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Following a large-scale study conducted on the COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in Türkiye, experts have stressed that some 58 percent of individuals who developed serious illnesses were unvaccinated.

The results of one of the largest studies in the country showing the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine were announced.

Europe recorded almost as many locally caught cases of dengue in 2022 as it had over the previous 11 years, new figures from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) show.

Amid rising concerns over increasing measles cases in the country, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has refuted recent media reports claiming deaths resulting from measles in the country, stating that the allegations are baseless and do not reflect the truth.

With Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, around the corner, an infectious disease specialist warns people to follow meat hygiene practices carefully to avoid contracting bacterial or virus infections.

Prof. Dr. Yaşar Bayındır, an infectious diseases specialist, has listed the most important things to consider in the days before Eid al-Adha.

Packages of the cocaine seized by Australian police on the cargo ship St Pinot. Photo: Australian Federal Police.Photo: Australian Federal Police

Australian authorities reported that Pinot's captain, M. B., and its chief engineer, R.V., both from Montenegro, were charged with smuggling cocaine worth 375 million US dollars, believed to have come from South America.

In other news, a Republican senator blocks US arms sale to Hungary for stalling Sweden's NATO bid; Slovakia's caretaker government fails to win a confidence vote, but will stay in office with reduced powers until the autumn election; and Polish women take to the streets again to protest abortion laws following the tragic death in hospital of another pregnant women.

New cases of Covid-19 dropped slightly over the week of June 5-11, according to the weekly report by the National Public Health Organization (EODY), published on Thursday.

Thousands of people protested in Poland against strict abortion laws after the death of a pregnant woman, DPA reported.

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Istanbul hospitals have recently been faced with an alarming increase in measles cases amid the rising anti-vaccination movements, while if the measles vaccination rates fall below 95 percent, an epidemic might outbreak, an expert has warned.

The health authorities in Greece reported the deaths of children infected with the streptococcal type A bacteria. It is recommended that parents limit the contact of their children.