Bloomberg
Wearable Tech to Track Covid Symptoms
Nov.25 -- Dr. James Mault, founder and chief executive officer at BioIntelliSense, discusses the company's technology that detects Covid-19 symptoms on "Bloomberg Technology."
Press Association
Interview with Professor Roberts encourages plasma donations
Interview with Professor David Roberts on new plasma trials for the NHS to help fight coronavirus, as they call for more volunteers to come forward to donate.
Curated Video
Soundbite from senate leader on Anthrax scare
1. Senate leader Tom Daschle and others approaching press
2. Cutaway, press
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tom Daschle, US Senate Majority Leader
"31 people now have had positive nasal swabs. Not all of those are members of my staff, there...
Curated Video
STIs In Newborns Have Significantly Risen Over The Pandemic
There has been a sharp rise in STIs in newborns. What can be done to combat the uptick?
Bloomberg
Covid-19 Causes Broad Spectrum of Diseases: Johns Hopkins’ Pekosz
Apr.17 -- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Professor Andrew Pekosz explains what is being learned about patterns of coronavirus infections, the uncertainties of testing, and questions about immunity and reinfection. He...
Curated Video
Philadelphia To Restore Indoor Mask Mandate As COVID Cases Rise
Health inspectors will begin enforcing the mask mandate at city businesses April 18.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Two Pfizer jabs gives 70% protection from Omicron: S.African doctor
Two shots of Pfizer's Covid vaccine offers around 70 percent protection against severe disease from Omicron, according to Dr Ron Whelan, Head of the Discovery Covid19 task team in South Africa (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Bloomberg
Moderna Chair Says Covid Pandemic May Shift to Endemic in 2022
Moderna Inc. co-founder Noubar Afeyan says the Covid-19 pandemic could start moving into an endemic phase in 2022. "It really depends on what happens and the decisions that are made across the world," Afeyan said on Bloomberg Television,...
Bloomberg
Festive Gatherings Put Elderly at Risk, WHO Warns
Nov.24 -- World Health Organization Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan comments on the Covid-19 shot developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca Plc. She also discusses vaccine distribution and the risk of increased coronavirus...
Bloomberg
Japan's Shionogi Says Its Covid Pill's Sales May Hit $2 Billion
Oct.07 -- Japanese drugmaker Shionogi & Co. Ltd. says sales of the Covid pill it is developing could reach $2 billion drug. The company expects to have late-stage trial data in Japan by December and plans to move quickly on filing for...
Curated Video
An American doctor exposed to Ebola in Sierra Leone will be kept in isolation at the National Institutes of Health for 21 days, the longest incubation period for the virus. (Sept. 29)
An American doctor who was exposed to the Ebola virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone will be under observation at The National Institutes of Health for three weeks.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the Institute of Allergy and...
Curated Video
A molecule has been found that could block the transmission of HIV ++REFEED++
Khayalitsha township outside Cape Town, South Africa - recent
1. Wide shot Khayalitsha township outside Cape Town
2. Mid shot Kunene Aunt Mashudu walking to beading centre (she is a HIV positive mother in the programme)
3. Various shots...
Curated Video
China Health Ministry presser on bird flu virus as number of cases rises to 21
Beijing, 8 April 2013
1. Wide of news conference ++MUTE++
2. Cutaway media
3. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Liang Wannian, director of China's H7N9 prevention and control office:
"The new episode of bird flu H7N9 is caused by a new type of...
Bloomberg
Global Covid-19 Cases Near 3 Million, Nations Plan to Ease Restrictions
Apr.27 -- European nations are planning a gradual reopening throughout the month of May, while Indonesian health officials say normal life will resume in July after the nation implements a three-pronged approach to battling the...
Press Association
Virologist emphasises safety of 'groundbreaking' vaccine
Interview with Dr Muhammad Munir, Virologist at Lancaster University, on the approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.
Dr Munir stresses that the speed in which the vaccine was manufactured has not compromised safety of the jab,...
Bloomberg
WHO Science Council Member: Test, Trace, Isolation Strategy Is Key
Jul.15 -- Adeeba Kamarulzaman, professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the University of Malaya and a member of the World Health Organization Science Council, talks about the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in Southeast...
Curated Video
How Might COVID End?
There's only one example from the past century of an eradicated infectious virus: smallpox.
Bloomberg
Covid Boosters-For-All Data 'Isn't There': Johns Hopkins
Sep.24 -- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Professor and Virologist Andrew Pekosz discusses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's decision to back the wider use of Covid-19 vaccine boosters for at-risk...
Curated Video
New Omicron Subvariant Is The Most Infectious COVID-19 Strain Yet
A subvariant of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, BA.5, is now the dominant strain in the U.S., and its infection rates are even more harsh.
Curated Video
Jordan - Salmonella Scare
While most of the world is still obsessed with the potential dangers of mad cow disease, Jordan is in the grip of a 'mad chicken' scare. People are being advised by the health authorities that many chickens and also the eggs they lay are...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Stigma stalks India's leprosy sufferers as disease returns
CLEAN : Stigma stalks India's leprosy sufferers as disease returns
Bloomberg
Should Investors Turn Defensive Amid Resurgence of Virus?
Jun.18 -- JPMorgan says investors are right to see the resurgence in coronavirus infections as a risk factor, but advises against turning defensive or negative on markets. "The rate of growth of the infection is still pretty modest,"...
Bloomberg
France, U.K. Post Record Daily Infections
Sep.25 -- Worries are mounting across Europe on another wave of the pandemic. The U.K. and France both reported record daily infections on Thursday. Bloomberg’s Maria Tadeo reports on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe.”
Bloomberg
Abe Declares End to Japan's State of Emergency
May.25 -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a news conference in Tokyo about the decision to lift the nationwide state of emergency.