Measles spreads in Americas

美洲麻疹蔓延

Health Check

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2025-03-13

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The Americas are in danger of losing their measles elimination status as the disease spreads due to under vaccination. Also on the show, a study finds that continuous glucose monitors may be overestimating blood sugar levels in healthy adults. And it’s been ten years since Brazil experienced and epidemic of microcephaly due to the Zika virus. What have we learned in that time? Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Margaret Sessa-Hawkins
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  • Hello and welcome to Health check from the BBC.

  • I'm Claudia Hammond.

  • Now, it is 10 years since the epidemic of Zika in Latin America,

  • which led to as many as 4,000 babies born in Brazil alone with heads

  • and brains that were underdeveloped.

  • We'll be looking back on the epidemic

  • and asking why it was mainly confined to very specific regions.

  • And if you're someone who sits hunched over a desk for too long, how about a little desk a size.

  • You know,

  • you're always going to look a little bit silly

  • if everyone else is sitting down eating their packet of crisps and their sandwich.

  • But even, even if you got up and did like 10 squats or,

  • you know, 20 lunges, that's something, isn't it?

  • It's going to raise your heart rate, build your muscles a little bit,

  • and you're going to feel good at the end of it.

  • The superstar fitness coach Joe Wicks gives me an exercise lesson at my desk.

  • And my guest today is Eyan Panja, who's a family doctor and author of the book the Health Fix.

  • What have you got for us today, Ian?

  • Well, I've got a study that looks at continuous glucose monitoring,

  • which is ever more popular with healthy people, but also, of course, used for diabetes.