Routine, mass use of alcohol-based hand gels could produce a superbug ‘Armageddon’ scenario, a global expert in surface disinfection has warned.

Norwegian scientists looking at vitamin D levels in mothers and children during pregnancy, and up to six months after birth, have found over 30 percent of infants had inadequate levels of the vitamin at three months of age.

The coronavirus will be present "forever in some form or another", Sir Mark Walport, a UK government scientist has said, adding that people would need to be vaccinated at regular intervals.

One hundred cases of Ebola have been recorded in DR Congo's northwest in less than three months, says the World Health Organization, warning that the response to the epidemic is underfunded.

On August 12, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced that his country would gradually phase out use of glyphosate by the time the current administration ends in late 2024.

Cases of type 1 diabetes among children in a small UK study almost doubled during the peak of Britain’s coronavirus epidemic, say scientists suggesting a possible link.

The coronavirus death count in England has been reduced by more than 5,000 after it emerged officials were “over-exaggerating” the number of deaths from the virus. Previously in the country, anyone who died and had ever tested positive for the virus was automatically counted as a coronavirus death – even if their death was from a car accident.

The World Health Organization has warned that the effects of the coronavirus pandemic will be felt for decades.