“A resurgence of fighting in Sudan’s western Darfur region has driven 300,000 people from their homes so far this year, UN humanitarian aid chief Valerie Amos said on Thursday.” Source: 300,000 displaced in Darfur this year: UN | GulfNews.com
“A man has died of the novel coronavirus (NCoV) in Tunisia, in what is believed to be the first such case in Africa. Tunisia’s health ministry said the 66-year-old had visited Saudi Arabia, which is badly affected by the virus. About 20 deaths and 41 cases have been reported worldwide since 2012, the World Health [...]
“Human cloning has been used to produce early embryos, marking a ‘significant step’ for medicine, say US scientists. The cloned embryos were used as a source of stem cells, which can make new heart muscle, bone, brain tissue or any other type of cell in the body.” Source: BBC News – Embryonic stem cells: Advance [...]
“Two health care workers in Saudi Arabia were sickened while treating patients with a dangerous new virus, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The health care workers were exposed to patients with the novel coronavirus, or nCoV, the WHO said in a statement Wednesday. One is a 45-year-old man who is currently in critical condition [...]
“The doctor who discovered a new Sars-like virus says it will probably trigger an epidemic at some point, but not necessarily in its current virulent form. The new strain of coronavirus (nCoV) that Ali Mohammad Zaki found last year, related to one that caused the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) in 2003, has [...]
