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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 2d
🚨Almost nine in 10 clinics in war-ravaged DRC run low on medicines

@icrc.org warns that health centres in the eastern region face a dire situation amid a mass exodus of medical staff

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 2d
Suriname, once with the highest malaria rates in South America, has become the first Amazon nation to eliminate the disease

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 4d
Police open manslaughter investigation into child deaths linked to toxic cough syrup

Samples of an Indian-made medicine allegedly contained up to 500 times the permissible limit of a toxin called diethylene glycol

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 7d
All in one ‘super’ Covid vaccines could slow next pandemic, study finds

Modelling suggests the strategy would ‘buy time’ by reducing deaths in a large-scale outbreak

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 9d
Mosquitoes that carry dengue and chikungunya found in England for first time

UKHSA finds eggs laid by the insects near Heathrow and a motorway service station on the M20, underlining the new threat posed to Britain

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 9d
‘It’s all dead now... nothing will grow’: Fish and hippos dissolve in polluted acid river

Zambia counts the cost of a toxic waste leak that sickened humans, killed animals and devastated agricultural land

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 9d
America reverts to calling mpox ‘monkeypox’ in anti-woke drive

The CDC quietly reintroduces the term, despite a broad consensus that the original name is stigmatising and scientifically inaccurate

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 14d
US and Russia criticise plans to limit AI weapons

UN secretary general’s proposal to ban weapons that operate without human oversight will face stiff opposition from Washington and Moscow

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 14d
Bangladesh bets on British vaccine in bid to wipe out malaria

In Asia’s first mass rollout of the R21 malaria vaccine, scientists are analysing whether the shot could accelerate the push to elimination

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 15d
US pushes for truce to end Sudan bloodshed

Britain joins calls for ‘humanitarian pause’ as rebels move in on besieged city of El Fasher

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 15d
‘Miracle’ HIV drug to be sold at knock-down price in over 100 countries

Deals to make lenacapavir available at a fraction of its original list price hailed as ‘genuine chance’ to end global epidemic

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 17d
Our reporter, @sneweyy.bsky.social, recently went to Singapore to find out more about the organisation, its ‘biosecure ballroom’, and the work researchers are doing on Ebola, cholera and pandemic preparedness.

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 17d
(4/5) The idea has been to create a vaccine research centre to bridge what has become known in the pharmaceutical world as the “valley of death” and drive forward immunisations specifically designed for low-income countries
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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 17d
(3/5) The facility is at the heart of the next phase of a partnership between the pharmaceutical giant MSD and the British philanthropic powerhouse Wellcome – who came together in a highly unusual move, to form Hilleman Laboratories
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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 17d
(2/5) Why? Because technicians can pivot rapidly from one vaccine technology or disease target to another – whether that’s research into a next-generation Ebola vaccine, or responding to a new pandemic threat
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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 17d
(1/5) It doesn’t feel like much of a ballroom. There’s no orchestra,opulent drapery or free-flowing champagne. Instead of white tie, the dress code is hazmat suits.

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 17d
Gates Foundation pledges $1bn to fund fighting HIV, TB and malaria, piling pressure on UK

Britain helped set up the Global Fund, but deep cuts to aid spending have raised concerns that it may be about to slash its support

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 18d
Inside Singapore’s ‘biosecure ballroom’, where scientists take on the world’s deadliest diseases

Exclusive: Merck and @wellcometrust.bsky.social are investing £56m into an innovative lab designing cheap vaccines for low-income countries

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 18d
A million people risk starving to death in Yemen, UN warns

Renewed fighting has severed supply lines, disrupted food imports & blocked aid to millions of Yemenis already struggling to eat

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 18d
A million people risk starving to death in Yemen, UN warns

Renewed fighting has severed supply lines, disrupted food imports & blocked aid to millions of Yemenis already struggling to eat

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 21d
🚨Putin sends squads of sick soldiers into Pokrovsk ‘meat grinder’

Troops infected with HIV, hepatitis and other diseases have been seen wearing armbands to mark out their health status, military experts say

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 22d
Colombia’s ‘teenage’ mercenaries become soldiers-for-hire in Sudan’s savage war

The presence of hundreds of South American fighters in the Sudanese desert adds another unexpected international element to the conflict

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 22d
Give Palestinians safe haven to escape Gaza, UN genocide report author tells Israel

If Israel was truly concerned about humanitarian zones, it would provide refuge for Palestinians within its own borders, says Chris Sidoti

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 22d
Hunger has created a hidden diabetes crisis, experts warn

A little-known form of the disease affects up to 25 million people, yet much of the global health community does not officially recognise it

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 24d
(5/5) Prof Alex de Waal, leading famine expert
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“You may not have the same images. But El Fasher is as terrible as Gaza – and it can be stopped with political effort,” he said
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