Experts with the World Health Organization issued a somber warning on Monday: The next pandemic to strike humanity could be even more devastating than covid-19 has been, especially if we dont learn our lessons this time around. The warning came from Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHOs health emergencies…

Over the weekend, a particularly awful pair of words started trending on social media: super gonorrhea. Thats because the World Health Organization recently warned that the pandemic is helping fuel the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including the bacteria that cause gonorrhea. Unfortunately, the situation is only likely to get worse.…

(CNN)We teach kids not to do it. It’s unsanitary. It’s just plain gross to see. Let’s be real, though. Most of us pick our noses some 91% according to the only (small and old) study that seems to have ever been done on the subject, perhaps revealing how little even…

By Reuters Staff FILE PHOTO: Gravediggers wearing protective suits bury the coffin of a man who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during Christmas Day at Vila Formosa cemetery, Brazil’s biggest cemetery, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, December 25, 2020. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil has registered 344…

By Reuters Staff FILE PHOTO: Gravediggers wearing protective suits bury the coffin of a man who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during Christmas Day at Vila Formosa cemetery, Brazil’s biggest cemetery, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, December 25, 2020. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil has registered 344…

By Reuters Staff FILE PHOTO: Gravediggers wearing protective suits bury the coffin of a man who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during Christmas Day at Vila Formosa cemetery, Brazil’s biggest cemetery, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, December 25, 2020. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil has registered 344…

By Reuters Staff Dr. Massimo Vajani 67, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine against the coronavirus disease at Civico hospital, where the country’s first patient was diagnosed, in Codogno, Italy, December 27, 2020. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo/Pool ROME (Reuters) – Italy reported 298 coronavirus-related deaths on Sunday up from 261 the day…

By Reuters Staff Dr. Massimo Vajani 67, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine against the coronavirus disease at Civico hospital, where the country’s first patient was diagnosed, in Codogno, Italy, December 27, 2020. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo/Pool ROME (Reuters) – Italy reported 298 coronavirus-related deaths on Sunday up from 261 the day…

By Reuters Staff ROME, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Italy reported 261 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday against 459 the day before, the health ministry said. The daily tally of new infections increased by 10,407 from 19,037 the day before, taking the total number of cases since Italys epidemic began to 2,010,037.…