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Nine children in <keyword id="23050" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="sweden" source="Orion">Sweden</keyword> have fallen ill with suspected acute hepatitis without any apparent cause, the country's <keyword id="286970" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="public-health-agency" source="Orion">Public Health Agency</keyword> has said. "It is very unusual but does occur that a child suffers from acute hepatitis with an unknown cause. The <keyword id="13892772" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="swedish-public-health-agency" source="Orion">Swedish Public Health Agency</keyword> is investigating whether the cases we see now represent an increase in acute hepatitis with an unknown cause or not," state epidemiologist <keyword id="13892771" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="anders-lindblom" source="Orion">Anders Lindblom</keyword> said in a press release. All nine children fell ill between November to April and caregivers have now been urged to be vigilant should they encounter similar cases. Besides jaundice, the nine cases have also had symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, pale stools, and nausea, Xinhua news agency reported. Similar cases of hepatitis without an apparent cause have recently been reported from several countries, such as the US, the UK, and Denmark. The Swedish Public Health Agency has reported the Swedish cases to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (<keyword id="68838" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="ecdc" source="Orion">ECDC</keyword>) to be included in an ongoing investigation to find out whether there is a common denominator. According to the ECDC, laboratory tests have excluded viral hepatitis types A, B, C, D, and E in all cases. A large proportion of the reported cases in the UK and some other countries have tested positive for adenovirus. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/delivery-ipo-opens-today-check-out-important-details-related-to-the-ipo/articleshow/91477103.cms">Delivery IPO opens today — check out important details related to the IPO</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/sony-srs-ns7-neckband-speaker-review/articleshow/91472214.cms">Sony SRS-NS7 Wireless Neckband speaker review — Unique but too niche for 2022</a>

Sweden reports nine cases of unexplained acute hepatitis in children

The current outbreak of the <keyword id="7616951" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="monkeypox" source="Orion">monkeypox</keyword> virus is primarily spreading through sex among men, the <keyword id="43588" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="world-health-organization" source="Orion">World Health Organization</keyword> (WHO) has said, adding that the virus is "containable". First reported on May 7 in the UK, monkeypox has rapidly spread to over a dozen countries, where the virus is typically not found unlike some countries in Central and West <keyword id="12925" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="africa" source="Orion">Africa</keyword>, with about 200 confirmed and suspected cases. So far no-associated deaths have been reported. The WHO has warned that the infection is likely to spread to more nations even as it expands surveillance. It further said that the identification of confirmed and suspected cases of monkeypox with no direct travel links to an endemic area "represents a highly unusual event". "We've seen a few cases in <keyword id="28249" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="europe" source="Orion">Europe</keyword> over the last five years, just in travellers, but this is the first time we're seeing cases across many countries at the same time in people who have not travelled to the endemic regions in Africa," Rosamund Lewis, who runs the WHO's smallpox research, said in a Q&amp;A live streamed on the health body's social media channels. While the virus itself is not a sexually transmitted infection, which are generally spread through semen and vaginal fluids, the most recent surge in cases appears to have been spread among men who have sex with other men, WHO officials said, emphasising that anyone can contract monkeypox, the <keyword id="51916" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="cnbc" source="Orion">CNBC</keyword> reported. "Many diseases can be spread through sexual contact. You could get a cough or a cold through sexual contact, but it doesn't mean that it's a sexually transmitted disease," Andy Seale, who advises the WHO on HIV, hepatitis and other sexually transmitted infections, was quoted as saying. Monkeypox has not previously been described as a sexually transmitted infection, but it can be passed on by direct contact during sex. Further, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) noted that the likelihood of spread is very low for the broader population, BBC reported. But, the transmission is majorly occurring "through close contact for example during sexual activities amongst persons with multiple sexual partners is considered to be high", Andrea Ammon of the ECDC, was quoted as saying. The WHO also noted that monkeypox can be contained in countries outside of Africa where the virus is not usually detected. "This is a containable situation," the WHO's emerging disease lead Maria Van Kerkhove said at a news conference on Monday. "We want to stop human-to-human transmission. We can do this in non-endemic countries," she added, referring to recent cases in Europe and North America. Despite being the largest outbreak outside of Africa in 50 years, monkeypox does not spread easily between people and experts say the threat is not comparable to the coronavirus pandemic. "Transmission is really happening from skin-to-skin contact, most of the people who have been identified have more of a mild disease," Van Kerkhove said. The WHO added that there was no evidence the monkeypox virus had mutated, following earlier speculation over the cause of the current outbreak. Viruses in this group "tend not to mutate and they tend to be fairly stable," said Lewis. Experts have also suggested that countries should review the availability of the smallpox vaccine which is also effective against monkeypox.

