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Nobel winner Mukwege warns of predatory US deal for DR Congo

A US-brokered peace deal in the DR Congo is more focused on plundering the country's resources than offering security, Nobel Peace Prize-winning Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege has told AFP.

France locks down 1,700 on cruise ship after 92-year-old dies

French authorities on Wednesday confined more than 1,700 passengers and crew on a British cruise ship after an elderly passenger died and dozens suffered upset stomachs, health officials said.

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No cadmium please: French want less toxin in their baguettes

France is mulling how to prevent people from ingesting too much of the heavy metal cadmium, after a warning their breakfast cereal and baguettes could be contaminated with the toxin.

France locks down 1,700 on cruise ship after 90-year-old dies

French authorities on Wednesday confined more than 1,700 passengers and crew on a British cruise ship docked in Bordeaux after an elderly passenger died, said officials, who played down any links to the hantavirus scare.

Poor planning fuels Bangladesh contraceptive crisis

Bangladesh's once-praised family planning system is buckling under severe contraceptive shortages, raising fears of a rise in unplanned pregnancies in one of the world's most densely populated countries.

Why are some people mosquito magnets? Clues are emerging

Ever felt like mosquitoes bite you while ignoring everyone else? Scientists are now making progress in deciphering the complex chemical cocktail that makes particular people more enticing to these disease-spreading bloodsuckers.

Vitamins over vaccines: misinformation entrenched amid Indonesia measles surge

A surge in measles cases in Indonesia has made stay-at-home mother Fitri Fransiskha uneasy -- but not enough to vaccinate her four children against the highly contagious and deadly virus.

US Supreme Court maintains mail access to abortion pill for now

The US Supreme Court on Monday temporarily maintained mail access to the widely used abortion pill mifepristone.

Final hantavirus ship evacuations begin after weather delay

The final evacuations from a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak started in Spain's Canary Islands on Monday after unfavourable weather conditions unexpectedly forced it to dock.

Hantavirus: confirmed cases by nationality

Here is a roundup of which countries have confirmed or probable cases of nationals infected by hantavirus after the outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius, according to the World Health Organization.

Australia to quarantine six people from hantavirus ship

Australia will place six people from a cruise ship struck with the rat-borne hantavirus in a purpose-built quarantine facility north of Perth for at least three weeks, the government said Monday.

US citizen from hantavirus ship tests positive

The operation to repatriate passengers of the cruise ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak continued into Monday, as US officials said an American had tested positive for the virus.

Hantavirus outbreak renews painful memories for Patagonian village

Mailen Valle lost her father and two sisters during a hantavirus outbreak more than seven years ago in Epuyen, a village in Argentina's Patagonia region.

Plane with hantavirus evacuees lands in Netherlands

A plane carrying evacuees from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius landed in the Netherlands on Sunday, passengers disembarking in seemingly good health and spirits, an AFP reporter saw.

Evacuation of hantavirus-hit ship begins in Canary Islands

Occupants of a cruise ship struck by a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has sparked international alarm began leaving the vessel in Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday for their repatriation.

Trapped seafarers traumatised by Gulf fighting: charities

Isolated and traumatised by drones and missiles, seafarers in the Gulf face grave mental suffering after more than two months stuck on board in the Middle East war, maritime charities warn.

WHO says hantavirus risk low after flight attendant tests negative

The World Health Organization insisted Friday that there is a minimal risk from the hantavirus to the general public, as countries prepared to repatriate passengers stuck on a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak.

Child deaths mount from Bangladesh measles outbreak

Bangladesh's deadliest measles outbreak in decades is stretching its health system, with children filling hospital wards and doctors struggling to contain a surge in infections that have killed more than 300 youngsters.

In big man US football league, guys score a different kind of goal

In a football league of big men trying to lose weight, the five-a-side teams feature names like OB City, Big Bananas and Heavy Touch FC.

NY to hire 500 addiction recovery mentors with opioid settlement cash

New York will invest $12 million of settlement funds from opioid manufacturers to recruit 500 specialists to help treat people battling addiction, the city's mayor said Thursday.

WHO says now five confirmed cruise ship hantavirus cases

The World Health Organization said Thursday there were now five confirmed hantavirus cases from the Atlantic cruise ship outbreak, with three more suspected -- and warned further cases were possible.

WHO warns of more hantavirus cases in 'limited' outbreak

The World Health Organization said Thursday that more cases of the hantavirus could emerge but expected the outbreak to be "limited" if precautions are taken, after the disease killed three passengers from a cruise ship.

Oil sinks, Tokyo leads Asia stock surge on growing Mideast peace hopes

Oil sank again Thursday and Tokyo's Nikkei index led another strong rally across Asia stocks, fuelled by growing optimism the Iran war is close to ending and the revival of demand for all things AI.

'Oh, gosh': Inside the race to test for cruise ship hantavirus

It was the start of a long weekend in South Africa on Friday when Lucille Blumberg received an email from a fellow infectious disease specialist about an unknown illness on a cruise ship.

Virus-hit cruise ship evacuees head to Europe

A medical plane that left Cape Verde following the evacuation of a cruise ship hit by the hantavirus landed in Spain's Canary Islands on Wednesday, while a second flight headed for the Netherlands.

Virus-hit cruise ship evacuees head to Spain, Netherlands

A plane that left Cape Verde following the evacuation of a cruise ship hit by the hantavirus landed in Spain's Canary Islands on Wednesday, while a second flight headed for the Netherlands.

Three evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise ship

Emergency crews on Wednesday evacuated three people from a cruise ship stricken with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus, the UN's health agency said, as experts confirmed a rare strain that can be transmitted between humans.

Trump says he works out 'one minute a day' as he restores fitness award

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday his exercise routine lasts at most a minute a day, as he signed an order to bring back a presidential fitness award for children.

Hantavirus on the Hondius: what we know

Three passengers who were cruising the Atlantic Ocean have died and others have fallen sick amid a rare hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius, currently anchored off Cape Verde.

Race to find port for hantavirus-stricken cruise ship

Health authorities were racing to find a port for a cruise ship battling a suspected hantavirus outbreak Tuesday, as it remained off Cape Verde with passengers isolating after three people died.

'Spreading like wildfire': Fiji grapples with soaring HIV cases

As evening falls in Fiji's capital, a steady stream of people approaches a makeshift clinic that is a first line of defence against one of the world's fastest-growing HIV epidemics.

Passengers isolating on cruise after Cape Verde ban over suspected virus deaths

Passengers are isolating aboard a cruise ship on which a suspected outbreak of hantavirus has killed three people, its operator said Monday, after Cape Verde refused them entry.

Cruise ship operator says Dutch to repatriate two ill passengers

Dutch authorities will attempt to repatriate two sick people from a cruise ship battling a suspected outbreak of hantavirus that has already claimed three lives, the vessel's operator said Monday.

Marathon brothers run Ireland in race to find dementia cure

Jordan Adams, who ran the London marathon with a 25-kilogram fridge on his back last weekend, is now running around Ireland in a race to find a cure for a form of dementia both he and his brother are near certain to contract.

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