The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that norovirus has broken out on a cruise ship touring the Caribbean. More than 100 passengers and 10 crew members have already been felled by the contagious stomach flu.
A 21-year-old Dutch backpacker may have triggered an outbreak of measles in Panama. The young traveler returned last week from a long tour of South America and reported with symptoms of high fever, coughing and a blown-out rash. Doctors quickly diagnosed measles shortly after arriving in Panama City. Subsequently, the young Dutchman was placed in isolation. This is the first time in a long time that the contagious disease has appeared in the Central American country.
The World Health Organization, in an official report it published Monday on its channels, confirmed that the 69-year-old Dutch woman who died on the cruise ship was indeed infected with the hantavirus.
A new study, published as a 'Reviewed Preprint' in eLife, brings together the largest dataset to date on how crabs propel themselves. The analysis shows that lateral walking in 'true crabs' (Brachyura) can be traced back to a single evolutionary origin in a common ancestor, some 200 million years ago.
American news company McClatchy is using artificial intelligence to rewrite articles by their journalists. Journalists refuse to put their names above the edited articles.
Three people on board the Dutch cruise ship m/v Hondius of shipping company Oceanwide Expeditions have died due to a respiratory infection. They became ill possibly due to a hantavirus infection. Two of the deceased have Dutch nationality. They are a man of 70 and a woman of 69. This was confirmed by a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Should OpenAI have been allowed to become a commercial company? This question is the stakes in a court case between two of the most influential tech billionaires on the planet: head of Tesla and X Elon Musk and chief executive of ChatGPT maker OpenAI Sam Altman.
The World Health Organization has made the matter public, stating that investigations are underway with the support of local partners.
As the Institut Supérieur de la Santé explains, glaucoma is a disease that progressively damages the optic nerve, slowly but severely.
La mission Artemis II n’est pas seulement le retour de l’humanité en orbite lunaire après plus d’un demi-siècle, mais aussi un vol chargé de premières historiques et symboliques.