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Temperature and visual screening will start on Friday at the island nation’s Changi and Seletar airports, as well as sea checkpoints, for inbound travellers and crew arriving from places where there’s risk of mpox outbreaks, the Ministry of Health said in a statement. Travellers who have fever, rash or symptoms compatible with mpox will be referred for medical assessment, it said.
Ticks, parasitic arachnids that inhabit outdoor spaces and tend to be active from spring to fall, are the source of an infection called severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS). The National Institute of Infectious Diseases says roughly 90 people, mainly in western Japan, have been infected with the virus this year.
Eli Lilly's highly popular weight loss drug reduced the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by 94% in obese or overweight adults with prediabetes compared with a placebo, according to initial results from a long-term study released Tuesday.
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court on Tuesday set up a national task force of doctors who will make recommendations on safety of health care workers at their workplaces, days after the rape and killing of a trainee doctor that sparked outrage and nationwide protests.
“Many times I am unable to take their call because I am attending to patients. My mother gets really upset and has often asked me to quit the job,” she said, adding that security for trainee doctors had barely improved despite outrage among the medical fraternity.
The Philippines reported its first case this year of mpox, previously known as monkeypox, on Monday, just days after the World Health Organization declared the disease a global health emergency.
NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of doctors protested near India’s Health Ministry on Monday to demand stringent laws to protect health care workers from violence and to seek justice for their colleague who was raped and killed at a state-run hospital.
The Philippines has detected a new case of the mpox virus in the country, the first since December last year, its health department said on Monday, adding it was awaiting test results before being able to determine the strain.