Monkeypox spreading through sexual contact among men, but not a sexually transmitted infection: World Health Organisation

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12526837" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="latvia" source="Orion">Latvia</keyword>'s parliament voted to ban lawmakers from voting if they don't have the <keyword id="11893994" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19" source="Orion">COVID-19</keyword> vaccine. </li><li>The country is looking to introduce more laws to protect its healthcare system.</li></ul>Latvia's parliament voted to ban lawmakers who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine from voting on legislation.New rules were passed on Friday by 62 of the 100 members of parliament in the Eastern European nation, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/latvia-bans-unvaccinated-lawmakers-voting-docks-pay-2021-11-12/">Reuters reported</a>.The rules say that members who can't vote because of the new rule also won't get paid until they receive a vaccine. There are exceptions for people who recently had COVID-19, or who can't get vaccinated for medical reasons.Latvia has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the EU, according to <a href="https://vaccinetracker.ecdc.europa.eu/public/extensions/COVID-19/vaccine-tracker.html#uptake-tab">European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) data</a>.<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/latvia-bans-unvaccinated-lawmakers-voting-docks-pay-2021-11-12/">According to Reuters</a>, nine Latvian MPs have so far rejected the COVID-19 vaccine.A press release by the Latvian parliament cited Juris Rancāns, who helped steer the legislation, saying it was "necessary to improve public trust in the COVID‑19 infection control policy in Latvia."During the last week, Latvia saw 29,251 COVID-19 cases and 524 deaths, ECDC data shows. Per Reuters, Latvia is considering reimposing a <keyword id="91743" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="lockdown" source="Orion">lockdown</keyword> over winter.

Latvia voted to ban unvaccinated lawmakers from voting and withhold their pay until they get the shots

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A new COVID wave appears to be rising in Europe.</li><li>Throughout the pandemic, US COVID trends have mirrored what Europe does.</li></ul>It's time to get a COVID vaccine booster shot, experts say.There are early warning signals in the US and in Europe that we are entering a winter wave of COVID-19 infections, epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina wrote in her <a href="https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/covid-state-of-affairs-oct-5/">Substack newsletter</a> on Wednesday.Jetelina <a href="https://twitter.com/Jean__Fisch/status/1575849179582443520">shared a graph</a> showing an uptick in COVID hospital admissions across Western Europe, adding: "Here we go again."These European trends are concerning for virus-watchers in the US, who know that generally during the pandemic whatever happens in Europe will be mirrored in the states. <div type="image" title="graph showing US mirroring Europe in COVID cases" height="623" width="975" msid="94690698" hostid="261" sizebytes="44010"></div>"We may be in for a bumpy ride this winter," Jetelina said. "There's a lot you can do, but the lowest hanging fruit is to get your <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/omicron-covid-19-booster-shots-side-effects-timing-2022-9">fall booster</a>."<h2>Confirmed cases started going up across Europe when temperatures dropped</h2>The uptick in cases in Europe is likely due to a mix of colder weather forcing people indoors, more mingling as school starts up, and celebrations like <a href="https://twitter.com/Jean__Fisch/status/1577675869514076160">Oktoberfest</a> bring people <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/oktoberfest-2022-was-no-record-year/a-63297026">together for the first time in two years</a>. As Jetelina points out, the dominant variant is still Omicron — which is good news, given our <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/omicron-covid-19-booster-shots-side-effects-timing-2022-9">new tailored</a> vaccines.<div type="image" title="covid cases going up in europe" height="572" width="900" msid="94690699" hostid="261" sizebytes="47300"></div><h2>The real warning sign: A rise in hospitalizations </h2><div type="image" title="chart showing hospital admissions in europe ticking up" height="555" width="901" msid="94690700" hostid="261" sizebytes="40632"></div>In Germany<a href="https://twitter.com/Jean__Fisch/status/1575849179582443520"> hospital admissions for COVID are increasing fast</a>, and roughly half (14/27) of the European countries reporting hospitalization and ICU numbers to the <a href="https://covid19-country-overviews.ecdc.europa.eu/index.html">European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control</a> are seeing similar surges. "Overall, the epidemiological picture suggests that there is increasing transmission," the ECDC said on September 30. Much the same is <a href="https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/easy_read">happening in the UK</a>. <h2>Case rates are still stable in the US — but toilet-water data suggests that will change soon</h2>Though official <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases_select_00">case rates</a> and <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#new-hospital-admissions">hospitalizations</a> aren't ticking up much yet in the US, toilets in Boston are already suggesting an increase in COVID is upon us.Wastewater can turn positive for COVID <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-experts-poop-data-shows-omicron-peaking-in-the-us-2022-1">before tests do, and gives a rough gauge</a> of how many COVID-positive people are <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/HealthInsider/status/1512180117556142080">flushing virus down the toilet</a> — whether they know it or not. <div type="image" title="boston wastewater covid increase" height="658" width="931" msid="94690701" hostid="261" sizebytes="34980"></div><h2>This is the first time our COVID shots have been so closely matched to the virus around us</h2>The coronavirus variants circulating now are all versions of Omicron, with <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions">BA.4 and BA.5</a> dominating. New COVID booster shots are <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/omicron-covid-19-booster-shots-side-effects-timing-2022-9">available</a> that target those variants specifically — the first time we've had COVID shots so closely matched to circulating virus. Booster shots are <a href="https://www.vaccines.gov/search/">free in the US</a>, and you can get one any time, as long as its been at least two months since your last COVID vaccination, and you don't have an active COVID infection right now.

