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Mpox: New case of Clade 1b strain detected in UK | UK News
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Another case of the new strain of mpox has been detected in the UK, health officials have said. It brings the total number of confirmed cases of the Clade 1b variant in the UK to four. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said all of the cases belonged to the same household. Image: A boy…
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Mpox: More cases of new Clade 1b strain detected in UK | UK News
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Two more cases of a new strain of mpox have been detected in the UK, officials say. Last week, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said a single case of the mpox virus variant Clade 1b had been confirmed in London. The agency has now announced a further two cases – in household contacts of…
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Mpox: First case of Clade 1b strain detected in London | UK News
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A case of a new strain of mpox has been detected in the UK for the first time, it has been announced. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said a single case of the mpox virus variant Clade 1b was detected in London. There was no evidence of community transmission from the patient, who is…
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New strain of swine flu detected in person for first time in UK | UK News
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A new strain of swine flu – similar to a flu virus currently circulating in pigs – has been detected in a human in the UK for the first time. The person was diagnosed with the infection – influenza A(H1N2)v – as part of routine national flu surveillance after visiting their GP in North Yorkshire…
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Scientists baffled after extremely high-energy particle detected falling to Earth | Science & Tech News
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A rare and extremely high-energy particle has been detected falling to Earth by astronomers. Named after the Japanese sun goddess, Amaterasu, it is one of the highest-energy cosmic rays ever detected, according to scientists. The Amaterasu particle has an energy exceeding 240 exa-electron volts (EeV) and comes only second in recorded history to the Oh-My-God…
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Fast radio burst: Astronomers spot most distant cosmic phenomenon detected so far in distant galaxy | Science & Tech News
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Astronomers have spotted the most distant fast radio burst (FRB) to date in a galaxy so far away that its light took eight billion years to reach Earth. The remote blast of cosmic radio waves, whose source was detected by the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), lasted less than a millisecond. It…
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Mysterious dark spot on Neptune detected from Earth for first time | Science & Tech News
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Scientists have detected a mysterious dark spot on Neptune from Earth for the first time. The large, dark area is within Neptune’s atmosphere and next to an unexpected, smaller bright spot, experts have said. Spots are common on giant planets – the most famous being Jupiter’s Great Red Spot – but experts say this is…