Dengue fever

• Known as the world's deadliest animal, mosquitoes also love Florida, and carry deadly diseases like malaria, West Nile virus, and dengue fever.
• This week is Florida Mosquito Control Awareness Week , highlighting the incredible science, training and resources dedicated to combating the world's most dangerous animal.
• Mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths than any another animal, killing nearly a quarter of a million people globally each year .
• "It is a true honor to host these passionate, dedicated professionals in Florida," said Dr. Rui-De Xue, AMCD Executive Director.

• Although it is early, the day is already unseasonably warm, the sky hazy with smoke from hazard-reduction burns to the south and north of the city.
• Walking to the water’s edge I wade out and dive, then stroke outwards until my breath gives out and I surface with a gasp.
• There is something very particular about looking back towards the shore from deeper water.
• Amid the convulsions of COVID, a hastening wave of calamity has made it clear that the first stages of climate breakdown are upon us.
• Food production will decline markedly, especially in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and Central and South America.
• Warming and acidifying waters will severely impact the fisheries that provide one-third of the world with their principal source of protein.

A shift

• Attempting to comprehend its immensity and fluid multiplicity alters us, making it possible to glimpse new continuities and connections.
• As the late Sven Lindqvist observes in his interrogation of the racist and genocidal foundations of European imperialism, “It is not knowledge we lack.
• It is the courage to understand what we know and draw conclusions.” In other words, the path through involves more than just a shift in energy sources.
• It begins in a reckoning with the past, and demands a far more fundamental reorganisation of the global economy, a shift to a model that operates within planetary boundaries and shares resources for the benefit of all.
• Such a shift is not impossible.

Beauty and astonishment

• How do we make sense of the disappearance of coral reefs, of dying kelp and collapsing ecosystems?
• How do we imagine a world in which the massing life that once inhabited not just the oceans but the earth and the sky is largely gone?
• More than that, however, the act of openness creates the possibility of love and joy and – improbably – wonder.
• However much has been lost, the world still hums with beauty and astonishment.

• No less importantly, it is to recognise that despair is also a form of turning away.
• Yet, like the scientists working to save coral reefs, he said he did not know what else he could do.

• Instead, grief must be part of a larger recognition that there is no longer any way back, that the only route now is forward.
• Surviving it demands we build a world that treats everybody – human and non-human – as worthy of life and possibility.
• I turn to look out to the horizon, its fading margin between sea and sky a space of grief, but also possibility.
• This is an edited extract from Deep Water: the world in the ocean by James Bradley (Hamish Hamilton).

James Bradley was the recipient of the Copyright Agency Non-Fiction Fellowship for 2020.

• Takeda ( TSE:4502/NYSE:TAK ) and Biological E. Limited (BE), a leading India-based Vaccines and Pharmaceutical Company, today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate access to QDENGA®▼ (Dengue Tetravalent Vaccine [Live, Attenuated]) (TAK-003) multi-dose vials (MDVs).
• These doses will ultimately be made available for procurement by governments in endemic countries by 2030 at the latest to support National Immunization Programs.
• MDVs offer economic and logistical advantages for National Immunization Programs by minimizing packaging and storage expenses, while also reducing medical and environmental waste.
• Together, we will help combat dengue on a global scale by significantly increasing manufacturing capacity for multi-dose vials of QDENGA to drive sustainable access to the vaccine in more endemic countries."

• With the 2024 Chinese Lunar New Year drawing near, a peak in international travel, as well as domestic travel across China is expected.
• International SOS , the world's leading health and security risk services company, has issued travel safety tips for the New Year period.
• Security threats such as fraud and petty theft tend to be more pronounced while travelling and in crowded locations.
• Enhance Mental Health Resilience: During the holiday and upon returning to work, employees might experience travel-related stress, anxiety or post-holiday blues.