Yes, it's time to get your COVID booster — just look at these charts

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Thousands of Parisians have been stuck in record levels of <keyword id="6361065" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="traffic">traffic</keyword> as they try to flee the city and head towards the countryside before the national lockdown is imposed at midnight.</li><li>Traffic stretched to 435 miles (706km) in the Île-de-France of <keyword id="106" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Paris">Paris</keyword> on Thursday evening as <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> measures are set to be enforced amid the growing number of cases, <a href="https://www.itv.com/news/2020-10-30/covid-record-breaking-440-mile-traffic-jam-stretches-around-paris-as-residents-flee-second-lockdown">ITV</a> reported.</li><li><a href="https://www.itv.com/news/2020-10-30/covid-record-breaking-440-mile-traffic-jam-stretches-around-paris-as-residents-flee-second-lockdown">ITV</a> added that according to figures from the official traffic monitoring website, <a href="http://www.sytadin.fr">Sytadin</a>, the traffic jams broke the previous French record of 629km reached during the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/traffic-jams-cripple-paris-as-pension-strikes-halt-trains-2019-12">public transport strikes</a> last December.</li><li>The French have been ordered to stay at home unless leaving home for essential work, medical reasons, buying essential goods, or undertaking their one-hour allocation of exercise.</li><li>They will also be required to carry documents that provide evidence of this and could be subject to police checks and fined at €135 ($158) if they are not eligible to leave their homes.</li><li>The news comes as <keyword id="6354785" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="france">France</keyword> reached over a million coronavirus cases on Thursday, according to the <a href="https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea">European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)</a>.</li></ul>Thousands of Parisians were stuck in record levels of traffic as they escaped the city and headed to the countryside to make the best of the national lockdown imposed at midnight Thursday.Traffic stretched to a cumulative 435 miles (706km) in the Île-de-France region of Paris early on Thursday evening, <a href="https://www.itv.com/news/2020-10-30/covid-record-breaking-440-mile-traffic-jam-stretches-around-paris-as-residents-flee-second-lockdown">ITV</a> reported.Professor Michael E. Webber from the University of Texas tweeted a video of the traffic jam with the caption: "Incredible traffic jam in Paris as people try to leave the city before 9 pm curfew and before confinement begins at midnight."Traffic is barely moving in every direction as far as the eye can see. Lots of honking and frustrated drivers."The chaos was worsened by families returning to the cities after the French school holidays and longer queues than usual also built up around the cities of Lyon and Bordeaux, according to the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54742795">BBC</a>.The French must stay at home unless leaving home for essential work, medical reasons, buying essential goods, or undertaking their one-hour allocation of exercise.They will also be required to carry documents that provide evidence and be subject to police checks and fined at €135 ($158) if they are not eligible to leave their homes.In a televised address to the nation, President Emmanuel Macron said: "The virus is circulating at a speed that not even the most pessimistic forecasts has anticipated. "We are all in the same position: overrun by a second wave which we know will be harder, more deadly than the first. I've decided that we need to return to the lockdown which halted the virus."However, schools and creches will remain open with French Prime Minister Jean Castex announcing yesterday that schoolchildren aged six and up will now have to wear face masks rather than just children aged 11 and over, according to <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/france/20201029-france-braces-for-new-covid-19-lockdown-rules-to-be-detailed-by-pm-castex">France 24</a>.The lockdown will be enforced until December 1, although the government's scientific adviser, Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, told <a href="https://www.franceinter.fr/direct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">France Inter Radio</a> that it is likely to extend beyond this, <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/france/20201029-france-braces-for-new-covid-19-lockdown-rules-to-be-detailed-by-pm-castex" target="_blank" rel="noopener">France 24</a> added.Initially, Macron announced a 9pm curfew in Paris and other major French cities but officials this week acknowledged that the measure had been insufficient in decreasing infection rates and required a more drastic response, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-france/macron-orders-france-back-into-covid-19-lockdown-idUKKBN27D2WG">Reuters</a> reported.The news comes as France enters its second full lockdown amid the growing rate of coronavirus cases with the country, reaching over a million on Thursday, according to the <a href="https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea">European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)</a>.

