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War is the perfect petri dish for disease. In this first episode of Battle Lines: Global Health Security, @ascottgeddes & @venetiarainey ask whether the next pandemic could originate on a battlefield. youtube.com/watch?v=9YQEOU… Featuring interviews with @AmeshAA & @lfspinney Tune in every Wednesday to watch or listen on YouTube and podcasting platforms.

The Ugandan city where the race for a new Ebola vaccine will be won or lost More than 100 volunteers in Masaka are set to receive an experimental shot against the rare Bundibugyo species of Ebola Dispatch by @maeve_cullinan - full story below ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

(1/4) Masaka, Uganda, is known mostly for its coffee beans, which have a curiously caramel-chocolate flavour. Soon it will be known for something different: it is here where the UK’s bid to be first to produce a new Ebola vaccine will be won or lost #comment" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

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1/The son of a Palestinian doctor held without charge for more than 550 days fears he will die in Israeli custody – amid a dishonest social media campaign to paint his father as a terrorist @Liliasebouai and @PaulNuki, delve into some of the questions surrounding his detention… telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

How Morocco is leading Africa’s solar energy revolution The last great undeveloped continent has always relied on others for its energy. But now it could become a solar and renewables super-power Dispatch by @benjaminmarlow and @SimonTownsley 👇 telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Two to three new viruses capable of infecting humans have been discovered every year, a major new study from three universities has found. The study, which analysed historical medical papers over the last 100 years, found that at least 239 species of human-infecting viruses have been found since the turn of the 20th century. Mark Woolhouse, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh’s Usher Institute, said: “New human-infective viruses are being discovered all the time. Any one of them could be Disease X – the cause of the next pandemic. “Our database will help researchers characterise the threat and prepare for it.” Read the full article: telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Pakistan has launched an investigation after dozens of children were infected with HIV at a government-run hospital, amid allegations that contaminated syringes were reused. At least 78 children contracted HIV at Kulsoom Bai Valika Hospital in Pakistan’s southeastern Sindh province, said Saeed Ghani, the provincial labour minister. Strict action would be taken against anyone found responsible, he said. “We assure the families of the affected children that the Sindh government will not leave them alone to face this ordeal. We will ensure their complete medical treatment and provide every possible support,” he said. “There must have been negligence on someone’s part”. Full story here: telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

A toddler has died in an outbreak of Marburg disease, a close cousin of the Ebola virus, in Uganda. The victim was a one-year-old child who died just over a week ago in the district of Kyegegwa, in Uganda’s western region, the country’s Health Minister, Dr Chris Baryomunsi, told The Telegraph. Dr Baryomunsi said the child was the only confirmed case and claimed there was “no active transmission” of the viral haemorrhagic fever. However, a well-placed source, speaking to The Telegraph on condition of anonymity, said there have now been at least three cases after the toddler passed the virus to two family members.] The source said the outbreak was probably the result of a new “spillover” event caused by contact with the droppings or saliva of an infected bat, Marburg’s natural reservoir. Full story here: telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Officials in Gaza are taking bribes to place healthy people on medical evacuation lists, the families of ill and injured Gazans have claimed. According to the allegations, which have not been proved, bribery within the strip is corrupting the way in which sick and injured patients are prioritised for receiving medical help overseas. In some cases, healthy people are said to have acquired forged medical papers by saying they require evacuation on medical grounds. In others, officials are said to have pushed genuinely sick patients up the queue in return for bribes. The allegations are directed at unnamed individuals working within the Hamas-controlled Ministry for Health, which is responsible for compiling evacuation lists, as well as local representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Gaza. The WHO says it and its staff have “no influence” over the prioritisation of patients approved for medical evacuation in Gaza, with its role “limited to coordination and logistical support”. Full story here: #comment" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

The US embassy in Uganda has issued an alert over reports of a potential Marburg case in the country’s western region. “The US Embassy is aware there are reports of a potential case of Marburg Virus Disease, a viral haemorrhagic fever, in western Uganda,” it said in the advisory, which was published on Monday. As of Tuesday, Uganda’s health ministry had yet to release any information on the suspected outbreak, which remains unconfirmed. Uganda has extensive experience with dealing with outbreaks of haemorrhagic fevers and last reported a Marburg outbreak in 2017, when there were four cases and three deaths. Full story here: telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Sudanese rebels are being trained to use drones, machine guns and rocket launchers in a network of secret camps in Libya Investigation by @LHreports, @sudanwarmonitor and Evident Media is the latest evidence that the conflict has evolved into a proxy war telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Sudanese rebel fighters are being trained to use drones, heavy machine guns and rocket launchers in a network of secret camps in Libya, investigators have claimed @LHreports, a Dutch non-profit media organisation, alleged that southern Libya has become a key hub for training and supplying the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group that has been repeatedly accused of war crimes and genocide in Sudan’s civil war Drawing on interviews with RSF defectors and Libyan National Army (LNA) officers, and open source analysis, the investigators detail how Sudanese fighters receive training from UAE-backed Colombian mercenaries and Libyan soldiers The video investigation, which was produced in conjunction with @sudanwarmonitor, a group of journalists and open-source researchers, and Evident Media, a non-profit visual investigation organisation, is the latest contribution to a growing body of evidence that the conflict in Sudan has evolved into a regional proxy war Full story here: telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

A looming paramilitary assault on the Sudanese city of El Obeid threatens to deepen the country’s “already catastrophic hunger crisis”, the UN’s World Food Programme has warned telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…