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The World Health Organisation in Africa has issued a statement about the 'mystery illness'.

Symptoms of 'mystery illness' that has caused more than 50 deaths

Excessive screen time has been found to have a big impact on kid's health.

Screen time: four ways it impacts children's health

People celebrate along a street at Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip,as news spread that a ceasefire and hostage release deal had been reached between Israel and Hamas.

15 months of fighting in Gaza to stop tomorrow after deal approved

Cases of HMPV have been surging in China.

HMPV symptoms to look out for - and should we be worried?

Rwanda declared an outbreak of the Marburg virus on September 27.

The symptoms of deadly Marburg virus as suspected case found in Europe

Public health authorities in Rwanda are currently tackling an outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease.

Marburg Virus Disease: Travel warning as 10 die from incurable virus

Teenage boys in Scotland top 'worst' in world list for computer games

A woman infected with Mpox shows her arms at the Kamenge University Hospital's Mpox treatment centre in Bujumbura on August 22, 2024. (Photo: TCHANDROU NITANGA/AFP via Getty Images)

How worried should we be about Mpox - is it the new Covid?

Monkeypox pathogen. Credit: UKHS

Mpox 2024 mapped: All the countries with confirmed cases

A doctor checks on a patient with sores caused by an mpox infection in 2022. (Photo by ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP via Getty Images)

Will people have to isolate if they catch mpox?

The WHO has declared a global health emergency over an outbreak of mpox in Africa. (Photo: ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP via Getty Images)

The UK areas with highest mpox cases in the last outbreak

SCOTTISH SCIENTISTS TO SPEND TWO YEARS STUDYING MRSA ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE

FLuQE is a new Covid variant that has been driving new cases. (Photo: Pexels, CDC)

KP3 Covid symptoms as cases of new variant FLuQE rise

Schoolchildren know more about vitamins than adults do, survey finds

Girls in the UK are smoking and vaping more than boys, a major study across 44 countries has found.

Scotland's youth vaping problem laid bare in landmark international study

The future looks bleak if Scotland becomes a 'vape head' nation (Picture: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Scotland is turning into a vaping nation. It must become a sporting one instead

People fill jerry cans with water at a Red Cross water distribution in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. More than 20 million Ethiopians are in need of food aid, according to estimates from the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).

Ethiopia: Funding target not reached as charities warn of impending famine

A member of staff takes a sample from a member of the public at a Covid-19 Test Site at Edinburgh Airport. Picture: PA

Scottish Government ‘dismissed’ concerns over airborne Covid transmission

Nearly 1.5 million displaced Palestinians are trapped in Rafah - more than half of Gaza's population.

What is the US proposal for a Gaza ceasefire put to the UN Security Council?

Cases of swine flu, which caused a global pandemic in 2009, have been detected in Spain and Brazil.

WHO issues warning over swine flu strain which caused pandemic

A Covid-19 vaccine is administered

Call for teachers to be offered a Covid vaccine

Family members prepare traditional unleavened bread in their destroyed house in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. The World Health Organisation has warned 93 per cent of the population have hit a crisis level of hunger.

‘Unprecedented’ levels of hunger in Gaza revealed

The TRNSMT festival will be returning to Glasgow Green in July 2024. Picture: Tim Craig

Fears for future of cultural landscape if controversial alcohol curbs go ahead

US president Joe Biden sid in a tweet that violence 'would give Hamas what they seek'. Picture: Getty Images

Is Joe Biden warning Israel not to re-start its bombing campaign on Gaza?

Former chief medical officer Chris Whitty attends the UK Covid-19 inquiry in London. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Johnson's Government would have paid more attention if terrorism threat: Whitty

Parisian opera house Opéra-Comique will be bringing its latest production of Carmen to the Edinburgh International Festival in 2024. Picture: Stefan Brion

Nicola Benedetti reveals 'reconciliation' theme for 2024 Festival

Explosions erupt during Israeli bombardment in the northern Gaza Strip near a position along Israel's southern border.

Vulnerable babies at risk as Al-Shifa hospital ‘not functioning as hospital’

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Brian Monteith: UK’s Covid-19 inquiry is already more revealing than was ever in...