Paris region grinds to a standstill in record gridlock as people escape to the countryside ahead of a nationwide coronavirus lockdown

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Most of the reported cases of <keyword id="11893994" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19" source="Orion">COVID-19</keyword> associated with the <keyword id="12616996" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="omicron" source="Orion">Omicron</keyword> variant have been mild so far.</li><li>However, experts say it's still too early to observe how the variant affects hospitalization rates and deaths globally.</li></ul>Early reports on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/omicron-covid-variant-first-case-reported-in-us-2021-12">Omicron</a> suggest the <keyword id="11893194" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus" source="Orion">coronavirus</keyword> variant may cause mostly mild illness compared to other strains, but public health experts are not making that call just yet.Across Africa, Europe, and the US, the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-omicron-variant-mutations-are-concerning-2021-11">variant has raised concern</a> due to its high transmissibility and potential ability to evade preexisting immunity.There are hints of a hazy silver lining: Most confirmed Omicron cases so far have been mild or asymptomatic.However, experts across the world, including at Europe's CDC, have <a href="https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/covid-19-threat-assessment-spread-omicron-first-update">cautioned</a> that it will take several weeks until we have concrete data on hospitalizations related to Omicron. Until we have those numbers, it's somewhat futile trying to understand the variant's severity at the population level, they say."Without knowing the age of the individuals, whether they had preexisting health conditions, so on and so forth, it's difficult to really draw any conclusions," Nirav Shah, president of the Association of State &amp; Territorial Health Officials, said in a media briefing Thursday. "Old saying, 'the plural of anecdote is not data' applies with particular force here."<h2>Mostly mild symptoms to date</h2>Half of the 70 confirmed Omicron cases identified in Europe so far have been asymptomatic, and the other half presented with mild symptoms, the European CDC wrote in a new <a href="https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/threat-assessment-covid-19-emergence-sars-cov-2-variant-omicron-december-2021.pdf">threat assessment</a> regarding Omicron Thursday.The first patients identified to have Omicron in South Africa and Botswana in early November also had mild symptoms, Angelique Coetzee, the doctor who first spotted the new variant, told the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-59450988">BBC</a>. The patients she's seen have reported one or two days of severe fatigue and body aches, but not the shortness of breath or loss of taste and smell that have come to be associated with COVID-19, she said.The symptom profile struck Coetzee as unlike Delta, and similar cases continued to emerge that day and in coming weeks.Dr. Unben Pillay, a general practitioner in Gauteng province, where 81% of South Africa's new cases have been reported, said he's observed patients having "flu-like symptoms: dry coughs, fever, night sweats, and a lot of body pains.""We have not seen a vast increase in hospitalizations, but this is still early days," Pillay said in a media briefing Monday. "Hospitalizations often come several days after a rise in confirmed cases."<h2>Delta taught us not to make assumptions early on</h2>In South Africa, health officials have <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/omicron-variant-puttings-huge-numbers-of-kids-under-5-years-old-in-hospital-in-south-africa">reported</a> an "unprecedented" uptick in hospitalizations among children under the age of 5 since Omicron was detected.However, some experts have recalled the rush to make meaning around the Delta variant when it first emerged.Early reports suggested that Delta was causing more serious illness in children, but as time went on and more data was gathered, it became clear there wasn't a strong association, Müge Çevik, an infectious disease specialist at the University of St Andrews, UK, told <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03614-z">Nature.</a>"Everyone is trying to find some data that could guide us," she told the scientific journal's <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">news</keyword> team. "But it's very difficult at the moment."<h2>Omicron has mainly been detected in younger adults so far</h2>Much of what we know about Omicron comes from South Africa, where reported cases have been mild but mainly among under-40s."Most of these patients have been treated at home," Pillay said in the press briefing Monday. "Vaccinated people tend to do much better."Just under 30 percent of people in South Africa have been fully vaccinated, according to <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations">Our World in Data</a>. But the country has a relatively young and healthy population compared to the US and parts of Europe, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel told <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/01/covid-who-says-south-africa-hospitalizations-rising-omicron-severity-unclear.html">CNBC</a>, so it may not be the best predictor of how Omicron will affect other parts of the world.In Europe, the majority of Omicron cases detected "have not been of older age and were fully vaccinated," according to the ECDC report. Given that many were travelers returning from African countries, they could also be assumed to be healthier than the general population.Experts have warned that older and unvaccinated individuals have a higher risk of developing severe COVID-19 symptoms compared to the rest of the population. While the COVID-19 vaccines have continued to prove <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fully-vaccinated-people-not-immune-to-covid-milder-2021-7">effective at reducing hospitalization and deaths</a>, even where the risk of infection with a tricky variant is present, it has yet to be seen how Omicron affects more vulnerable groups.

