Global health correspondent @Reuters, formerly @TelGlobalHealth and @Channel4News, briefly in Myanmar
Joined August 2010
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13 Sep 2023
DEATH BY THE DOSE - toxic cough syrup made in India has killed scores of children. Here's how this happened - and why no-one has been held to account w/@krishnadas56
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In an Ebola outbreak, WHO guidelines say even hours matter.
Yet the response to the deadly and fast-spreading epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is weeks if not months behind - and missing thousands of people who may be at risk.
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Jennifer Rigby retweeted
🚨 The @AfricaCDC statement on the new #Ebola outbreak in #DRC is deeply concerning.
🔬 This is a non-Zaire ebolavirus outbreak
🧪 13 of 20 samples tested positive
⚠️ 246 suspected cases reported
🕊️ 65 deaths, including 4 laboratory workers
This highlights the urgent need for enhanced surveillance, rapid diagnostics, infection prevention and control, and protection of frontline healthcare and laboratory personnel.
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A flowchart from an epidemiologist on when to worry about hantavirus nytimes.com/2026/05/07/opini…
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Reuters reports the Trump adminstration wants to condition any future funding to @gavi on the organization agreeing to phase out use of vaccines containing the preservative thimerosal. I wrote late last year about how unnecessary & impractical that would be. statnews.com/2025/11/19/rfk-…
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The Trump administration has told global vaccine group Gavi to phase out shots containing the preservative thimerosal as a condition of providing the group with funding, a U.S. official and a Gavi spokesperson told Reuters. reuters.com/business/healthc…
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30 Sep 2025
I’m launching an Ultra-Processed Snack bar today with @thebodycoach - it’s got 96 ingredients and over 200 health claims. My piece in the @DailyMail explains why -
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1 Oct 2025
As a result of President Trump’s suspension of foreign aid, hundreds of USAID shipments of antimalarial and HIV medical supplies arrived late at regional warehouses in dozens of countries.
Many did not arrive at all. The consequences were deadly. wapo.st/3KspxBZ
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2 Oct 2025
Nine-month old baby Mohamat had malaria - before, he might have been diagnosed earlier by a community health worker, or treated with the right medicine. But instead, he died reuters.com/business/healthc…
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30 Jul 2025
On Gaza malnutrition ward, a child's limb is as wide as mother's thumb reuters.com/business/healthc…
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23 Jul 2025
U.S.-funded contraceptives valued at nearly $10 million will be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the UN and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations. @jriggers, @JonathanLanday and I report for @Reuters reuters.com/legal/litigation…
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2 Jul 2025
The floor is lava - how modern urban cities heat up and stay hot when the temperature rises reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE…
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22 May 2025
Gavi & Global Fund talk about merging functions to face global health cash crisis reuters.com/business/healthc…
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7 Mar 2025
Nigeria to receive leprosy drugs after a year-long delay reut.rs/3DpMMJD reut.rs/3DpMMJD
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14 Feb 2025
Medical oxygen that could help hundreds of thousands of adults and children worldwide with often life-threatening breathing problems is stalled at several points in the supply chain after the USAID freeze - reuters.com/world/us/usaid-d…
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6 Feb 2025
Trump team considers pushing for WHO reforms, including an American in charge, to stay in the agency reuters.com/world/trump-team…
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