduce tobacco use. There is no way back," Philip Morris Chief Financial Officer Emmanuel Babeau said at a Deutsche Bank conference in June. Most of that came from companies in China, with tobacco companies only taking about 15% share, the bank said.

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☆ Nipah virus: Indian authorities tracing contacts after teen dies from virus in Kerala state, official says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Parts of Kerala are among those most at risk globally for outbreaks of the virus, a Reuters investigation showed last year. “The infected boy died on Sunday after a cardiac arrest,” Veena George, the state health minister told local TV reporters, speaking in the Malayalam language. “There is a minimum chance of an outbreak of Nipah virus at this stage,” he said, adding that the situation would be monitored for the next seven to 10 days. The state government said it is working to trace any affected people to contain the spread of the virus. Nipah has been linked to the deaths of dozens of people in Kerala since its first appearance in the state in 2018.

Persons: ” Veena George, Anoop Kumar, Nipah, ” Organizations: India — Authorities, World Health Organization, WHO, Aster MIMS Locations: Kochi, India, India’s Kerala, Kerala, Calicut, Malappuram, Kerala’s, Thiruvananthapuram, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Singapore

☆ A Border Crossing Shuttered for Months Traps the Sick and Wounded in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Aaron Boxerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After months of waiting, Fida Ghanem was granted a permit by Israel and Egypt to leave Gaza for urgent lymphoma treatment in the spring. But the next morning, Israeli forces seized the only border crossing from Gaza to Egypt, in Rafah, as part of a military offensive against Hamas in the area. “She should have been allowed to leave as soon as they found the cancer,” said her husband, Maher Ghanem. “But it was delay after delay.”For nearly all Gazans, the southern Rafah crossing has been the only way out since the war began nine months ago. Image Fida Ghanem with her husband, Maher Ghanem, in May.

Persons: Fida Ghanem, Ghanem, ”, Maher Ghanem, Israel, Tania Hary Organizations: Hamas, Aid, World Health Organization Locations: Israel, Egypt, Gaza, Rafah

CNN —The highly infectious polio virus has been found in sewage samples in Gaza, putting thousands of Palestinians at risk of contracting a disease that can cause paralysis. Gaza’s Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) both said they had carried out tests and found samples of the virus in sewage water. “Poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) had been identified at six locations in sewage samples collected on 23 June from Khan Younis and Deir al Balah,” WHO said Friday. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza called for practices to improve hygiene and safety. Meanwhile, hospitals in central Gaza said more than 20 people were killed after two Israeli air strikes on houses in the Nuseirat area.

Persons: Khan Younis, Deir al Balah, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, ” Tedros Organizations: CNN, Ministry of Health, World Health Organization, WHO, United Nations, UNICEF, Hamas, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israel Defense Forces Locations: Gaza

☆ 4 simple habits that will help you keep fit throughout life, from a personal trainer who works with active 90 year olds
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Serafina Kenny | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

People are living longer and want to know how to stay healthy to enjoy those extra years. Starting healthy habits as early as possible can help us to stay fit and active as we age. AdvertisementPeople are living longer. While it's never too late to make positive changes, staying fit and healthy in those extra years requires setting up healthy habits when we're younger. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Lauren Hurst's, —, it's, Lauren Hurst Organizations: Service, World Health Organization, Business

☆ After ‘historic backslide’ during pandemic, global childhood immunization rates stall, new data shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Maya Davis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The pandemic signified a “historic backslide,” according to Dr. Katherine O’Brien, director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biological at WHO. WHO and UNICEF’s 2023 immunization coverage report, released Sunday, is the world’s largest dataset on immunization trends for vaccinations against 14 diseases. It analyzed estimates from 185 countries and used a third dose of the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP3) vaccine — which is recommended for 1-year-olds — as the global marker for immunization coverage. The 2023 report also found HPV vaccine coverage in girls increased 7%, returning to near pre-pandemic levels. Analyzing immunization coverage in other areas of conflict is “a mixed picture,” O’Brien said.

Persons: Katherine O’Brien, ”, Ephrem, Lemango, ” Lemango, “, ” O’Brien, Subaas Shrestha, WHO’s O’Brien, “ I’ll, Dr, Sanjay Gupta, Melinda Gates Organizations: CNN, World Health Organization, United Nations, Fund, Biological, WHO, UNICEF, US Centers for Disease Control, Vaccine, Global, Get CNN, CNN Health, Vaccine Alliance, Melinda Gates Foundation Locations: Bangladesh, Indonesia, Brazil, Nigeria, Africa, Kathmandu, Nepal, United States, Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza, Israel, IA2030

☆ The Olympics have long promoted safe sex. Now it wants to focus on pleasure.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Jessie Gretener | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Rather, when it comes to sex, pleasure takes first place. They will also have numerous sexual health testing centers on site for athletes, in addition to the sexual health awareness messaging. Rather, she says the most productive way to encourage safe sex is to flip the script from the beginning by focusing on why people have sex. Philpott told CNN that the need to shift the narrative in safe sex conversations is as urgent as ever. The scheme to which he contributes, known as “Moving The Goalposts,” works directly with community leaders, fathers, and young boys to provide resources on sexual health, sexual rights, gender, and positive masculinity.

