By Dylan Robertson The Canadian Press Posted September 24, 2024 5:41 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal Liberals are creating a new agency to beef up Canada’s ability to handle rapidly spreading infectious diseases and protect from future pandemics. Health Emergency Readiness Canada is tasked with boosting … Read more
More than four years since Covid-19 was declared a pandemic by the WHO (World Health Organization) in March 2020, fear of another mass outbreak looms large. The WHO, on August 14, declared the current upsurge of Mpox or Monkeypox in Central Africa as a global emergency requiring urgent action. The global concern for the virus … Read more
A tame inflation report this week gave hope to Democrats that their biggest electoral weakness may finally be in the rearview mirror after being stubbornly persistent since 2022. Even as inflation has been slowing since then, it’s still a big worry for voters, and in his bid to get reelected, former President Donald Trump has … Read more
(NewsNation) — A recent decision by the U.S. State Department to stop granting visas to international nurses for the rest of the year could possibly make a current shortage of health care workers worse, advocacy groups are warning. Now, the American Association of International Healthcare Recruitment, as well as the American Health Care Association/National Center for … Read more
Former CDC Director Robert Redfield suggested that a bird flu pandemic among humans is inevitable ― and would be extremely lethal. (Watch the video below.) Redfield, who headed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2018 to 2021 after being appointed by the Trump administration, gave an alarming interview to NewsNation on Friday after … Read more
The former chief of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has issued a chilling forecast warning that bird flu could be the source of the next global pandemic, potentially claiming the lives of half of those it infects. Dr Robert Redfield, who led the CDC from 2018 to 2021, has sounded the alarm over … Read more
A combined jab for flu and Covid triggered a stronger immune response than separate single vaccines, according to data released by Moderna. The results raise hopes the new vaccine could be approved by regulators this year or next, before potentially being rolled out on the NHS. The US pharmaceutical firm’s Spikevax Covid jab is currently … Read more
A global treaty to fight pandemics like COVID is going to have to wait: After more than two years of negotiations, rich and poor countries have failed — for now — to come up with a plan for how the world might respond to the next pandemic. After COVID-19 triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions, leaders at … Read more
The whereabouts of a Chinese citizen journalist who served four years in prison for reporting on the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan and was expected to be released Monday are unknown, raising concern from activists. Zhang Zhan, who had been sentenced to four years in prison on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking … Read more
SHANGHAI (AP) — The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China staged a sit-in protest outside his lab after authorities locked him out of the facility — a sign of the Beijing’s continuing pressure on scientists conducting research on the coronavirus. Zhang Yongzhen wrote in an online post Monday that … Read more
