Guinea eliminates sleeping sickness

几内亚消除了睡眠疾病

Health Check

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2025-02-06

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As Guinea becomes the latest country to eliminate sleeping sickness, how close are we to defeating the disease completely? Also on the program, what does a massive shakeup at the US Agency for International Development mean for global health? And a new discovery is shedding a bit more light on a neural fossil in our ears. Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Margaret Sessa-Hawkins Assistant Producer: Katie Tomsett
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  • Hello and welcome to Health Check from the BBC.

  • I'm Claudia Hammond and I'll be here for the next half an hour to dissect the latest medical news

  • and to work out what it means for all of us.

  • And to help me, I have Matt Fox, who's professor of global health and epidemiology at Boston university in the U.S.

  • welcome back.

  • Good to be here.

  • And you've got news about lung cancer in people who've never smoked.

  • That's right.

  • Changes in the distribution of people who have never smoked who are getting lung cancer.

  • And let me ask you something that might sound a bit odd.

  • Matt, can you wiggle your ears?

  • I cannot.

  • I wish I could, but I cannot.

  • No.

  • I've been trying

  • because we're going to do a bit of an experiment later to see