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The UK Health Security Agency has issued an update on early contingency planning for mpox.
It comes after the World Health Organisation discovered a surge in cases of the contagious viral disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where at least 450 people died in the initial outbreak.
Evening Standard health reporter Daniel Keane has the latest details.
Hear the AI-powered voice from a new brain-computer interface that’s allowed Casey Harrell, a motor neurone disease patient in the US, to speak again.
Neuroprosthetics experts at UC Davis in California implanted sensors into Harrell’s brain after he developed the neurodegenerative disorder ALS, which gradually paralysed him over five years and he lost the ability to speak.
Plus, Bloomberg reports Apple has a team working on an apparent next-gen tabletop “smart home command centre” that combines what’s described as “an iPad-like display with a robotic limb”.
Also in this episode: stranded ISS Nasa astronauts’ wait continues, Amazon green light to test fly delivery drones, Stonehenge rock ‘is Scottish, not Welsh’ and do Aussies live longer than Brits?
