no comment Watch: Chinese New Year is celebrated at the Eiffel Tower Performances took place in Paris on Saturday. 25/01/2020
world news Untreatable gonorrhoea 'only a matter of time' Gonorrhoea is becoming untreatable as superbug strains of the sexually-transmitted infection emerge, health experts warn. The new strains mean 07/07/2017
world news Deadly dengue epidemic declared in region of Peru The World Health Organisation has declared a dengue epidemic in Peru's northwestern region of Piura after the local death toll reached 19. 16/05/2017
USA Epidemic: US heroin deaths quadruple in five years The US is facing an opioid epidemic and fatal overdoses of heroin have more than quadrupled in five years ending 2015 24/02/2017
World No more AIDS by 2030? Being diagnosed with HIV today means something very different than it did 20 or 30 years ago. 30/11/2016
world news Risk of bird flu rockets in parts of Europe France has raised the level of alert about an outbreak of the disease from "negligeable" to "heightened" in some regions. 17/11/2016
USA Zika spraying goes ahead in Miami despite protests over insecticide-use Planes have completed an aerial spraying for mosquitoes carrying Zika in Miami, despite protests over the insecticide’s possible harmful effects. 09/09/2016
USA Pregnant women warned against Miami travel as more Zika cases detected Pregnant women are being warned not to travel to Miami in Florida after another 10 Zika cases were identified. 02/08/2016
Spain Spain says Europe's first Zika microcephaly birth confirmed in Catalonia Europe’s first Zika microcephaly birth has been confirmed in Spain. 25/07/2016
Angola Angola yellow fever outbreak spreads The number of deaths from a yellow fever outbreak in Angola has risen to 225 with at least another 1,600 infected. However experts fear the numbers 06/04/2016
USA US health officials warn of mass Zika virus infections in Puerto Rico There is concern that hundreds of thousands of people on the US island territory of Puerto Rico could become infected with the Zika virus this year 01/04/2016
World Mosquitoes the world’s deadliest animal (after man, of course) Mosquitoes (all genera combined) kill more than 500,000 people worldwide each year. That makes them the second most deadly species to humans after 19/02/2016
no comment Combating the spread of Zika Efforts are being stepped up across the Americas, including in Panama, Uruguay, Peru and Honduras, to help fight the rapid spread of the 06/02/2016
World Scientists confront pharmaceutical puzzle in the hunt for a Zika vaccine On Monday, and for the first time since the recent Ebola crisis, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a global health emergency in response 04/02/2016
world news Ukraine in the grip of deadly flu epidemic Three strains of the virus are involved, including swine flu 27/01/2016
