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Myanmar Foreign Minister excluded from ASEAN-India meeting – The Hindu

The Foreign Minister of Myanmar was not part of the 24th ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)-India Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) held in New Delhi on Wednesday, an official source has confirmed. Myanmar’s representation at the meeting was in focus as India had been under pressure to avoid Myanmar’s inclusion in the high-level meeting. The other factor behind Myanmar’s absence is the souring ASEAN-Myanmar ties that were affected beginning with the February 1, 2021 coup that overthrew the Aung San Suu Kyi government in Myanmar.

Source: Myanmar Foreign Minister excluded from ASEAN-India meeting – The Hindu

Quebec expands monkeypox vaccination efforts as virus continues to spread | CBC News

With 132 confirmed cases in Quebec, the province’s interim director of public health says the spread of monkeypox is slowly progressing every day and now vaccination efforts are expanding to men who expect to have sexual contact with other men in Montreal this summer.

Quebec has 40,000 doses of the vaccine and Montreal officials expect 25,000 doses will cover the target population in the city.

“There are certainly cases we haven’t seen because it is an insidious disease that doesn’t show many symptoms,” said Dr. Luc Boileau during a news conference Monday.

Montreal’s public health director, Dr. Mylène Drouin, said the city is the epicentre of the North American outbreak.

So far, more than 3,000 vaccine doses have been administered, with officials focusing on those who may have been exposed to the virus. Now, the vaccine is available to any man who may have sex with other men in the coming months, said Drouin.

“By enlarging the vaccination, we are trying to prevent the spread, knowing that we will have visitors, we will have different events, that will put people at risk,” she said.

“I don’t know that we can have zero cases, but we think we can at least manage the current outbreak and minimize the number of new cases.”

 

Source: Quebec expands monkeypox vaccination efforts as virus continues to spread | CBC News

WHO convenes experts to decide if monkeypox is an emergency | AP News

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Tuesday he decided to convene the emergency committee on June 23 because the virus has shown “unusual” recent behavior by spreading in countries well beyond parts of Africa where it is endemic.

“We believe that it needs also some coordinated response because of the geographic spread,” he told reporters.

Declaring monkeypox to be an international health emergency would give it the same designation as the COVID-19 pandemic and mean that WHO considers the normally rare disease a continuing threat to countries globally.

The U.K. said Monday it had 470 cases of monkeypox across the country, with the vast majority in gay or bisexual men. British scientists said last week they could not tell if the spread of the disease in the U.K. had peaked.

 

Source: WHO convenes experts to decide if monkeypox is an emergency | AP News

What are the factors causing us to pay more for food? –

High Path Avian Influenza has reduced poultry flocks, killing 40 million birds. Many of them are egg-laying hens.

“This is showing up in the retail egg sector. Most of the birds lost, approximately 40 million, have been among laying hens. We have had about two million lost this month so far, so we are still not entirely sure what the trajectory of this outbreak is going to look like and how it is going to affect egg prices, but so far we can see that it’s already increased egg prices substantially. There was a 10 percent increase last month, a five percent increase this month, bringing us to a year-over-year change of 32.2 percent.”

Chicken prices are up 17 percent on the year and are still rising. USDA says we have not seen these kinds of increases since 1980.

 

Source: What are the factors causing us to pay more for food? –

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Offline: WHO’s erasure of Palestinians must cease – The Lancet

…Despite being a member of WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO), the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)—3·2 million people in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and 2·2 million people in the Gaza Strip—is absent from WHO’s data. There is only one mention of the oPt: in a single chart of crude death rates for COVID-19. But elsewhere, in tables of indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals, annexes of global health estimates, and even in the list of EMRO members, the Palestinian people have been entirely erased…

…I asked WHO why it excluded Palestinians from their World Health Statistics. EMRO replied that “oPt is recognised as a member of EMRO countries and oPt is included in all EMRO reports and data”. So why does WHO Headquarters erase Palestinians from their official statistics? No credible reason was offered. WHO acknowledges that the oPt is a place of sufficient population size to warrant inclusion. The agency will review the oPt’s status for future reports…

Source: Offline: WHO’s erasure of Palestinians must cease – The Lancet

Risk of myocarditis and pericarditis after the COVID-19 mRNA vaccination in the USA: a cohort study in claims databases – ScienceDirect (“the incidence was rare”)

Findings

A total of 411 myocarditis or pericarditis, or both, events were observed among 15,148,369 people aged 18–64 years who received 16 912 716 doses of BNT162b2 and 10 631 554 doses of mRNA-1273. Among men aged 18–25 years, the pooled incidence rate was highest after the second dose, at 1·71 (95% CI 1·31 to 2·23) per 100 000 person-days for BNT162b2 and 2·17 (1·55 to 3·04) per 100 000 person-days for mRNA-1273. The pooled IRR in the head-to-head comparison of the two mRNA vaccines was 1·43 (95% CI 0·88 to 2·34), with an excess risk of 27·80 per million doses (–21·88 to 77·48) in mRNA-1273 recipients compared with BNT162b2.

Interpretation

An increased risk of myocarditis or pericarditis was observed after COVID-19 mRNA vaccination and was highest in men aged 18–25 years after a second dose of the vaccine. However, the incidence was rare. These results do not indicate a statistically significant risk difference between mRNA-1273 and BNT162b2, but it should not be ruled out that a difference might exist. Our study results, along with the benefit–risk profile, continue to support vaccination using either of the two mRNA vaccines.

 

Source: Risk of myocarditis and pericarditis after the COVID-19 mRNA vaccination in the USA: a cohort study in claims databases – ScienceDirect