Most Omicron cases so far have been mild, but experts say it will take weeks to understand how severe the variant can be

While Google is still working on a coronavirus screening and tracking website, Microsoft Bing team has already launched a web portal for tracking COVID-19 infections worldwide. The website, accessible at bing.com/covid, provides up-to-date infection statistics for each country. The COVID-19 Tracker currently lists 168,835 as total confirmed <keyword id="44392" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="cases">cases</keyword>, 84,558 active cases, 77,761 recovered cases and 6,516 deaths. There are at least 3,244 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus in the US and at least 61 deaths. "Lots of Bing folks worked (from home) this past week to create a mapping and authoritative news resource for COVID19 info," Michael Schechter, General Manager for <keyword id="8913907" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="bing-growth">Bing Growth</keyword> and Distribution at Microsoft, was quoted as saying in a ZDNet report on Sunday. An interactive map allows site visitors to click on the country to see the specific number of cases and related articles from a variety of publishers. Data is being aggregated from sources like the <keyword id="43588" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="World-Health-Organization">World Health Organization</keyword> (WHO), the <keyword id="2578698" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="US-Centers-for-Disease-Control">US Centers for Disease Control</keyword> and Prevention (CDC), and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Microsoft announced the website two days after US President Donald Trump said Google has begun working on COVID-19-related portal for US citizens. Google's website is being built by Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet focused on healthcare services. "More than 1,700 engineers are currently working on the site", Trump said during a press briefing last week. The tool will triage people who are concerned about their COVID-19 risk into testing sites based on guidance from public health officials and test availability. Initially there was some confusion on Google's coronavirus portal but the company later announced that it is "partnering with the US Government in developing a nationwide website that includes information about COVID-19 symptoms, risk, and testing information." --IANS na/sdr/

Now you can track coronavirus numbers globally on Microsoft Bing website

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gonococcal_urethritis_PHIL_4085_lores.jpg">CDC / Joe Millar</a>'Super gonorrhea' is spreading.</div></div></div><ul><li>The first three cases of '<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-who-warns-of-imminent-spread-of-untreatable-superbug-gonorrhoea-2017-7">super gonorrhea</a>' were recorded earlier this year.</li><li>Super gonorrhea doesn't respond to the antibiotics normally used to treat the disease.</li><li>Other antibiotic-resistant superbugs are spreading around the world.</li></ul>A strain of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea has arrived - the first three cases were recorded between February and April of this year. Two Australian men and one British man contracted the sexually transmitted infection in Southeast Asia, likely after engaging in unprotected sex, according to the <a href="https://ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/ecdc-first-detected-cases-extensively-drug-resistant-gonorrhoea-threaten-future">European Center for Disease Control</a> (ECDC). The 'super gonorrhea' strain, a bug called Neisseria gonorrhoeae, is highly difficult to treat given its resistance to the antibiotics that are often used to treat the infection.Gonorrhea is a bacterial infection that's the second most commonly diagnosed STI in the world. Symptoms include painful urination and abnormal discharge in both women and men, as well as painful or swollen testicles in men and lower abdomen pain and irregular menstruation in women. Some people, however, may carry gonorrhea without showing any symptoms. There was a total of 468,514 gonorrhea cases in the US alone in 2016, according to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/std/stats16/Gonorrhea.htm">Center for Disease Control</a>. Gonorrhea is normally treated with one of two commonly used antibiotics: azithromycin or ceftriaxone. Getting treatment for the infection is one of the best ways to prevent the spread of the disease, according to the ECDC. Leaving it untreated, however, can lead to serious complications like pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, and increased risk of HIV transmission (not to mention the possibility of spreading it to other people). <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Thomson ReutersMosquitoes containing treatment-resistant antibiotics are on the rise.</div></div></div> The infected British man is now undergoing treatment with an experimental drug called ertapenem that's usually used to treat infections after colon and rectal surgery. He <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/three-tourists-confirmed-first-global-12545085">reportedly has a girlfriend back home</a> in the UK, but his partner hasn't tested positive for the disease, reports <a href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/gonorrhea-evolving-untreatable-spd/">National Geographic</a>. The super gonorrhea is one of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/cdc-nightmare-bacteria-thats-antibiotic-resistant-discovered-in-us-2018-4">many diseases</a> that's becoming increasingly able to resist traditional antibiotics. In some parts of Southeast Asia, mosquitoes carry a strain of malaria that's becoming <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/drug-resistant-malaria-greater-mekong-southeast-asia-2017-9">more resistant</a> to treatment. And in some cases, superbugs - like <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-have-discovered-how-superbugs-develop-their-antibiotic-resistant-capabalities-2016-2">MRSA</a>, a type of staph infection - are untreatable, leaving doctors <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-who-has-ranked-the-deadliest-superbugs-in-the-world-2017-2">with few options</a> for patients.Superbugs can also spread their genes to other bacteria as they evolve, according to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/index.html">CDC</a>. According to some studies, antibiotic-resistant bugs could lead to <a href="http://www.his.org.uk/files/4514/1829/6668/AMR_Review_Paper_-_Tackling_a_crisis_for_the_health_and_wealth_of_nations_1.pdf">10 million deaths by 2050</a> if doctors and policymakers cannot figure out a way to address the problem. Fears over drug-resistant infections have led to stricter regulations on <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/fda-rule-livestock-medically-important-antibiotics-2017-1">feeding antibiotics to livestock</a> and have spurred <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/deadly-threat-antibiotic-resistance-startup-using-crispr-beat-it-2017-9">pharmaceutical companies</a> and doctors to research novel approaches to treatment, though far more work is needed. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/no-cranberry-juice-cant-treat-your-urinary-tract-infection-2016-11">Researchers finally debunked the biggest myth about cranberry juice curing UTIs</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

