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Around one in six adolescents has reported being cyberbullied, a “small increase” from 2018, according to a new study. Conducted in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO)’s European regional office, researchers surveyed more than 279,000 young people aged 11, 13, and 15 about bullying across 44 European and Central Asian countries and regions as well as Canada. They found that while overall bullying trends have remained stable, cyberbullying, including sending mean messages, posts, or emails, or sharing videos or photos online without permission, had increased. “The digital wor...
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Scientists in Costa Rica are injecting venom into horses to create antibodies to treat humans bitten by snakes. Veterinarians at the Clodomiro Picado Institute breed poisonous snakes and extract their lethal venom. "The head is taken and the rest of the body brought to a glass container with cold insulation, we expose the fangs. Once the fangs are exposed, we massage the glands where the venom is released, after this process, the mouth is disinfected and the animal is returned to its enclosure," said Jasmin Arias, a natural resources manager at Clodomiro Picado Serpentarium. The extracted veno...
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The number of new cancer cases in Europe is estimated to grow by 22.5 per cent over the next two decades, according to new estimates from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). That’s as the number of cancer diagnoses grows 55 per cent globally between 2022 and 2045, from roughly 19.9 million cancer cases in 2022 to 30.9 million cases in 2045. The new estimates were released ahead of World Cancer Day on February 4 and highlight the “growing burden” of cancer and a need to address cancer inequities, according to IARC, the cancer agency of the World Health Organization (WHO). Am...
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American forces have carried out strikes in Yemen against 10 attack drones and a ground control station belonging to the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, according to the US military. The United States Central Command, known as centcom, claimed they “presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and the US Navy ships in the region." Centcom earlier announced that vessels had also shot down an anti-ship ballistic missile fired by the Houthis, and then downed three Iranian drones less than an hour later. It did not specify if the drones shot down by the naval destroyer were designed for attack or s...
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In a research letter, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that cases of leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, have surged in Central Florida. The area accounts for 81% of reported cases in the state and almost one-fifth of cases nationwide. Leprosy is an infectious disease that normally spreads through contact and primarily affects a patient’s skin and peripheral nervous system. Known symptoms of the disease include discolored skin patches, thick and dry skin, loss of eyebrows and eyelashes, muscle weakness and enlarged nerves. The research letter noted that “the numbe...
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The cases were found in two different individuals on March 23 and March 27.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Indonesia has confirmed a new Covid-19 sub-variant Omicron XBB.1.16 or Arcturus after two cases were recently detected in the country, said an official. “Yes, two cases have been found,” the head of the Communication and Public Services Bureau of the Health Ministry Siti Nadia Tarmizi told Kompas.com on Friday, April 14. Nadia said that the cases were found in two different individuals on March 23 and March 27. One of them is an international traveler. Nadia mentioned that the symptoms are not categorized as severe. She also acknowledged that this sub-variant is highly tr...
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Only three people have so far been known to have contracted the disease, all of them in China.
KOMPAS.com \- China has reported the first fatal case of H3N8 bird flu in humans after registering two other non-fatal infections with the disease last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said late on Tuesday, April 11. The death reported was that of a 56-year-old woman from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. The WHO said that a wider spread of the virus between humans was unlikely but stressed the importance "of global surveillance to detect virological, epidemiological and clinical changes associated with circulating influenza viruses which may affect human [or animal] health....
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China announced nearly 60,000 deaths since early December last year.
BEIJING, KOMPAS.com — The World Health Organization has appealed to China to keep releasing information about its wave of Covid-19 infections after the government announced nearly 60,000 deaths since early December last year following weeks of complaints it was failing to tell the world what was happening. The announcement Saturday, Jan. 14, was the first official death toll since the ruling Communist Party abruptly dropped anti-virus restrictions in December despite a surge in infections that flooded hospitals. That left the WHO and other governments appealing for information, while the Unite...
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The vaccine will be distributed to immunocompromised individuals, not the entire community.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Indonesia’s Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said that the government will distribute the monkeypox vaccine to those who are at high risk of exposure to the disease starting from the end of this year. “The distribution [of monkeypox vaccine] will be done at the end of this year,” Budi said at the Presidential Palace on Thursday, Aug. 25. He said that the monkeypox vaccine will not be distributed to the entire public. “The vaccine will be distributed to immunocompromised individuals, not the entire community. Most of the people have already received the [smallpox] vacci...
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Indonesia has recorded its first case of monkeypox in a 27-year-old man who returned from traveling overseas.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com \- Indonesia has recorded its first case of monkeypox in a 27-year-old man who returned from traveling overseas, the country’s health ministry said on Saturday, Aug. 20. The World Health Organization designated the outbreak of the virus an emergency last month -- something it reserves for diseases of highest concern. Indonesian health ministry spokesperson Mohammad Syahril said the patient had a “high awareness and knowledge of the disease”. “So when he got the symptoms, he immediately checked it (with) the doctor. The result came (back) positive within a day,” Syahril told...
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