The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) supports the Lao government to strengthen capacity in the animal health sector to respond and control African Swine Fever in the pig population.African swine fever (ASF) is a fatalhaemor…
The World Health Organization’s European region director says that while COVID-19 cases on the continent continue to rise, he sees a plausible endgame for the pandemic in Europe in coming months.Speaking during his weekly virtual news briefing from his…
A groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a drinking water facility at a school in Pha Oh Temple, Luang Prabang was held on Jan 31. The project will make clean drinking water available to about 500 students of the school,
Crushing fatigue. Brain fog. Trouble breathing weeks after contracting COVID-19. Scientists call it post-acute sequelae of COVID-19. Most people just call it “long COVID.”For millions of people, these and other symptoms are keeping them from getting ba…
U.S. intelligence agencies may have ruled out the idea that a rash of mysterious illnesses plaguing American diplomats and other officials is part of a sustained campaign by one of Washington’s adversaries, but they now say that in a small
The police chief of Canada’s capital said Wednesday there is likely no policing solution to end a protest against vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions that has snarled traffic around Parliament.He also said there is a “significant element” …
When it comes to measuring global warming, humidity, not just heat, matters in generating dangerous climate extremes, a new study finds.Researchers say temperature by itself isn’t the best way to measure climate change’s weird weather and downplays imp…
A group of pharmaceutical companies and distributors agreed to pay $590 million to settle lawsuits connected to opioid addiction among Native American tribes, according to a U.S. court filing released Tuesday.The agreement is the latest amid a deluge o…
