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Nearly 60 percent of adults in Saudi Arabia engage in at least 150 minutes of physical activity per week, while 20.3 percent of children and adolescents engage in 60 minutes or more of daily physical activity, according to the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT).
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The Shomonda virus has been detected in a human for the first time, French health officials said. Authorities see no risk to the public, adding that the victim, who died in early October, was severely immunocompromised.
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France has reported its first case of the Shamonda virus in a human, involving an immunocompromised patient who died. The virus is typically transmitted to animals by midges and was previously not known to infect humans.
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African health officials will hold a crisis meeting as the Ebola outbreak spreads from Congo to neighboring countries and beyond. The "extraordinary virtual meeting" will convene on October 28.
