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41 storiesFive people hospitalized in St Petersburg over suspected monkeypox case
Five people have been hospitalized in St Petersburg in connection with a possible case of monkeypox, the regional Rospotrebnadzor office said. They are under medical observation while specialists trace contacts as part of an epidemiological…
Five hospitalised after contact with suspected mpox case in Moscow region
Five people who had contact with a person suspected of having mpox have been hospitalised in the Moscow region, the regional health ministry said. The patients have no clinical symptoms, and the regional public health authority has opened a…
Shelekhov hospital quarantined over suspected “particularly dangerous infection”
The inpatient unit of a district hospital in Shelekhov, in Russia's Irkutsk region, is under quarantine after a suspected case of a “particularly dangerous infection” that officials have not identified. Regional authorities held an emergenc…
Russia's Rospotrebnadzor asks Vietnam for data on Coxsackie cases at Cam Ranh hotel
Rospotrebnadzor, Russia's consumer and public health watchdog, said it sent requests to Vietnam's health ministry and to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) after reports of Coxsackie virus symptoms in several Russian tourist…
Rospotrebnadzor denies reports of a second illness case in Russia's Irkutsk region
Rospotrebnadzor said on 8 October that social media reports of a second case of illness, in a contact of an Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute employee who had been diagnosed with pneumonia, were untrue. The agency said medical observation of al…
Five children from Balashikha rehabilitation centre hospitalised with suspected rotavirus
Five children from the Balashikhinsky social services and rehabilitation centre in Balashikha were taken to an infectious diseases ward on October 8 with a preliminary diagnosis of rotavirus infection, the centre's director Olga Sadilova to…
Pope Leo XIV returns to hospital room after successful lung surgery in Rome
Pope Leo XIV successfully underwent surgery to remove a lung nodule at Rome's Gemelli hospital on October 13, according to reports citing the Holy See. His recovery is expected to take about a week.
Kremlin: Russia informed WHO of Irkutsk region situation after worker death
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia has informed the World Health Organization about the situation in the Irkutsk region, following the death of an employee of the Irkutsk anti-plague institute. Peskov also said he had no informatio…
Rospotrebnadzor calls Irkutsk region situation stable after reports of plague
Rospotrebnadzor said the sanitary-epidemiological situation in Irkutsk Oblast, including the cities of Irkutsk and Shelekhov, is stable, in connection with the case of an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far …
Federation Council speaker asks Finance Ministry to raise ambulance fleet funding
Federation Council speaker Valentina Matviyenko asked Finance Minister Anton Siluanov to consider increasing funding to renew Russia's ambulance vehicle fleet, speaking at parliamentary hearings on the draft federal budget for 2027–2029. Sh…
Roszdravnadzor denies shortage of anti-anxiety drug Atarax in Russia
Roszdravnadzor said there are no signs of a shortage of the prescription anti-anxiety drug Atarax in Russia, according to Kommersant, Vedomosti and RBC. The regulator said more than 512,000 Atarax packages are in civil circulation and that …
Rospotrebnadzor says Russia ready to help US fight infectious disease outbreaks
Russia's consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said Russia is ready to help the United States respond to outbreaks of infectious diseases, offering specialists, laboratory equipment and diagnostic and preventive supplies. The agency cite…
TASS: Coach Tatyana Tarasova hospitalised third time in a month
Tatyana Tarasova, the 79-year-old Honoured Coach of the USSR in figure skating, is in hospital again, TASS reported on 5 October, citing a source who said her condition could not yet be stabilised. Kommersant described it as the third hospi…
Kremlin urges reliance on official statements amid Irkutsk infection rumors
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Rospotrebnadzor is the competent agency on the situation in the Irkutsk region and that people should follow its official statements rather than rumors and speculation. The comments follow the death of a…
Trump says US ready to help Russia after pneumonia case in Irkutsk region
US President Donald Trump said Washington could support Russia after a case of pneumonia of unknown etiology was detected in the Irkutsk region. Russia's Rospotrebnadzor said the sanitary situation in Irkutsk and Shelekhov is stable, and th…
Russia's Health Ministry puts three-year healthcare funding at 28.6 trillion rubles
Russia's Health Ministry said funding for the healthcare section from all sources of the budget system will total 28.6 trillion rubles in 2027–2029, RIA Novosti and TASS reported. Vedomosti said annual funding rises from 8.9 trillion rubles…
FMBA head says Russia's ragweed allergy vaccine is close to release
The head of Russia's Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA), Veronika Skvortsova, said a vaccine against ragweed allergy is “on the way”, speaking at the Bioprom forum in Gelendzhik. She said it could reach the market after Russia's first…
Irkutsk anti-plague institute worker has pneumonia, no work pathogens found
Rospotrebnadzor said an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East has been diagnosed with pneumonia of unspecified etiology, and that tests found no microorganisms linked to her professional activity. The age…
WHO says more than 170 million children and adolescents worldwide live with obesity
The World Health Organization says more than 170 million children and adolescents aged 5 to 19 worldwide have been diagnosed with obesity, with prevalence in that age group rising fourfold since 1990, from 2% to about 8%. The WHO issued gui…
Russia endocrinology centre says 6.1 million adults registered with diabetes
RBC reported that the press service of the National Medical Research Centre for Endocrinology said more than 6.1 million adults in Russia are registered with diabetes. Earlier the same day, TASS quoted the chief freelance endocrinologist fo…