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The World Health Organization (WHO) has made yet another warning about an impending “Disease X” outbreak, with Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus telling world leaders that it’s “a matter of when, not if.”

The federal government failed to notice an unlicensed bio lab in Reedley, California, which stored many communicable diseases and was created by a fugitive Chinese citizen with close ties to China’s government, according to a congressional report.

The Indian state of Kerala shut down schools and colleges in the city of Kozhikode through September 24 in response to the confirmation of six cases of Nipah virus, a bat-borne pathogen whose outbreaks have resulted in death rates as high as 94 percent.

The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs failed to publish statistics on the number of cremations documented in the last quarter of 2022, the South China Morning Post observed Thursday – the first time in 16 years the agency has not done so.

The Biden administration is “destroying our identity as a nation” and essentially “erasing us,” according to conservative radio legend Michael Savage, who warned that U.S. borders are being “dissolved” and American culture “bastardized.”

Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin on Monday urged Indonesians not to worry about the recent global outbreak of monkeypox, noting at a press conference that while its signature sores would “definitely” make one “look ugly,” the disease has a low fatality rate.

Scientists from China and Singapore recently announced the detection of a novel animal-derived virus known as Langya henipavirus (LayV) in at least 35 humans across China’s eastern provinces of Henan and Shandong, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Tuesday, noting that the zoonotic virus is often found in shrews.

China-based diagnostic test makers expect to profit considerably from the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) recent decision to declare monkeypox a “public health emergency,” as the W.H.O. requested mass orders of monkeypox testing kits from at least two such manufacturers shortly after the declaration, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Tuesday.

A 27-year-old Nigerian went missing from Phuket, Thailand, in recent days after health officials informed him that he tested positive for monkeypox, Channel News Asia (CNA) reported Friday, noting that the African’s infection marked Thailand’s first-ever monkeypox case.

The number of monkeypox cases in Germany has risen to over 2,000 according to statistics released on Tuesday, as the European Union continues sourcing tens of thousands of jabs to help fight off the virus surge.

The nation’s capital is experiencing the largest outbreak of monkeypox per capita, WTOP news reported Monday.

Four softshell turtles sold at a wet market in Wuhan, China — the origin site of the pandemic-inducing Chinese coronavirus — tested positive for a pathogen capable of causing cholera, a bacterial disease, on Wednesday, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Friday.

Three people have died in Tanzania’s Lindi region in recent days after contracting an unidentified illness characterized by symptoms including “nosebleeds, fever, headaches and fatigue,” Africanews reported on Thursday.

Leprosy is an ancient disease that many may associate with a bygone era. In some of the most populous areas of the world, however – such as Nigeria and India – the disease continues to proliferate, forcing victims to live on the margins of society in leprosy colonies.

The world has been focused for more than two years on the coronavirus epidemic, but one health expert says people should be aware that the threat of food shortages around the globe could be “just as deadly.”

Instead of addressing real threats to human health, WHO has issued a report on the mental health impact from so-called climate change.

Iraq’s Ministry of Health announced Saturday that the country was experiencing “a dangerous rise in viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) cases,” with the ministry recording 90 infections and 18 deaths from the disease in recent days, India’s Zee News reported on Sunday.

President Joe Biden issued a health warning Sunday, cautioning “everybody” should be concerned about the cases of monkeypox recently detected both in the U.S. and in Europe.

India recorded its first bird flu death on Tuesday after an 11-year old boy in New Delhi succumbed to complications caused by an avian flu virus of the H5N1 strain, the Times of India reported on Thursday.

Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) proposed legislation to allow the Justice Department to investigate and sue China for the coronavirus outbreak.

China’s leaders should face something akin to the Nuremberg Trials for “crimes against humanity” regarding the global coronavirus outbreak, said Gordon Chang, Daily Beast columnist and author of The Great U.S.-China Tech War.

Rather than advancing national unity in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the news media are “trying to tear the country apart,” said Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak while hosting this week’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday.

“I think we’re in the greatest revival in history,” said Mike Lindell, describing adversity as an opportunity for spiritual development.

Americans want to “pull together as a country” to overcome the coronavirus outbreak despite the efforts of news media outlets such as CNN, said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), offering his remarks on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) repeatedly criticized President Trump’s response to the coronavirus and the White House’s broader political strategy in the months prior to praising the president’s approach to the outbreak.

Bed Beacon finds hospitals as Vrbo finds hotels, said Dr. Kathryn Jarvis, warning of healthcare shortages during the coronaovirus outbreak.

A fundamental purpose of immigration law is the prevention of spreading disease, noted former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Just as the coronavirus epidemic went nationwide, 1,200 newly graduated American doctors were left on the sidelines because they were denied a place in the limited number of medical residencies for 2020. 

Chinese media outlets import numerous journalists into the United States via the H-1B program, usually at very low salaries.

BEIRUT — Lebanon went into lockdown and Iraqis prepared for a curfew Monday as part of regional efforts to contain the new coronavirus even as businesses remained open in Iran, which is battling the worst outbreak in the Middle East and where another senior official has died from the virus.

“Smart action today will prevent the spread of the virus tomorrow,” President Donald Trump said in his March 11 Oval Office address to the nation on the Chinese coronavirus epidemic.

A young woman in Elk Creek, Virginia, asked for help in a unique way after her boyfriend was diagnosed with kidney disease in 2017.

The Chinese healthcare system is in shambles,” stated Dr. Nicole Saphier while discussing the ongoing coronvavirus outbreak in China.

In an interview with Breitbart News on Tuesday, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) said the Trump administration should consider banning all “non-essential travel” from China into the United States given the risks associated with the ongoing coronavirus outbreak in the one-party state.

China Health Minister Ma Xiaowei said Monday the coronavirus appears to be getting stronger and warned of walking “contagious agents” spreading the disease as the death toll increased by 24 to 80.

The man who started the viral Ice Bucket Challenge to raise money for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research died of the disease Monday.