Dengue cases in Argentina have exceeded 576,000 so far this year.

The Health Ministry released a report on Monday indicating through its national epidemiological bulletin that a total of 576,728 dengue cases have been reported across the country in the first 39 weeks of 2024, news agency reported.

Argentina has focused on a prevention campaign ahead of the upcoming summer season in the past few weeks when hot and rainy weather conditions could accelerate the spread of the disease.

The campaign includes dengue vaccines targeting people aged 15 to 39 residing in 48 prioritised areas. The distribution of vaccines began on September 19.

Six people, including five children, were taken ill due to food poisoning in Bihar's Banka district, an official said on Tuesday.

The incident occurred in Chaukhat village after they returned home from a fair in Kendau.

After coming home, they ate less dinner, saying they had consumed snacks at the fair and slept.

Later, around 1 a.m. on Tuesday, they complained of vomiting and diarrhoea and were rushed to the referral hospital in Amarpur for treatment.

The father of one of the victims, Rajesh Manjhi, confirmed the sequence of events.

A Japanese study has revealed the crucial role of intestinal absorption in the gut in preventing dietary-induced fatty liver disease.

The accumulation of fats in the liver is driven by high-fat diets and obesity and is becoming an increasingly prevalent global health concern. Characterised by excessive fat accumulation in the liver, this condition poses significant risks for various metabolic disorders.

While much of the existing research has focused on fat metabolism within the liver itself, emerging findings emphasise the critical role of the gut in this complex process.

Researchers from the Fujita Health University in Japan in a mice study explored how key hormones like proglucagon-derived peptides (PGDPs), including glucagon, GLP-1, and GLP-2, impact fat absorption and liver fat buildup.

Rwanda began administering Marburg vaccine trials, prioritising frontline workers as part of efforts to prevent the spread of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in the country.

Rwandan Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana on Sunday told a press conference in the national capital of Kigali that the first round of trial vaccinations targets healthcare workers, emergency responders, and individuals who have had contact with confirmed Marburg cases.

"We have received 700 doses of the vaccine, and we are hopeful that more will arrive soon to continue our efforts in safeguarding the health of our people," Nsanzimana said, emphasising the importance of protecting frontline workers, particularly those at high risk of exposure, reports news agency.

"The Marburg vaccine, produced by the Sabin Vaccine Institute, has already proven effective in countries like Uganda and Kenya," Nsanzimana said, emphasising that it is both safe and trusted.

Consuming an egg every day is safe and good for your heart, and it will not increase your blood cholesterol levels, said experts on Saturday noting that the fear is unwarranted.

Given the rise in cholesterol and poor heart health, the number of eggs a person can consume per day has been long debated.

“Eggs are perhaps the best source of protein in the world, it also contains other nutrients, including vitamins and minerals. Importantly, they are easily available and relatively economical.

“There is a lot of unnecessary anxiety about the consumption of eggs, to the extent that people are fearful of consuming it. This is unwarranted because various studies have shown that increasing the number of eggs taken daily, does not necessarily lead to a rise in blood cholesterol,” said Jayadevan, also a gastroenterologist.

Alzheimer's disease patients’ brains do not shrink uniformly, the pattern varies between individuals with the neurodegenerative disease, finds a study.

Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia and is responsible for 60-70 per cent of dementia cases in people over 65 years of age.

The study by researchers at University College London, UK, and Radboud University in the Netherlands, is the first to analyse patterns of brain shrinkage over time in people with mild memory problems or Alzheimer's disease, and then compare it against a healthy benchmark.

The results, published in the journal Alzheimer's and Dementia, are based on brain scans of 3,233 MRI brain scans from 1,181 people with Alzheimer's disease or mild memory issues and compared with benchmark brain scan data collected from 58,836 healthy people.

Infants and young children are at higher risk of meningitis, but vaccines can prevent it in some cases, said experts on World Meningitis Day on Saturday.

World Meningitis Day is observed every year to raise awareness about the deadly and debilitating disease, which strikes quickly and causes serious health harm.

While it affects people of all ages in every part of the world, children are particularly vulnerable.

Over 5 million people are affected by meningitis every year, and around half of all meningitis deaths are in children under 5 years old.

The first case of West Nile fever in Latvia has been detected in a dead bird in the laboratory of the Scientific Institute for Food Safety (BIOR), Animal Health and Environment, local media reported.

West Nile virus was detected in a sample of a Eurasian goshawk on Friday, which was sent for investigation to establish the cause of death, reports.

BIOR said West Nile fever is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects birds and horses, and less commonly other animal species. Birds are the most common host of the virus, but humans can also be infected, however, the infection does not spread from person to person.

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) donated cold chain equipment to South Sudan's Ministry of Health to strengthen the country's vaccine storage capacity and routine immunisation efforts amid the ongoing outbreak of mpox on the continent.

Mazyanga Lucy Liwewe Mazaba, regional director for the Eastern Africa Regional Coordinating Center of the Africa CDC, on Friday, said the equipment will help strengthen the immunisation program in the world's youngest country.

The donation includes 65 refrigerators, four voltage stabilisers, three thermometers, and various accessories that will ensure the safe storage and transportation of vaccines to the last mile, Liwewe said during the handover ceremony in Juba, the capital of South Sudan.

The number of confirmed cases of mpox in Uganda has risen to 41 within two weeks, according to the data revealed at a regional consortium here on the viral disease.

Atek Kagirita, Ugandan deputy incident commander for mpox, told experts from Africa, who convened in Uganda late Wednesday for the Interdisciplinary Consortium for Epidemic Research Symposium on Mpox, that the disease was spreading rapidly in the central region, news agency reported.

The symposium was held as the regional countries were seeking to build partnerships for a more coordinated mpox response.

"Currently we have 41 confirmed cases, some are still under isolation," Kagirita said, adding no deaths were recorded yet and that they had continued to track contacts, most of whom were members of fishing communities.