Monkeypox is now a national public health emergency in the U.S. – an epidemiologist explains what this means
After news broke that the U.S. declared monkeypox to be a public health emergency, friends and family started asking me,...
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Monkeypox vaccines: A virologist answers 6 questions about how they work, who can get them and how well they prevent infection
Monkeypox isn’t going to be the next COVID-19. But with the outbreak having bloomed to thousands of infections, with cases...
Australia secures 450,000 new monkeypox vaccines. What are they and who can have them?
Health Minister Mark Butler today announced Australia had secured 450,000 doses of a third-generation monkeypox vaccine, 22,000 of which will...
Five historical summer drinks to keep you cool
We all have our favourite summer cold drinks, from fruity British favourites like a cup of thirst-quenching Pimms or a...
Facial injuries hurt Nigerians’ pockets too: how to reduce the burden
Injury to the face – from road traffic accidents, for example – can leave a person with a damaged appearance...
Do we care enough about COVID?
The COVID-19 pandemic has already generated its own mythology. In Britain, they talk of the “myth of the blitz” –...
Fish in a major South African river are full of microplastics
We are living in the plastic age. Plastics are literally everywhere: clothes, furniture, computers, phones and more contain plastic materials....
Remembering Frantz Fanon – six great reads
Frantz Fanon, the Martinique-born psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and leading pan-Africanist, would have been 97 on 20 July 2022. He left...
Masks are ‘strongly suggested’ by health authorities as the winter COVID wave hits. Here’s how effective they are
Health departments are predicting another COVID surge related, in part, to more easily transmitted new variants and waning immunity. Given...
Why sexual and reproductive law for east African countries is being resisted
Six of the countries of the East African Community – Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania – recently...
