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Maeve Cullinan

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Global Health Security journalist at The Telegraph. Contact: maeve.cullinan@telegraph.co.uk Covering infectious diseases, viruses, bacteria, parasites, AMR, vaccines, climate change, conflict, human rights, reproductive rights, etc.

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Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry @abpi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Huge congratulations to @maevecullinan.bsky.social, winner of the Newcomer of the Year award at the @absw.bsky.social Awards yesterday! 🏆 👏 ⭐ The award was presented by Jack Neill-Hall, Director of Media and Communications at the ABPI. We're proud to support high-quality science journalism.

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ABSW @absw.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

🏆#ABSWawards 2025 👉Newcomer of the Year Thanks to @abpi.bsky.social 🎉Maeve Cullinan, Global Health Security reporter, The Daily Telegraph @maevecullinan.bsky.social @telegraphnews.bsky.social 👏👏👏Congratulations!!!

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Caroline Steel @carolinesteel.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

How do you get into science journalism? This morning I was on a panel chatting about my career with @maevecullinan.bsky.social, @jasperjackson.bsky.social and @astrojonny.bsky.social. Exciting to see so many future science journalists in the audience. @absw.bsky.social

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

UK ‘not ready’ for major animal disease outbreak National Audit Office finds significant shortcomings in contingency planning for diseases like bird flu and foot and mouth @maeve_cullinan reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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UK ‘not ready’ for major animal disease outbreak

National Audit Office finds significant shortcomings in contingency planning for diseases like bird flu and foot and mouth

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

RFK-backed ostrich farm fighting H5N1 cull boasted of turning birds into pet food The US Health Secretary has been seduced by claims of herd immunity and wants to bring the condemned animals to Florida @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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RFK-backed ostrich farm fighting H5N1 cull boasted of turning birds into pet food

The US Health Secretary has been seduced by claims of herd immunity and wants to bring the condemned animals to Florida

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Sarah Newey @sneweyy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The agreement with Moderna was intended to strengthen America's pandemic preparedness, by diversifying its emergency H5N1 vaccine stocks: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... @maevecullinan.bsky.social @telglobalhealth.bsky.social

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Trump administration cancels multi-million dollar bird flu vaccine contract with Moderna

Pharmaceutical giant announces termination of the $766m contract originally awarded by the Biden administration

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Rwanda-backed rebels accused of ‘war crimes’ in assault on eastern DRC M23 group killed, tortured and ‘disappeared’ civilians in the cities of Goma and Bukuva, according to Amnesty International investigators www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Rwanda-backed rebels accused of ‘war crimes’ in assault on eastern DRC

M23 group killed, tortured and ‘disappeared’ civilians in the cities of Goma and Bukuva, according to Amnesty International investigators

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ABSW @absw.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🆕Newcomer of the Year #ABSWawards #finalists Thanks to @abpi.bsky.social 👉 @sophieberdugo.bsky.social @newscientist.com 🔗zurl.co/DLH8A 👉 @maevecullinan.bsky.social @dailytelegraphnews.bsky.social 🔗zurl.co/nwFDL 👉 @francesjones.bsky.social Research Professional News 🔗 zurl.co/gqWWJ zurl.co/gWdMb

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Thrilled to be nominated for Newcomer of the Year for the Association of British Science Writers 2025 awards. @absw.bsky.social thank you!! absw.org.uk/pages/meet-t...

