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The Kitum cave in Mount Elgon National Park, Kenya, is known as the world's deadliest cave. It's got some really dangerous viruses inside, like Ebola and Marburg. Experts are now worried that the Marburg virus might cause the next big outbreak, and the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a warning about it.
Marburg is an illness marked by bleeding and disruption of bodily functions. It can be deadly, with up to 88 per cent of people dying from it. ....
More than 4,000 children were adopted between April 2023 and March 2024, a number reached for the first time post-pandemic. According to government data, in 2023-24, 4009 children were adopted by families in India and abroad. In the 2018-19, 4027 children were adopted.
Even after India took steps to speed up the child adoption process, the pandemic saw a decline in adoptions with 3,745 children being adopted in 2019-20, 3,559 adopted in 2020-21, 3,405 adopted in 2021-22, and 3,441 adopted in 2022-23. ....
With more countries coming under the grip of the monkeypox outbreak, the World Health Network (WHN), an independent coalition of scientists formed to tackle the COVID-19 threat, has declared the disease a pandemic. The WHN said that the essential purpose of declaring a pandemic is to achieve a concerted effort across multiple countries or over the world to prevent widespread harm. An infection is declared pandemic when it grows over a wide area, crossing international boundaries, and usually affecting a large number of people. ....
As a resurgent COVID-19 wreaks havoc in China, more than 70 officials have been let go as a “punishment” in the past one month for failing to control the virus.
China has been witnessing a spurt in Covid cases owing to the more contagious Omicron variant.
According to South China Morning Post, top leaders have warned officials that strict action would be taken if they fail to act swiftly.
The warning comes even as health officials have acknowledged that most of the infections showed little or no symptoms making their detection difficult, the newspaper reported. ....