LEZ areas have been enforced in Glasgow since June 1. Picture: John Devlin

Academic says 'no safe level of air pollution' as LEZ court verdict pending

Hundreds of other Palestinians carry their belongings as they flee Gaza City following the Israeli army's warning to leave their homes and move south before an expected ground offensive. Picture: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty

Humanitarian fears as Israel orders mass evacuation in Gaza

An Israeli missile is launched from the Iron Dome defence missile system to intercept a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon.

Urgent calls for humanitarian corridor to deliver essential aid to Gaza

Women who fled the war in Sudan await the distribution of international aid rations at the Ourang refugee camp in eastern Chad last month after hundreds of thousands of refugees fled across Sudan's border.

Measles outbreak in Sudan refugee camps kills 1,200 young children

Why the Covid-19 threat remains very real for Scotland Dr Gwenetta Curry

The winter Covid vaccine programme has been brought forward due to a new variant. Image: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images.

Covid winter vaccine programme brought forward due to fears for new variant

Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth has suggested education spending could be reprioritised to focus more on younger generations impacted by the Covid pandemic (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

Gilruth right to be worried about lockdown’s lasting effects on children

More than 1,000 dead seabirds have been found on beaches across Aberdeenshire in what is suspected to be a devastating outbreak of bird flu in the area (David Cheskin/PA)

How worried should we be about bird flu outbreak in Scotland?

A list of 18 medical conditions that could see you banned from flying

World Health Organisation could list sweetener as possible carcinogen

A woman wears a face mask while walking on Oxford Street durng the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

World must prepare for disease even deadlier than Covid - WHO chief

Spending time outdoors has so many benefits for us (photo: Adobe)

Nourish your mental health with time spent outdoors

In this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention handout graphic, from 2003, symptoms of one of the first known cases of the monkeypox virus are shown on a patient's.(Photo: CDC/Getty Images)

UKHSA want to ‘eliminate’ monkeypox after WHO announcement

The Covid-19 pandemic broke out in March 2020, and since then there have been six million related deaths worldwide. But is it finally over?

Covid ‘no longer global health emergency’ - is the pandemic over?
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announed “with hope” that Covid-19, from which there have been six million related deaths worldwide, is “no longer a glo...

Major North Sea oil and gas producers are among those firms to have lobbied ministers more than 200 times since 2018. Picture: Carina Johansen/NTB Scanpix/AFP/Getty

Humza Yousaf urged to end 'open door' policy to oil and gas firms

A 56-year-old woman from the Guangdong province in China is the first recorded human casualty from the H3N8 bird flu.

China reports first human H3N8 bird flu death, according to WHO

Spanish authorities have issued advice amid a Dengue-fever outbreak in popular tourist hotspots

Spain issues advice to British tourists amid Dengue-fever outbreak

Locals in Jandaris (Syria) rescue an injured girl from the debris of a building destroyed by a major earthquake.

What is an Earthquake and how is it caused? Turkey Earthquake death count rising

The earthquake has killed thousands of people in Turkey and Syria (Photo: Getty)

Turkey-Syria earthquake: death-toll said to be at least 8,700

Earthquake survivors sit around a fire in Iskenderun Turkey

WHO say Turkey and Syria earthquake deaths could be 20,000

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Air pollution linked to depression by new study

While some fungus are benign, others pose a deadly threat (Picture: Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change may be creating a deadly new fungal threat – Professor Neil Gow

Ministers will give “consideration” to a potential ban on disposable vape devices in Scotland, Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has said.

Ministers to consider banning disposable vapes

United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres has announced he will convene a new Climate Ambition Summit in September 2023, calling on world leaders to step up “with new, tangible and credible climate action to accelerate the pace of change” in the battle to tackle global warming

Was 2022 the last year of climate crisis denial?

Commuters make their way along a street during snowfall in Kabul on Thursday.

Taliban ban on female workers has ‘life-threatening consequences’ for Afghans

'Sweetshop' vapes should be banned amid alarming levels of use by children (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Vape flavours like candy floss and bubblegum should be banned – Scotsman comment

Research undertaken by Opinium found 92 per cent of those surveyed planned to keep their windows closed this winter - despite the risk of mould in homes

Scots tolerate mould due to energy costs, study suggests

'All parties are scared to tackle reform of the NHS'

How independence over healthcare policy will soon be a mirage - Brian Monteith

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

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