Meet the Finalists 2025 | Association of British Science Writers

Find out who has made it to the finals in this year's ABSW Awards

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

TikTok brings ‘raw milk’ craze to Britain – despite it being 45 times more likely to put you in hospital Thousands of videos on social media are promoting unpasteurised milk as H5N1 bird flu spreads in British farms ✍️ @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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TikTok brings ‘raw milk’ craze to Britain – despite it being 45 times more likely to put you in hospital

Thousands of videos on social media are promoting the consumption of unpasteurised milk as H5N1 bird flu spreads in British farms

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Could a new malaria jab really finish off the disease? Researchers at GSK have high hopes Exclusive: Next-generation jab could be three times as effective as the best currently available @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Could a new malaria jab really finish off the disease? Researchers at GSK have high hopes

Exclusive: Next-generation jab could be three times as effective as the best currently available

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Paul Nuki @paulnuki.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The latest iteration of the UK mpox strategy is out. It looks good and solid to me. www.gov.uk/government/p... But as with evolving pathogens, there is stuff we know we don't know:

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Scientists think they know what animal carries mpox. It’s not a monkey A chance discovery led to the identification of a possible natural reservoir for the virus formerly known as monkeypox @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Scientists think they know what animal carries mpox. It’s not a monkey

A chance discovery led to the identification of a possible natural reservoir for the virus formerly known as monkeypox

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Children caught in crossfire of rebel assault overwhelm Goma hospital. City’s only functioning paediatric surgery unit inundated with patients wounded by gunfire and shrapnel, DRC doctors say. @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports - free to read🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Children caught in crossfire of rebel assault overwhelm Goma hospital

City’s only functioning paediatric surgery unit inundated with patients wounded by gunfire and shrapnel, DRC doctors say

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Lilia Sebouai @liliasebouai.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Eyewitnesses told me about a previously undocumented mass-rape carried out by the RSF in Sudan’s Nuba mountains. Among the victims was a disabled four-year-old boy. Full story 🔗 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Children as young as four among victims of gang-rape and ethnic cleansing in war-torn Sudan

At least 19 people raped in previously undocumented war crime, eye witnesses tell The Telegraph

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

M23 rebels 'execute' children in assault on major DRC city Rwanda-backed insurgent group seizes Bukavu, plunging country deeper into crisis Free to read www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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M23 rebels ‘execute’ children in assault on major DRC city

Rwanda-backed insurgent group seizes Bukavu, plunging country deeper into crisis

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Dan and Babs Izzett kept their diagnosis secret for decades before dedicating themselves to helping fellow sufferers. @maevecullinan.bsky.social met the couple fighting leprosy stigma from the West Country. Free to read 🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Meet the ‘lepers’ of Somerset - battling stigma from the West Country

Dan and Babs Izzett kept their diagnosis secret for decades before dedicating themselves to helping fellow sufferers

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A trial at Oxford is just one of the dozens across the world grinding to a halt after the USAID funding freeze. The study is testing a cutting-edge malaria vaccine - the RH5.2-VLP - for the first time. At least 40 people had been injected with the new jab before the freeze, it is understood.

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Trump has reinstated the ‘global gag rule’ on abortion aid – this time, it’s different The expanded Mexico City Policy threatens billions of dollars in US funding as Africa reels from aid pause @maevecullinan.bsky.social and @benfarmerdt.bsky.social report www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Trump has reinstated the ‘global gag rule’ on abortion aid – this time, it’s different

President’s far-reaching Mexico City Policy threatens billions of dollars in US humanitarian funding as Africa reels from aid pause

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

🚨Uganda confirms Ebola outbreak after death of nurse in capital The case marks the first since the outbreak of Ebola in Uganda three years ago @maevecullinan.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Uganda confirms Ebola outbreak after death of nurse in capital

The case marks the first since the outbreak of Ebola in Uganda three years ago

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Trump has reinstated the ‘global gag rule’ on abortion aid – this time, it’s different President’s far-reaching Mexico City Policy threatens billions of dollars in US humanitarian funding as Africa reels from aid pause @benfarmerdt.bsky.social and I report www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Trump has reinstated the ‘global gag rule’ on abortion aid – this time, it’s different

President’s far-reaching Mexico City Policy threatens billions of dollars in US humanitarian funding as Africa reels from aid pause

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John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The @telegraphnews.bsky.social does a terrific job of putting the #lafires in global context. Brava, @maevecullinan.bsky.social! www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... #wildfire

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Fire weather: How extreme wildfires became the rule – not the exception