An antibiotic-resistant strain of 'super gonorrhea' is spreading around the globe

<ul class="summary-list"><li>UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced new national lockdown restrictions, starting in Thursday.</li><li>Johnson has succumbed to the advice of his science experts, hoping that the national measures could "save <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/christmas">Christmas</a> from the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword>." </li><li>European countries including Germany, France, and Belgium all reported record numbers of new daily infections this week.</li><li>Most European countries have either reimposed partial or full lockdowns again, with France going back to measures that were imposed during the first lockdown in March.</li></ul>UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced national lockdown restrictions as <keyword id="28249" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="europe">Europe</keyword> faces a worrying spike in coronavirus deaths and infections.The prime minister had been determined to avoid a national lockdown <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/coronavirus-deaths-could-peak-just-before-christmas-no-10-is-warned-kcwwlclxv" target="_blank" rel="noopener">but has reportedly succumbed to his scientific advisers' pressure.</a> They argued that local measures would not be enough to clamp down on rising cases and that the virus could kill 85,000 people this winter. Johnson told a press conference, almost three hours later than scheduled, that England faced "deaths of several thousand a day" if new tough measures are not adopted. "No responsible prime minister can ignore the message of those figures," he said.The other constituent parts of the UK - Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland - have already issued tougher guidelines to prevent the virus's spread.The prime minister began his statement on the new restrictions by warning that people had to be "humble in the face of nature."The second lockdown will last for four weeks, he said.Measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus include: <ul><li>All nonessential shops, restaurants, pubs and leisure facilities to close.</li><li>Schools, colleges, and universities will be allowed to stay open.</li><li>People should leave their homes for education, medical appointments, shop for essential goods, and work if they cannot work from home.</li><li>Outdoor exercise is permitted with other households.</li><li>The extension of the furlough scheme, whereby the government pays 80 percent of an employee's wages.</li></ul>The UK recorded 21,915 positive tests on Saturday and 326 deaths, <a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html">according to a tracker by Johns Hopkins University</a>. Official figures <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/oct/30/uk-coronavirus-live-job-losses-record-rate-furlough-covid?page=with:block-5f9c05208f085171f23fe924#block-5f9c05208f085171f23fe924">also showed</a> that more than half a million people were estimated to have had coronavirus in the week ending October 23.Johnson has been warned of the potential of a "massive spike" on Christmas Eve according to one projection that his government was shown, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/coronavirus-deaths-could-peak-just-before-christmas-no-10-is-warned-kcwwlclxv">reported The Times.</a> Johnson became the latest leader to impose new measures to clamp down on COVID-19 cases that are spiking not only in the UK but also in Europe.In the last two weeks, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and Sweden <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/europe-coronavirus-outbreak-france-germany-lockdowns-us-close-behind-2020-10">all reported record numbers of new daily infections.</a>France reported 49,215 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, compared with 47,637 on Thursday. The death tally went up by 256 over 24 hours to 36,565.On Wednesday, President Emmanuel Macron <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201029-macron-imposes-new-virus-lockdown-as-french-hospitals-engulfed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the country would "brutally apply the brakes" from Friday, introducing some of Europe's strictest coronavirus measures. They will run until at least December 1. According to the new rules, people will only be allowed to leave their homes to buy essential goods, medical reasons, and exercise for an hour a day. Anyone leaving their house must fill in a form to justify their reasoning, as was required during the first lockdown in March.Belgium also went on a partial lockdown on Friday after <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54752194">The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said this week</a> that the country had the highest number of coronavirus infections per 100,000 people in Europe.On Friday, Prime Minister Alexander de Croo said the "pressure on our hospitals is huge," <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54752194">according to the BBC.