Herald section
The latest health reporting from The Belfast Herald.
The World Health Organization reports that reported cases of dengue globally to a record 5.2 million in 2019, with climate change and the growing spread of virus-carrying mosquitoes being the main causes.
Approximately 50 health system warehouse workers belonging to the Nipsa union begin a five-day strike over pay and safe staffing levels.
The China Meteorological Administration issued a low-temperature warning on 16 December 2023, forecasting a cold wave affecting most of the country.
The United Nations Climate Change conference in Dubai opens with a multilateral agreement to establish a loss and damage fund, initially hosted by the World Bank, to support least developed countries most at risk from climate change impacts.
Six trees at the Dark Hedges in County Antrim are to be removed following a report that found all six in poor health, with remedial work planned for four others and one further tree to be assessed on site.
Bangladesh has recorded nearly 1,000 dengue-related deaths in a severe outbreak, the worst on record, driven by wet monsoons and a more virulent strain of the virus.
Health and social care workers from Unite, Unison and Nipsa began a 48-hour strike on 21 September 2023, involving nurses, ambulance staff and hospital support workers. The action followed a lack of pay offer for 2023-24 and a below-inflation increase in 2022-23.
The New South Wales government has banned logging in an 8,400-hectare forest area identified as home to 106 koala hubs, part of a plan to establish a 315,000-hectare Great Koala National Park.