9 h. ago If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt

Deaths on the road costs countries up to 5% of GDP. Centring transport around people, not cars, can propel developmentIf you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people around the world, what would you say? Malaria perhaps? Pneumonia? Suicide? They’re all high up there, but no, it’s road accidents.Cars have been around for more than 120 years, and we know how to prevent these tragedies. Yet road crashes still claim more than two lives every minute – killing nearly 1.2 million people every year. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Discovery of potential pandemic virus in China raises global health concerns

Researchers in China have discovered a new coronavirus in bats that they say has the potential to spread to humans, after the world was recently hit by the COVID-19 pandemic

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20 h. ago Top doctor explains terrifying way Trump is letting world's deadly infections into America

Dr Amesh Adalja, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health, told DailyMail.com that one disease could become a real global emergency.

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43 h. ago US Congress sounds the alarm over China's proposed 600,000 square

China's proposed 'mega-embassy' in London raises 'significant security concerns', US politicians have warned.

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55 h. ago Trump’s dismantling of USAid raises risk of mpox global emergency, experts warn

As administration cuts off resources from African countries to contain outbreak, workers say ‘everybody’s lost’As the Trump administration dismantles the US Agency for International Development (USAid) and retreats from funding global public health efforts, mpox – formerly known as monkeypox – is at greater risk of becoming a wider global emergency, according to aid workers and global health experts.“It’s a real mistake not to be doing everything we can to control this while we’re still able to,” said Stephen Morse, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University focusing on risk assessment of infectious diseases. “Taking huge steps backwards is only going to make everything worse.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump’s aid cuts deny one million women a week access to contraception

The withdrawal of USAID funding enacted by Donald Trump is having an immediate impact in poor countries – with reproductive health, HIV and TB treatment all being halted. Alicja Hagopian reports

Politics

4 d. ago Hundreds march to Cook Islands’ parliament to oppose deal with China

Protests erupt over Cook Islands’ new strategic partnership with China, raising concerns about ties with New Zealand

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