Persons: Ed, Buda Mendes, Terrence Higgins, Anne Philpott, ” Philpott, Philpott, “ There’s, it’s, Deogratia Okoko, ”, ” Okoko, “ Organizations: CNN, Paris, Olympic, World Health Organization, Olympics, Seoul Games, International Olympic, Paralympic Village, Getty, Terrence Higgins Trust, Wellcome Locations: Love, United States, COVID, Kilifi, Kenya

☆ South Africa: Dead seals on Cape Town beaches raise fears about widening rabies outbreak
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Nimi Princewill | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Dead seals are washing up along beaches in South Africa’s port city of Cape Town, a coastal management official told CNN Friday, amid an outbreak of rabies in the marine animals. Cape Town, home to dozens of beaches and a coastline extending over 300 kilometers (186 miles), harbors thousands of Cape fur seals, a seal species native to southern Africa. He urged calm however, saying it is normal to find carcasses of Cape fur seals along the shoreline. While “lots” of dead seals have washed ashore this week, many of them have died naturally, he said. Oelofse said there was yet to be a seal-to-human transmission of rabies in Cape Town and the city’s authorities were working to prevent it.

Persons: ”, Gregg Oelofse, Oelofse Organizations: CNN, ” Authorities, World Health Organization Locations: South Africa’s, Cape Town, Svalbard, Norway, Africa, South Africa, Western

☆ Counterfeit Ozempic Is on the Rise
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Dani Blum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Experts have grown increasingly concerned about fake versions of Ozempic and popular weight loss drugs. These copycats can look deceptively real, and may contain dangerous substances or entirely different drugs altogether. In June, the World Health Organization warned that fake batches of Ozempic were found in the United States, the United Kingdom and Brazil. Also in June, Eli Lilly issued a letter expressing concern that counterfeit versions of its own drugs, Mounjaro and Zepbound, were being sold online, through social media and at medical spas. Those who study the counterfeit drug market say these findings are alarming, but not all that surprising.

Persons: Eli Lilly, ”, George Karavetsos Organizations: World Health Organization, Food, Drug, Criminal Investigations Locations: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

☆ He bought a cheap house in Italy to improve his life expectancy
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Silvia Marchetti | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“Life expectancy in Italy is 82.7 years, while in the US it’s 79,” he says. For Thomas, life in Latronico fits in with his artistic philosophy. Slower pace of lifeThomas was influenced by the region’s healthier, slower-paced lifestyle and hopes that living here will increase his life expectancy. Thomas hopes to transform the second “move-in-ready” home into a multi-purpose arts complex, with accommodations for visiting international youth and adult artists. “In Latronico, I can do both.”While he says he loves Latronico, Thomas has discovered that life in a remote rural village in southern Italy isn’t always as idyllic as it seems.

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CNN —Yet again, tens of thousands of people in Gaza are on the move, as the Israeli military issues fresh evacuation orders for a number of areas in Gaza City. It’s unclear how many people in Gaza City have heeded the latest evacuation order. The IDF confirmed to CNN that the evacuation order for parts of Gaza City was the third in the past 10 days. On July 2, the Israeli authorities clarified that the European Hospital in Khan Younis was not included in the evacuation order. Now, one of the main hospitals in Gaza City – the Al Ahli Baptist – has also closed its doors.

Persons: CNN —, Khan Younis, don’t, Khader Al Za’anoun, Wafa, Al Za’anoun, “, ” Al Za’anoun, OCHA, Deir, Dawoud Abu Alkas, – Jonathan Whittall –, Tedros Ghebreyesus, –, Nasser, Al, Hosam Naoum, Rasheed, Saleh, ” Saleh, ” OCHA, ”, Maysa Saleh, Khan Younis “, Louise Wateridge Organizations: CNN, Israel Defense Forces, UN, UN Office, Humanitarian Affairs, IDF, Reuters, European Hospital, World Health Organization, Cross, Nasser, WHO, Episcopal, Facebook, Norwegian Refugee Council, NRC Locations: Gaza, Gaza City, Shujaya, Old City, Daraj, Khan Younis, Rafah, Al Mawasi, Khan, Al Ahli, Jerusalem, Deir al, Deir

☆ Seeing Workplace Misery, They Offer Company
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Martha C. White | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Making It Work” is a series is about small-business owners striving to endure hard times. Over six months of weekly video calls, Ms. Schiro, 45, learned how to pare down her overloaded to-do lists. Making changes like adding a line to her email signature saying that she does not respond to messages sent after 6 p.m. seemed like “stupid stuff,” she said, but it took an outsider’s perspective to pinpoint these adjustments. “When you’re burned out, it’s hard to think of those things and implement them,” Ms. Schiro said. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted how and where people work, the World Health Organization recognized burnout.

