Health warning issued as new virus detected in UK for the first time
The UK Health Security Agency reported three cases between January and June this year, all in individuals who had returned from Brazil.
Typically found in South America, the virus can cause severe symptoms including high fever, headaches, and in rare instances, meningitis and death.
It is primarily spread through bites from midges and some mosquitos, with concerns about sexual and mother-to-baby transmission.
There is no cure, but preventative measures such as using insect repellent with 50 per cent DEET and protective clothing are advised for travellers to affected areas.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
The Independent
3 minutes ago
- The Independent
Heat health alerts extended across much of England
Heat health alerts have been extended across much of England until Monday evening due to ongoing high temperatures. Temperatures are forecast to reach around 30C in parts of south-west England on Saturday and 29C on Sunday. The warnings highlight potential significant impacts on health and social care services, including a possible increase in deaths among vulnerable individuals. England is experiencing "nationally significant" water shortfalls, leading to widespread environmental and agricultural issues. A major wildfire in Dorset, requiring assistance from fire crews nationwide, has raised concerns about the impact of austerity on firefighting resources.
BBC News
3 minutes ago
- BBC News
Meet the acrobat making aerial skills accessible
The director of a community circus skills provider aims to break down the financial and physical barriers to take part in her Cliffe from Kinetic Heights CIC has run free workshops with specialised equipment throughout the team of instructors have disabilities and neurodivergence and understand the importance of accessibility.'We all came together as a collective to start something where we could give back to the community and work with those marginalised groups,' she explained. 'There wasn't something like that for us when we were younger,' she explained. As a child, Ms Cliffe said she struggled to engage in PE sessions after being involved in a car crash.'I really struggle with keeping focus on things and I had to find something to help me build my muscles back up,' she remembered.'I found circus completely on a whim and I just fell in love with it because it felt like doing exercise but it was fun.'Ms Cliffe enjoyed the activity so much that she was a self-employed instructor for six years before co-founding Kinetic Heights.'It really does help with mobility, physical, mental and social well-being,' she said. Whether out in the community or at their base at All Saints Community Hall in Hanley, the team have accessible variations of equipment to suit all her instructors are also trained in circus training therapy, helpful when teaching neurodivergent children.'We have non-verbal children feeling comfortable in the space to be able to be the most chirpy, cheeky child in the class.''Honestly, it's the dream I've worked towards it for so long,' she to the One Stoke Grant Project, supported by the Staffordshire Community Foundation, the non-profit organisation are able to offer free workshops until January 2026.
Daily Mail
34 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
‘My body was either too sick or too exhausted to process the idea of flavour': Jack Burke reveals how three rounds of chemotherapy destroyed his love of eating
Order whatever you want, love,' the trolley lady said, 'I've seen it before. Lads like you; this is often the last time you'll be able to eat.' She slid the menu onto my hospital bed before trundling off. I'd just checked in to London 's Royal Marsden for a three-night stay, surely the world's most depressing mini-break. I was 26, recently diagnosed with stage 3 testicular cancer, and about to begin three rounds of chemotherapy. I arrived on the ward, one bollock lighter, with a freshly inserted PICC line and a naïve sense of optimism.
