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Is antibiotic resistance an increasing threat to our health?

November 18 marks European Antibiotics Awareness Day. Here’s what you need to know about them and what impact our bodies' resistance to them could have.

18/11/2021

Denmark

Denmark begins excavating buried mink over pollution fears

All of the country's 17 million mink population were culled last year over risk of spreading a COVID-19 variant.

14/05/2021

Austria

Austrian man guilty of deliberately infecting ex-wife with COVID-19

The man had tried to infect his former partner while they shared a home as their divorce proceedings were being completed.

11/05/2021

Green News

Could the cure for COVID-19 lie at the bottom of the ocean?

Marine researchers are pushing for more attention to be paid to the ocean's medicinal potential.

22/02/2021

Slovenia

Slovenia declares epidemic amid surge in COVID-19 infections

Slovenia has officially declared an epidemic amid a major surge in COVID-19 infections, and new government measures will be imposed.

19/10/2020

USA

Man reinfected with COVID-19 develops 'more severe' case second time

A 25-year-old was infected with two different variants of coronavirus within six weeks and developed pneumonia the second time.

13/10/2020

France

Mosquitoes to be bred on large scale to study infectious diseases

InnovaFeed will partner in this project with the World Mosquito Program (WMP). who began fighting the transmission of such viruses to humans ten years ago by infecting female mosquitos with bacteria.

26/08/2020

World News

'Side with science' says WHO as global coronavirus deaths pass 500,000

The WHO warned against a "significant resurgence" in cases in several European states, while US and India set new coronavirus infection records.

27/06/2020

World News

Millions at risk of tuberculosis amid COVID-19 lockdowns, warns study

As the world focuses on the coronavirus pandemic more cases of tuberculosis are going undetected and untreated, according to new research.

07/05/2020

Italy

Analysis: Prepare for the second wave of COVID-19

Many fear what the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson talked about upon returning to work this morning: a second wave. And he is right to be concerned, Euronews' political editor Darren McCaffrey writes.

27/04/2020

Italy

Italians who fled to south as north locked down spark new fears

Many student and professionals in Northern Italy headed south as the regions began to lock down. They may have gone to be with their families, but at what cost to other regions?

20/03/2020

World News

Euroviews. Europe is woefully unprepared for future deadly disease outbreaks ǀ View

New research by the Economist Intelligence Unit has identified severe weaknesses in countries’ abilities to prevent, detect and respond to significant disease outbreaks.

16/12/2019

Brazil

Oil tanker owner denies causing massive spill off Brazil's coast

Delta Tankers said the Bouboulina left Venezuela in July, bound for Malaysia, and that the trip ended "uneventfully."

02/11/2019

Denmark

Hospital in Denmark confirms Zika case - patient recovering

A Danish man has tested positive for the mosquito-transmitted Zika virus, but is expected to recover soon, health officials said. The man, who is in

27/01/2016

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South Korean outbreak

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