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Jonathan Van Ness thinks the US government's response to the monkeypox outbreak has been "fuelled by homophobia". The 35-year-old TV star has blasted the government's "botched response" to the health crisis in an essay for TIME magazine. He wrote: "Watching the government's botched response to monkeypox has been surreal, and in many ways, I believe it's been fuelled by homophobia and transphobia.

Jonathan Van Ness is not taking the government’s response to the monkeypox outbreak lightly!

Two Scots nurseries have been closed following an outbreak of E Coli which has left a number of children in hospital.

John Oliver addressed the increasing numbers of monkeypox cases in the U.S. on Sunday night’s episode of HBO Max’s Last Week Tonight. The comedian expressed his frustration that “despite the fact we’re still in the middle of the COVID pandemic, we seem to be replicating some of its key mistakes.”

Since early May, more than 23,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported worldwide. This is the largest ever global outbreak of the disease.

UPDATED: While daily Covid cases across L.A. County have plummeted by 50% in the past week, the outbreak at Warner Bros. has continued to grow, according to the Public Health Department’s dashboard.

As the world continues to deal with a monkeypox outbreak, one Japanese city is dealing with a literal monkey outbreak — and these primates ain’t monkeying around!

The European Union’s Court of Justice has overruled a bid by the French branch of Russian-state-controlled international news network Russia Today (RT) to overturn a measure prohibiting it from broadcasting across the bloc.

about that shortage, which explains in part that the United States procures a sizable number of the needed vaccines from Denmark, but said vaccines are live vaccines and require intense cold to keep them useful. And apparently, facilities in the United States aren’t as cold as the ones in Denmark, which means if the government ordered too many, a lot would go to waste.“So if all the doses were not necessary for the outbreak, their shelf life would be dramatically shortened,” one official told the New York Times.Colbert spent some time lightly poking fun at how the U.S.

A mum says she felt “like a monster” - even hiding her face from her daughter - when an attack of cystic acne refused to respond to antibiotics. Now she is finally able to leave the house after her mother treated her to an £85 “miracle cure".

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency and issued guidelines to tackle the spread of the virus, including empowering the LGBTQ+ community with knowledge.

Macklemore suffered an addiction relapse during the COVID-19 outbreak. The 'Thrift Shop' rapper has spent years battling drink and drug issues and previously spent time in rehab in a bid to tackle his demons, but he's now revealed he experienced a set back during the summer of 2020 after the pandemic hit but has since got sober again. He made the revelation in a video posted on TikTok to his new song 'CHANT', writing: "I relapsed during the first summer of COVID.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday declared a global health emergency over the rapid spread of monkeypox.

In a bid to stop the spread of bird flu in Scotland, conservationists have banned visitors from 23 islands.

Social activity during freshers' week likely contributed to a large Covid-19 outbreak among students living at student accommodation, a study has found.

Staff at a Manchester city centre Lidl say they have been forced to bar schoolkids from entering the store after outbreaks of anti-social behaviour from pupils.

More than 1,200 cases of monkeypox have been reported across the UK as the outbreak continues to grow. While the majority of suspected cases so far have been identified in London, there is a contingent of cases being reported by GPs and patients in the North West - and a handful of suspected cases in Greater Manchester.

Zidane Iqbal has signed a new contract with Manchester United six months after making his debut.

Gay and bisexual men in Scotland who are considered at higher risk of catching monkeypox are set to be offered a vaccine.

Last-ditch talks have failed to resolve the dispute over pay, jobs and conditions meaning thousands of rail workers will walk out on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The strikes are the biggest outbreak of industrial action on the railways for a generation.

An outbreak of fatal tuberculosis (TB) has killed one person at a UK university with three more students testing positive.

Levels of coronavirus have risen this week in the UK, with an estimated 1.4 million people in private households estimated to have had the virus last week. Infections were likely to have been caused by the BA.4 and BA.5 strains of the Omicron variant, the Office for National Statistics has said.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaUniversal’s “Jurassic World Dominion” roared to $18 million in Thursday previews.The sixth film in the dino-saga is expected to loom large at the domestic box office this weekend, but it could be blistered by bad reviews and the continued popularity of “Top Gun: Maverick,” which is still soaring in its third week of release. “Jurassic World Dominion” is expected to generate $125 million in stateside ticket sales from 4,600 theaters across North America.Of course, “Jurassic World Dominion” enters the fray with an impressive box office legacy to live up to in terms of its debut.

Trains from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston could be cancelled if a new strike by Avanti West Coast employees takes place next month. A total of 300 members of the rail union TSSA are being balloted in a a dispute over pay, conditions and job security.

Scots visiting the coast have been urged to stay away from sick or dead birds over fears of Avian Influenza.

Heartbreaking images have emerged of dead puffins and gannets washed ashore in Scotland's North East as avian flu continues to ravage wild bird populations.

Bird flu has spread to the Isle of St Kilda after a breakout among the Shetland Isles.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Universal Beijing Resort is poised to reopen next week after being closed due to the coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese capital.The resort – comprising the Universal Studios Beijing theme park, Citywalk retail and entertainment area and two hotels – is set to restart operations on June 15, it announced Tuesday via its Chinese social media accounts. It has been closed since May 1.The park will be allowed to operate at no more than 75% capacity.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed that 77 additional cases of the monkeypox virus have been discovered in the UK, bringing the total to 302.

Cases of monkeypox have tripled around the world - with Europe at the epicentre of the outbreak.

As the Jubilee weekend reaches its climax, the Met Office has warned that all boroughs across Greater Manchester could be hit by thunderstorms and bad weather for the whole day. A yellow thunderstorm weather warning has been issued for large parts of England, including the North West and Greater Manchester.

The Jubilee bank holiday weekend is set to bring more high temperatures and plenty of sunshine. Highs of 17C are expected all across Greater Manchester today with very little rain to dampen spirits.

Even as some studios, networks and agencies contemplate a return to the office, others are seeing Covid outbreaks among employees as cases surge across Los Angeles.

While the international monkeypox outbreak has yet to reach South Africa, there are concerns that the disease is being used to stigmatise gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM).

Dozens of dead birds have been left scattered across the Isle of Foula after a bird flu outbreak.

Parents are asked to keep an eye out for possible measles symptoms as cases are on the rise around the world.