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A new study by WHO, published today in Lancet Global Health, has found that investing US$6bn per year in eliminating hepatitis in 67 low- and middle-income countries would avert 4.5 million premature deaths by 2030, and more than 26 million deaths beyond that target date.

A malaria strain resistant to two key drugs is rapidly spreading from Cambodia to Vietnam, Laos and northern Thailand, with the "terrifying prospect" to reach Africa, scientists warned today, quoted by BTA.

The number of confirmed West Nile Virus infections has risen to five since June 21, according to the National Organization for Public Health (EODY).
The cases were reported in the northern regions of Katerini, Xanthi and Kavala, as well as in Larissa and Karditsa in central Greece.

Experiments with monkeys have given encouraging results, writes NOVA TV. 

A new HIV vaccine launches tests on people, hoping to find a cure for the disease, write Daily Old and Daily News.

Since nearly 40 years ago the AIDS epidemic has started, only four vaccines have reached the stage of being tested on humans. None of them proved effective.

Hepatitis boom near the sea. Dozens of people are registered in the Kableshkovo quarter of Burgas, Nova TV reported. According to local residents, the problem is in the old sewerage, but according to the health authorities the infection started from the local community centre.

A "Let's find the missing 69,000" campaign which aims to detect hepatitis C infected patients starts. Free examinations will be provided within the framework of the initiative, which will start tomorrow and will continue until the end of August. The campaign targets people between 34 and 69 years of age. The research will be carried out at the St.

The Athens Medical Association (ISA) has expressed concern after the National Public Health Organization confirmed last Friday that two people have been infected with the West Nile Virus so far this year - in northern Greece's Katerini and Xanthi regions.

Croatian police regularly prevent migrants from crossing the country's border, sometimes using violence, rights groups say. That has created a bottleneck in Bosnia.

Though the numbers are not on the scale of 2015, when the migrant crisis was at its height, Bosnia, and particularly its northwestern Una-Sana Canton, has struggled to cope.

Worrying data about young people and drugs. Every fourth student in our country has smoked marijuana, according to latest research. According to statistics, over 25% of young people have used a drug.
 

Part-time TV presenter, miracle cure salesman and budding politician Kyriakos Velopoulos wants to build a wall to keep migrants out of Greece. Lace it with mines, he says. He would also call a referendum on the death penalty for drug dealers and pedophiles.