As the recent surge in cases of dengue fever continues across Latin America and the Caribbean, Puerto Rico declares a public health emergency.
Claudia Hammond is joined by Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology at Boston University, Matt Fox, to hear how warmer temperatures have lead to outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease around the world, with millions of cases reported so far this year.
We speak to the artist Jason Wilsher-Mills at his latest exhibition inspired by his childhood experiences of disability, and hear the role it played in his journey into the arts.
Claudia and Matt discuss the spread of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with cases reported in all but 3 of the country’s 26 provinces.
We hear from Uganda about the project hoping to help provide essential equipment for safe anaesthesia in children’s surgery.
And the study that says just two nights of broken sleep are enough to make us feel years older.
Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Dan Welsh
Next generation Covid vaccines
What brain scans tell us
Monkeypox misinformation and stigma
Monkeypox in central Africa
Healthcare provision in North Korea
New trial results of a fourth Covid booster
Combined protection of Covid vaccination and prior infection
New Covid Research
Are we kinder to people like us?
More cases of Covid in Africa than official figures suggest
Treating stress and anxiety in Ukraine
What should Hong Kong do about Covid-19?
The kindness test: The results
How children think about maths and time
Helping children cope with anxiety about war in Ukraine
Why measles is sweeping through Afghanistan
Pig organs for transplant patients
Black women and breast cancer
Bringing death back into life
Gene therapy hope for sickle cell patients
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