Unusually intense fires have struck across the world almost every year for the last decade

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A programme of evacuation flights have quietly ferried more than 2,200 seriously injured Gazans and their relatives to safety in the Gulf. Fantastic photo essay by Paolo Pellegrin and @liliasebouai.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Paolo Pellegrin photographs: Inside the rescue mission plucking Gaza’s wounded from a war zone

A programme of evacuation flights have quietly ferried more than 2,200 seriously injured Gazans and their relatives to safety in the Gulf

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Follow the Global Health Security team here: go.bsky.app/5eQSTbx Covering everything from infectious diseases, viruses, bacteria, fungi, NCDs, climate change, conflict, reproductive rights, food security, terror and war.

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🚨 Mild H5N1 cases have been perplexing scientists – now they might have an answer The variant circulating in America appears to be less lethal and could be triggering different responses from the immune system @maevecullinan.bsky.social has more www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Mild H5N1 cases have been perplexing scientists – now they might have an answer

The variant circulating in America appears to be less lethal and could be triggering different responses from the immune system

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Mongolian horses are contracting H5N1 under the radar, the first time the virus has been detected in equines - worrying for the US, where horses regularly interact with cattle on farms, etc... www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Mongolian horses are contracting H5N1 under the radar, says new study

Scientists find ‘conclusive’ evidence of spillover infections from wild birds in the east Asian country – home to five million horses

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

First death from H5N1 recorded in the US. The man, from Louisiana, was hospitalised in mid December. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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US reports first human H5N1 death

The man had underlying health conditions and is believed to have caught the virus directly from birds

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A patient has been hospitalised with the first 'severe' case of H5N1 in the US. Important to note this is a different strain from the one circulating in cattle, the same that put a Canadian teenager in the ICU two months ago... www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Patient hospitalised with H5N1 in US as outbreak continues to grow

Person is the second in North America to require hospital treatment with ‘severe’ symptoms in recent months

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Are cats the new pigs? New evidence suggests cats could act as 'mixing vessels' for avian & human flus and create novel, more dangerous strains. Ramifications in a time of H5N1 is worrying... Read below, no paywall www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Why cats are the new pigs – and could spark the next pandemic

Scientists say that, like pigs, they are a ‘mixing vessel’ that could enable H5N1 bird flu to mutate and spread to humans

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The mystery outbreak in Panzi, DRC has finally been identified as a severe form of malaria, made worse by severe malnutrition in the area. A WHO team was dispatched just over a week ago to try and identify the source. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Mystery DRC outbreak officially identified as malaria

The disease has sickened 500 and killed at least 149 since it began spreading several weeks ago in the remote province of Kwango

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Infectious Disease Tracker @hmpxvt.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

⚠️ BREAKING: The "mystery outbreak" in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been identified as caused by severe malaria, according to Reuters.

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Why farms, not wet markets, are the pandemic threat you should be worrying about. Many modern-day outbreaks have originated from factory farming. From the virus’s perspective, it’s a numbers game. ✍️ @maevecullinan.bsky.social and @sneweyy.bsky.social report. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Why farms, not wet markets, are the pandemic threat you should be worrying about

Many modern-day outbreaks have originated from factory farming. From the virus’s perspective, it’s a numbers game

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Why farms, not wet markets, will cause the next pandemic @sneweyy.bsky.social and I look at 9 disease outbreaks from the last 100 years - from the Spanish Flu to H5N1 - and how they can all be attributed back to industrial farming practices.... Free to read 🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Why farms, not wet markets, are the pandemic threat you should be worrying about

Many modern-day outbreaks have originated from factory farming. From the virus’s perspective, it’s a numbers game

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Birds, foxes, mink, seals, cats, cattle - and now a cheetah and mountain lion - H5N1 is continuing to spread like wildfire amongst animals, and increasingly humans. Read below

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Into the unknown: Crack WHO team journeys deep into the Congo to identify mystery killer. Their urgent mission is to find out what is killing swathes of people in one of the most remote parts of the world. Free to read 🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Into the unknown: Crack WHO team journeys deep into the Congo to identify mystery killer

Their urgent mission is to find out what is killing swathes of people in one of the most remote parts of the world

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

While we don't yet know the cause of the possible Disease X outbreak in DRC, I have to commend DRC and Africa CDC for making these epidemiological details publicly available. Note, US health authorities have not released this level of demographic information on H5N1 cases...