</a>"These are last-chance measures if we want to get the figures down," he added.Austria followed suit by implementing new coronavirus measures on Saturday, which include an 8 pm curfew. It recorded its worst day of infections — 5,627 — on Friday.Meanwhile, Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned of a "long and hard winter" as Germany also announced a partial lockdown this week, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54728893">according to the BBC.</a>Although shops will remain open for delivery, gyms, theaters, and cinemas will close and The country set a record for new daily coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, reporting 19,059 infections — up from its highest daily increase of 18,681, set the day before. It also recorded 103 more COVID-19 deaths, with its total death tally rising to 10,452 on Saturday.Coronavirus infections in Italy rose by 31,084 on Friday, a jump of over 4,000 in a day, while 199 more fatalities were recorded.The country has also been struggling with hospital admissions, which have increased by over 1,000 in a day, according to the Guardian.Sweden, which made headlines for its unconventional lockdown approach at the start of the pandemic, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-sweden-cases/sweden-sets-new-daily-covid-19-case-record-as-infections-surge-idUSL8N2HJ5RE">registered a new peak</a> of 1,980 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday.Meanwhile, the US also appears to have set a daily record for new infections on Friday, reporting nearly 90,000 new infections.It has officially passed the 9 million case mark, the highest in the world.<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-covid19-mutation-europe-infections-cases-tourists-holiday-scientists-2020-10">A mutated coronavirus strain causes most new COVID-19 infections in Europe and was spread within the continent by tourists, scientists say</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/europe-coronavirus-outbreak-france-germany-lockdowns-us-close-behind-2020-10">Europe's COVID-19 outbreak is worsening from disaster to catastrophe, as the US scrambles to contain its third wave</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/top-european-startups-where-people-want-to-work-in-2020-2020-9">These are the hottest 30 European startups to work for in 2020, according to LinkedIn data</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/europe-abandoning-donald-trump-coronavirus-world-stage-turns-towards-china-2020-5">Europe is abandoning Trump on the world stage as it turns away from the US toward China</a></li></ul>

Boris Johnson announces new lockdown for England and warns of several thousand deaths a day

The virus that causes Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), emerged in humans 2012 but has seen an alarming spike in cases recently, with the most by far clustered in Saudi Arabia and the first U.S. case reported last week. MERS is less contagious than SARS, which is <a href="http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2013/07/study-outlines-how-mers-and-sars-are-alike-differ" target="_blank">caused by a related virus</a>, but it's much more deadly.
The <a href="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/536d2099ecad04bd3f3e69ce-791-563/mers-map.png" target="_blank">map below</a>, based on <a href="http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/press/news/_layouts/forms/News_DispForm.aspx?List=8db7286c-fe2d-476c-9133-18ff4cb1b568&amp;ID=998" target="_blank">data</a> from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and supplemented with information from <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-first-case-of-mers-reported-in-lebanon---health-ministry-2014-08" target="_blank">more recent</a> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/08/us-health-saudi-mers-idUSKBN0DO0AH20140508" target="_blank">news reports</a>, shows where MERS has surfaced since 2012. Hover over countries to see the number of cases and deaths.