Persons: Karen Schiro, Ellyn, “, ”, Schiro, pare, you’re, ” Ms, Michael P, Leiter Organizations: World Health Organization, Acadia University Locations: Fairfax Station, Va, Tacoma, Nova Scotia

☆ More Ukrainians May Die in Attacks on Medical Sites in 2024, W.H.O. Data Suggest
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Eve Sampson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital on Monday highlighted the growing number of deadly attacks on medical facilities, vehicles and workers in the country this year. It adds to data from the World Health Organization and suggests that more Ukrainians may be on track to be killed in such attacks this year than last year. The organization also recorded 44 attacks on medical vehicles in that period. In all of 2023, the organization tallied 22 deaths and 117 injuries from 350 such attacks, and 45 more specifically on medical vehicles like ambulances. In all, the bombardment killed at least 38 people, including 27 in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, local officials said.

Organizations: Russian, World Health Organization Locations: Kyiv, Ukraine, Ukraine’s

☆ Experts are racing to contain 'the most dangerous' monkeypox virus yet before it causes a global outbreak
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewA deadly and fast-spreading new strain of mpox, the disease caused by the monkeypox virus, has global health officials ringing alarm bells. The new virus is called clade Ib, since it's a mutation of an even earlier form of mpox. AdvertisementThe new clade Ib virus could cause a global outbreak, experts fear, though they stopped short of warning of a pandemic. "The pandemic question is difficult," Trudie Lang, director of the Global Health Network at Oxford University, said in the briefing. The new clade Ib strain seems to do it all.

Persons: —, John Claude Udahemuka, Trudie Lang, There's, Lang, Murhula, mpox, Rosamund Lewis, Murhula Masirika Organizations: Service, University of Rwanda, Business, World Health Organization, Democratic, Global Health Network, Oxford University, Centers for Disease Control, WHO, Reuters Locations: Democratic Republic of, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, Africa

“People started stealing just to eat… Sick children cannot withstand famine.”Umm Ubaida comforts her daughter, Yasmin, aged 5, in Nasser Hospital, on Tuesday. CNNCNN footage from Nasser Hospital on Tuesday showed another evacuee – five-year-old blood cancer patient Yasmin – squirming in pain, her emaciated limbs sprawled on a teal mattress. Among those are 980 children with cancer – including 250 patients who could face “certain death” – the ministry reported on Friday. Israeli attacks in Gaza have since killed 37,718 Palestinians and injured another 86,377 people, according to Gaza health officials. Brothers Amjad, aged 2, and Ahmad, aged 7, are shown in Nasser Hospital, southern Gaza, before their medical evacuation to Egypt.

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☆ Critically Ill Children Allowed to Leave Gaza for First Time Since May
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Aaron Boxerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Israel and Egypt agreed to allow at least 19 sick children, most of them cancer patients, to leave Gaza for medical treatment on Thursday, Israeli and Palestinian officials said, in the first major evacuation of critically ill Gazans since the Rafah border crossing shut down in early May. The Israeli military said the operation had been carried out in coordination with the United States, Egypt and the international community. In total, 68 people — sick and injured patients and their escorts — were allowed to leave, the military said. They include those wounded in airstrikes, as well as cancer patients, children with life-threatening illnesses and older people who need open-heart surgery. Even before the war, many Gazans were forced to travel abroad for lifesaving treatments, like chemotherapy, which were almost nonexistent in the Gaza Strip.

Persons: —, Tania Hary, ” Organizations: World Health Organization Locations: Israel, Egypt, Gaza, Rafah, United States, “

☆ ‘Sugary food is a drug for me’: A growing number of children are addicted to ultraprocessed foods
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

“I really gravitated towards the sugary ultraprocessed foods — it was like a physical drive, I had to have it,” he said. While many people addicted to food will say that their symptoms began to worsen significantly in adolescence, some recall a childhood focused on ultraprocessed food. The Institute of Food Technologists, an association of food professionals and technologists, does not agree with the research on ultraprocessed food addiction. “Children who eat a lot of ultraprocessed foods could well be malnourished.”According to the International Food and Beverage Alliance, however, there is no clear, objective, reliable or scientifically validated definition for “ultraprocessed” food. “Each time I would pray, ‘Please be it, please make this the answer.’ But I would ultimately start binging on ultraprocessed foods,” Odwazny said.

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☆ Snapchill canned coffee recalled in the US over botulism fears
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Anna Cooban | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

London CNN —All Snapchill canned coffee products are being recalled across the United States because of fears they may contain a deadly toxin. The botulinum toxin can cause botulism, a rare but potentially fatal disease, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). “Snapchill is working on filing the appropriate notification with FDA,” the statement added. Snapchill distributed its products across the country through coffee roasters and retail outlets, as well as its own website. “Consumers should either destroy the products or return the product to Snapchill or the place of purchase for a refund,” the statement on the FDA’s website said.

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