Epidemiological data on 376 cases (79 deaths) due to Disease X in DRC.

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Highly concerning. The WHO will have boots on the ground over the weekend to collect samples & carry out analysis. Any theories? DMs are open www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Experts scrambled as mystery outbreak kills 79 in remote part of the Congo

Specialists rule out coronavirus but say that the disease affects the respiratory system, with symptoms particularly acute in young people

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Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A family travelled from London to Birmingham for school half term. They unknowingly brought an unwelcome guest - the highly contagious measles - and soon it spread around the city like wildfire. Read how public health authorities got the outbreak under control: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Measles ‘patient zero’ came from London – but it was Birmingham that took the hit

A family of four who visited the West Midlands unwittingly triggered one of the most severe measles outbreaks in Britain for almost a decade

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

UKHSA has procured 5 million doses of H5 influenza vax, which they said they will use if H5N1 begins to spread between humans… www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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UK buys 5 million vaccine shots to prepare for H5N1 pandemic

The jabs are being stockpiled in case H5N1 adapts to spread between humans

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Oxitec, a UK biotech company, has rolled out their 'friendly' genetically modified mozzies across Brazil, and through trials in places like the US, India, and Panama to fight dengue fever. Free to read! www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Grow your own genetically modified mosquito colony – just add water

As conventional methods to control mosquito populations become less effective, a controversial experiment yields promising results

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

RFK accused the FDA of “suppressing” raw milk on X last month. “FDA’s war on public health is about to end,” he said. All this as H5N1 continues to boom in California (402 herds infected) - the US's largest dairy producer... www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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H5N1 found in raw milk – the same drink promoted by America’s next health chief

Robert Kennedy Junior and Gwyneth Paltrow are big fans of unpasteurised milk and have continued to promote it despite the health risks

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Live H5N1 has now been detected in raw milk sold in Fresno, California. In May, I interviewed the owner of a small raw milk business in the same area. He'd received multiple calls from people requesting samples of H5N1-infected milk, believing it would provide immunity against the virus, worrying...

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Great piece in nature this week www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why a teenager’s bird-flu infection is ringing alarm bells for scientists

A strain of avian influenza is showing signs of adaptation to human hosts, but there is no evidence that it can transmit from person to person.

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Paul Nuki @paulnuki.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

There is a laboratory in Tanzania testing mosquito repellent sandals… www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Africa’s ‘Q’ cooks up arsenal of gadgets to fight malaria

Visiting a British-backed lab in rural Tanzania felt like stepping into the basement of MI6

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Reported from ESCAIDE, Stockholm this past week. Great convo with Dr Angeliki Melidou, principal expert in respiratory viruses at ECDC on Europe’s new winter measures to stay vigilant on #H5N1 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Europe tightens H5N1 surveillance as winter flu season looms

The risk of H5N1 combining with other influenza viruses is predicted to soar by five-fold this winter

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The UK is considering a ring vaccination strategy if more cases of Clade 1b mpox emerge, a well placed government source told The Telegraph this week Read below www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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UK considering ring-vaccination campaign to tackle new mpox outbreak if more cases emerge

Four cases of the fast-moving clade 1b variant are have been reported and health authorities will move quickly to vaccinate if more emerge

Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Death by stigma: The HIV patients in Malawi refusing life-saving medication. It took decades to make HIV drugs readily available in Africa – but now they are being left in the street... Free to read www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Death by stigma: The HIV patients in Malawi refusing life-saving medication

It took decades to make HIV drugs readily available in Africa – but now they are being left in the street