These MERS cases are alarming not because they're particularly widespread - this is by no means an epidemic, and the World Health Organization <a href="http://www.emro.who.int/media/news/mers-cov-mission-saudi-arabia.html" target="_blank">is not advising travel restrictions</a> - but because it's only recently that the number of cases has begun to spike.
This chart makes clear that though MERS has been around in humans since 2012, the vast majority of cases have been reported since April 2014:
<div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><a href="http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/press/news/_layouts/forms/News_DispForm.aspx?List=8db7286c-fe2d-476c-9133-18ff4cb1b568&amp;ID=998">ECDC</a></div></div>The sudden uptick has raised concerns that the virus is becoming more contagious than it was in past years, but after <a href="http://www.emro.who.int/media/news/mers-cov-mission-saudi-arabia.html" target="_blank">a recent investigation</a>, the WHO concluded that current evidence does not support that theory. Instead, experts say the spike is most likely due to increased awareness, seasonal variation, and "breaches in WHO's recommended infection prevention and control measures" in hospitals, where the disease has spread.
The vast majority of cases have occurred in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, but travelers have brought the disease home with them, carrying it as far as the United States and the Philippines. Here are the travel patterns that have brought MERS far from the Arabian Peninsula:
<div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><a href="http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/press/news/_layouts/forms/News_DispForm.aspx?List=8db7286c-fe2d-476c-9133-18ff4cb1b568&amp;ID=998">ECDC</a></div></div>
The MERS virus has been transmitted from one sick person to another in very close contact, generally a health care worker or family member, but that second person has not passed the virus along to a third person in any case that health officials are aware of.
Since different health care systems verify MERS incidents independently, the total number of cases varies depending on the source. As of May 7, the World Health Organization <a href="http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_05_07_mers_jordan/en/" target="_blank">reported 496 confirmed</a> cases around the world, but that number is regularly updated as new cases are confirmed and reflects a conservative estimate of the total.
Just yesterday, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/08/us-health-saudi-mers-idUSKBN0DO0AH20140508" target="_blank">another 32 cases were reported</a> in Saudi Arabia.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">APHealth workers spay insecticide in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.</div></div></div>Parts of Latin and South America are in the middle of an <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/zika-virus-local-transmission-cases-2016-1" target="_blank">outbreak of the Zika Virus that's spread by mosquito bites</a>.The virus is particularly dangerous for pregnant women whose fetuses are susceptible to a condition called microcephaly.According to the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/microcephaly.html" target="_blank">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>, microcephaly is a birth defect in which a baby's head and brain are smaller and less-developed than others of the same age. At the moment, there are no vaccines to prevent, and no medicines to treat the Zika virus. Thus far, 24 countries worldwide - including Mexico and Brazil - have reported active transmissions of the Zika virus. Now airlines are reacting to the outbreak by offering passengers with tickets to infected regions the opportunity to change their plans, free of charge.Here's what a few of the world's largest airlines are doing in reaction to the outbreak.<h2>American Airlines:</h2>American Airlines' policy will allow a customer to receive a refund if they provide a doctor's note stating that they are unable to travel to affected countries or territories due to their pregnancy.Affected countries include Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela."We are also closely monitoring the situation, and will make changes to our current policy if necessary," American told Business Insider in an email.<h2>Delta Air Lines:</h2>In response to the Zika outbreak, Delta issued the following travel advisory:Customers with current reservations who are concerned about traveling to destinations reported by the CDC to be affected by Zika Viral Illness should call 1-800-221-1212 (U.S.) or your local Reservations office and speak with a Delta Representative. Customers may qualify for a change to alternate destinations, travel dates or a refund. Customers may make fee-waived changes to future reservations/tickets. However, changes need to be made by February 29, 2016.<h2>United Airlines:</h2>United Airlines has not issued an advisory for the affected areas, but the airline will offer refunds to customers who are pregnant, who no longer wish to travel. Pregnant women with tickets to affected areas can receive refunds," An United spokesperson told Business Insider via email. "Rather than issuing an advisory, we ask customers to reach out to us directly."<h2>Air France:</h2>In response to the outbreak, Air France has issued to following statement to Business Insider:Air France confirms that the Zika virus has had no impact on its flight operations and service to the destinations concerned. The Company continues to closely monitor the situation, and is in direct contact with the French and international health authorities (French Health Ministry, WHO, CDC, ECDC, IATA, etc.). Announcements are made on board flights to the regions affected by the virus to inform customers about the precautionary measures to observe. Flight crews have also been informed about these same measures.<h2>British Airways:</h2>"If a pregnant customer is due to travel up to and including February 29, but they no longer wish to travel," British Airways said in an email to Business Insider. "They can change their booking free of charge and delay their journey or amend to an alternative destination." "This applies to flights to Brazil, Mexico, Barbados and Dominican Republic, and we will continue to review the situation."<h2>Here are all the countries affected by Zika virus outbreak:</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image">Dylan Roach/Business Insider</div></div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/head-shrinking-zika-virus-is-coming-to-the-us-2016-1">An infectious disease specialist told us the best ways to protect yourself from the untreatable Zika virus</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="FyMjhoMDE6bUDx8g1aOELFiH-Xh2sTx8" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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