EU approves smallpox vaccine for use against monkeypox

Jul252022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

EU approves smallpox vaccine for use against monkeypox

Approval of Imvanex comes after the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency. The European Union’s executive arm has approved a smallpox vaccine for use against monkeypox after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared its spread a global health emergency, the Danish drugmaker that developed the jab said. “The European Commission has extended the marketing authorisation for the company’s smallpox vaccine, Imvanex, to include protection from monkeypox” in line with a recommendation by the EU’s medicines watchdog, Bavarian Nordic said in a statement on Monday. “The approval … is valid in all European Union Member States as well as in Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.” The European Medicines Agency (EMA) carries out a scientific assessme...

Jul212022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19: White House

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Biden, who is fully vaccinated and has had two booster shots, is experiencing mild symptoms the White House says. Joe Biden had traveled to Massachusetts on Wednesday to give a speech [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters United States President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, is experiencing “very mild symptoms” and will continue to carry out his duties the White House has said. Biden, 79, who will isolate at the White House, has been in contact with members of staff and will participated in planned meetings, the president’s Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced in a statement on Thursday morning. The president has begun taking Paxlovid, an antiviral drug recommended for those at risk of severe illness. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said in the case of COV...

Jul202022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Fire breaks out at south London park

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The London Fire Brigade has said that around 25 firefighters are tackling grass fires in Croydon as the heatwave continues. The wildfires are in Shirley Hills, a large park in the south London Borough of Croydon. Earlier today, the London Fire Brigade said 175 firefighters were tackling a grass fire on Pea Lane in Upminster, east London. It warned that smoke was blowing over the M25 as three hectares of a cornfield and some scrubland were alight. SOURCE: BBC

Jul142022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

One dead, 84 injured in Sri Lanka protests – Hospital officials say

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One person has died and 84 others injured after protests rocked the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on Wednesday, hospital officials have said. The 26-year-old man died from breathing difficulties after police forces lobbied tear gas at protesters. Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, was appointed acting president after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country. But the decision triggered further protests demanding that he also resign. Hospital officials at the Colombo National Hospital said the injuries came from protesters who were outside the prime minister’s office as well as those who were outside parliament later in the evening. Police had fired tear gas at protesters who attempted to break down the gates of the prime minister’s office in Colombo, befor...

Jul132022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

India to overtake China as world’s most populous country in 2023 – UN

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India is on track to overtake China as the planet’s most populous country next year, according to a U.N. report published on Monday. The report, from the population division of the U.N.’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said China and India were each home to over 1.4 billion people in 2022. “India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country during 2023,” the U.N. said. The Indian government’s census for 2011 put the country’s population at more than 1.2 billion. “The global human population will reach 8.0 billion in mid-November 2022 from an estimated 2.5 billion people in 1950,” according to the U.N.’s report. Looking further ahead, the U.N. said its latest projections showed the global population could reach roughly 8.5 billion in 2030 and 10...

Jul132022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

World population to reach 8 billion this year – United Nations

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The latest United Nations (UN) projections suggest that the world’s population could grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050, before reaching a peak of around 10.4 billion people during the 2080s. The population is expected to remain at that level until 2100. Slowest growth rate since 1950s However, the annual World Population Prospect report, released on Monday to coincide with World Population Day, also notes that the global population is growing at its slowest rate since 1950, having fallen to less that one per cent in 2020. Fertility, the report declares, has fallen markedly in recent decades for many countries: today, two-thirds of the global population lives in a country or area where lifetime fertility is below 2.1 births per woman, roughly the level r...

Jul122022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Assassin may have killed Abe as revenge against religious group that bankrupted his mother

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Tetsuya Yamagami, the man accused of assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, was reportedly motivated by his hatred of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, also known as the Unification Church. Members of the Unification Church are sometimes referred to by a pejorative colloquialism derived from the name of the group’s founder — the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who considered himself to be the second coming of Christ. Japanese police have said that Yamagami told them he was motivated by animosity toward the religious group he blamed for his mother’s financial ruin, while a Tokyo-based representative confirmed on Sunday that Yamagami’s mother was a member of the church. Abe did not belong to the Unification Church, but he did give paid speeches at church-...

Jul122022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Man sets fire to church because his wife kept donating to it

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Tired of seeing his family’s money being donated to the local church, an exasperated Russian man set the place of worship a blaze in a feat of rage. On the morning of June 26, a fire broke out at the Church of St. Basil the Great in the village of Pargolovo, Russia’s Saint Petersburg district. The fire quickly engulfed the wooden roof and walls of the building, and the entire place would have probably burned to a crisp until the firefighters arrived, if the parishioners didn’t put the fire out themselves. Still, the damage was considerable, and local news outlets reported that many of the locals had tears in their eyes as they looked at their local place of worship. But that sadness quickly turned to anger directed at the man responsible for the devastation. In the beginning, m...

Jul82022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Shinzo Abe: Japan ex-PM assassinated at campaign event

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Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe has died in hospital after he was shot at a political campaign event, say local media. Mr Abe was shot at twice while he was giving a speech in the southern city of Nara on Friday morning. He immediately collapsed and was rushed to the nearest hospital. Pictures taken at the scene showed him bleeding. Security officials at the scene tackled the gunman, and the 41-year-old suspect is now in police custody. In an emotional press conference earlier, prime minister Fumio Kishida told reporters that Mr Abe was in a "very grave condition". "Currently doctors are doing everything they can," said Mr Kishida who appeared to be holding back tears, adding that he was "praying from his heart" that Mr Abe would survive. He also condemned the at...

Jul72022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigns

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced his resignation as Conservative party leader following a wave of government resignations. “It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister,” he said on Thursday. “I’d agreed with Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of our backbench MPs, that the process of choosing that new leader should begin now. And the timetable will be announced next week.” “So I want to say to the millions of people who voted for us in 2019, many of them voted Conservative, for the first time. Thank you for that incredible mandate. The biggest Conservative majority, since 1987,” he added. As recently as last night Johnson said he intended to stay and fight. But the...

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