Netherlands authorities have coordinated the medical evacuation of three people from the MV Hondius, including one Dutch passenger and two crew members, a Dutch and a British national. The patients, suspected of having a hantavirus infection, are...
A luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak and marooned for days off the coast of Cape Verde with close to 150 people on board was due to head to Spain, while South Africa confirmed it identified among the victims a strain of the...
Google Chrome may be taking up more of your storage than expected thanks to a large on-device AI model file that, in some cases, is being automatically downloaded to the browser's system folders. Users who have noticed unexplained drops in their...
Spain has given the green light for the cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak to dock on the island of Tenerife. However, officials in the Canary Islands have objected to the move. DW has the latest.
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South African health authorities said Wednesday they have identified the Andes strain of hantavirus, which may be passed from person to person, in two passengers who were on the cruise ship that has an outbreak of the rare infection.
The Canary Islands reject the Spanish government's decision to transfer a cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak to their territory, as health authorities coordinate a medical evacuation from Cabo Verde. South African authorities have detected the...
François Picard is pleased to welcome Lawrence Gostin, Author, Director of the WHO Center on Global Health Law. His analysis highlights the legal and ethical dilemmas surrounding a cruise ship carrying suspected hantavirus cases off the coast of...
The Spanish government accepted the urgent transfer to the Canary Islands of the doctor from the MV Hondius, in serious condition due to hantavirus, as part of the operation coordinated with the WHO and the EU to treat the ship, which is currently...
François Picard is pleased to welcome Lawrence Gostin, Author, Director of the WHO Center on Global Health Law. His analysis highlights the legal and ethical dilemmas surrounding a cruise ship carrying suspected hantavirus cases off the coast of...
A short burst of immunotherapy before surgery is delivering surprisingly powerful results for a specific type of colorectal cancer. Patients in a UK-led trial who received just nine weeks of pembrolizumab prior to surgery have remained cancer-free...
A major 10-year clinical trial is turning one of the world’s most common knee surgeries on its head. Researchers found that trimming a damaged meniscus—a procedure long believed to relieve pain—offers no real benefit over placebo surgery. Even more...
Two critically ill crew from the MV Hondius will be evacuated via Cape Verde to the Netherlands after a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has killed three. The quarantined vessel, anchored off Praia, is expected to resume its journey to the Canary...
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Christophe Fouquet, who became ASML's CEO in 2024 after more than a decade at the company, sat down with this editor on the rooftop deck of his Beverly Hills hotel Tuesday morning ahead of his appearance at the Milken Institute Global Conference...
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Donald Trump has intensified his criticism of Pope Leo XIV, who responded to the US president's broadside on Tuesday by reaffirming his mission to preach peace while accepting public scrutiny. The verbal stoush between the two men comes days before...
The US and Israel's war on Iran is also hitting migrant workers who live in the Gulf region, often accepting harsh controls and little in the way of rights in return for the kind of pay they'd never see back home. Now though, they have a choice -...
Health authorities raced Tuesday to find a port for a cruise ship battling a hantavirus outbreak, as it remained off the West African coast with passengers isolating after three people died. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization said it suspects...
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Rates of cancer, birth defects and cognitive disorders are on the rise among French children. The use of pesticides has been recognised as a major risk to mothers and their babies, including in utero. Since 2020, victims of pesticides can request...
The German company that pioneered one of the first mRNA coronavirus vaccines is halting production, handing the reins to partner Pfizer. BioNTech is restructuring to focus on research and illnesses like cancer.
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