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Turn it down! Millennials' music habit puts their hearing at risk - UN
Already 466 million people worldwide have debilitating hearing loss, up from 360 million in 2010 and the figure is expected to nearly double to 900 million, says WHO.
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DR Congo Ebola death toll passes 500: health ministry
Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga said that, for the first time, a vaccination programme had protected 76,425 people and prevented "thousands" of deaths.
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WHO looks at standards in 'uncharted water' of gene editing
The Chinese government last Thursday ordered a temporary halt to research activities for people involved in the editing of human genes, after a Chinese scientist said he had edited the genes of twin babies.
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DR Congo Ebola response efforts resume in Beni after clashes: WHO
DR Congo's health ministry had announced a suspension of operations in Beni after deadly clashes erupted Friday just a 'few metres' from a local emergency centre and the hotels of several response teams.
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Death toll from DRC cholera outbreak at 857
Health authorities have so far recorded 25,170 cases, occurring in 21 out of the country's 26 provinces, the WHO's office in the DRC said.
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Polluted Delhi air akin to death sentence, say doctors
Smog is blamed for the deaths of more than one million Indians every year and Delhi, which on Monday had emergency pollution levels more than 35 times WHO safe limit, has the worst air of any global capital.
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Yellow fever kills 10 in Ethiopia, WHO ships 1.45 million vaccines
The outbreak was confirmed in Wolaita Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region and has been traced back to a patient who fell ill on 21 August It has caused 35 suspected cases of the disease.
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WHO says air pollution kills 600,000 children every year
Air pollution can also cause childhood cancers, asthma, poor lung function, pneumonia and other types of acute lower respiratory infection, the report said.
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Battles begin to turn in long war on TB
Tuberculosis, a curable and preventable lung infection, killed more than 1.6 million people last year.
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WHO opts not to declare latest Ebola outbreak an international emergency
It’s nevertheless warning nine of the Congo’s eleven neighbours that they are at high risk of the deadly haemorrhagic disease spreading across the borders.
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WHO to meet on Congo's Ebola outbreak as toll soars
Congo’s health ministry said on Monday that in the past week alone 33 people were confirmed with Ebola virus and 24 of them died.
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Ebola response tightens in eastern DRC as 7 new cases confirmed: health ministry
Ebola has spread to Beni, a city of several hundred thousand people where scores of people have been confirmed infected.
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Zimbabwe launches cholera vaccination drive after 49 deaths: WHO
The cholera outbreak, first detected outside Harare on September 5, prompted the health ministry to declare an emergency in the capital.
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WHO: Congo Ebola outbreak could worsen rapidly
At least 100 people have died in the outbreak, out of 150 cases in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
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Zim govt declares cholera outbreak an emergency, police ban public gatherings
The ban was announced a day after the government declared the disease an emergency.
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Cancer deaths rise to 9.6 million as populations grow and age
The World Health Organisation's International Agency for Research on Cancer said the global cancer burden would rise to an estimated 18.1 million new cases this year.
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China's small farmers pose huge challenge in swine fever battle
In any case, the disease was only present in the south, added Wang. In fact, the first outbreak was reported in Shenyang, also in the northeast.
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Ebola control measures seem to be working in Congo, WHO says
The outbreak has so far killed 77 people in Congo’s North Kivu and Ituri provinces among 116 cases. Fifteen of the cases were health workers.
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[LISTEN] Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder vs sex addiction
Sexologist Dr Eve explains the differences between compulsive sexual behaviour disorder and sex addiction.
