On Monday, the Palestinian territory’s Civil Defence agency said health workers had uncovered more than 200 bodies of people killed and buried at Nasser hospital, which was besieged by Israeli troops last month.

Median height for 18-year-olds of both sexes up by about 2cm, with weight increases also recorded, researchers say.

Cows and goats – previously thought not susceptible – have joined the list of infected animals, and a US farmworker has caught the disease after exposure to cattle.

Scientist said results offered hope of stopping disease transmission to people: ‘The biocontrol method is based on findings from nature and does not require medical interventions for humans, such as vaccines and specific treatment’.

The World Health Organization voiced alarm at the growing spread of H5N1 bird flu to new species, including humans, who face an ‘extraordinarily high’ mortality rate.

The World Health Organisation is providing basic health information through a humanlike avatar, but the AI-driven bot does not always know what it is talking about.

US officials will offer support, primarily in Asia and Africa, to help identify and respond to diseases like Covid-19, to prevent future outbreaks.

Dozens of infants have died from the highly contagious yet preventable respiratory tract infection in the Philippines already this year – and the outbreak is only expected to spread.

Japanese health authorities have attempted to play down global media reports of a spike in cases of the rare but frequently deadly streptococcal toxic-shock syndrome.

World Health Organization staff who gained access to the devastated facility described horrifying scenes of bodies only partially buried, with their limbs sticking out, and the stench of decomposing corpses.

Medical Council says Joseph Kam has not shown remorse over HK$4.25 million fraud case in which World Health Organization, two overseas institutions were deceived.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted on Tuesday that its armed forces “unintentionally” killed seven aid workers in an air strike in Gaza.

Infected person is recovering from virus after being exposed to dairy cattle. Disease has sickened herds in Texas, Kansas and other states in recent days.

The Israeli military said it struck a command centre of the Islamic Jihad militant group and claimed the hospital’s functioning was not affected.

In an interview with The New York Times, Amit Soussana said she was forced at gunpoint to perform a sex act on her man guard. Hamas has repeatedly rejected accusations of sexual violence.

Shelling and clashes have been reported in south Gaza’s main city of Khan Younis and elsewhere, with 12 members of the same family among those killed overnight.

It was thought around half the people in China were infected but new study cites a much lower figure.

Tobacco and Alcohol Control Office staff catch 14-year-old distributing ‘huge stack’ of smoking advertising leaflets from his backpack.

Deduction on assisted reproductive services expected to cover services obtained from both public and private clinics, while ones undergone outside city not eligible.

Obesity is so prevalent it has become more common than being underweight in most nations.

Three city measles cases logged in January and February, the same number recorded in each of the previous two years.

Israeli forces in war-torn Gaza opened fire on Palestinians scrambling for food aid in a chaotic melee on Thursday that the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said killed more than 100 people.

Israeli prime minister claimed total victory in Gaza would come within weeks once the offensive begins.

Doctors complain of a drug shortage amid a spike in respiratory diseases caused by multiple pathogens.

About 410,000 people, or 5.6 per cent of Hong Kong’s population, estimated to have been infected with virus.