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The world nearly beat polio. But fake records, imperfect vaccine, missteps aided its comebackThe global polio eradication program faces setbacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mismanagement, falsified records, and unqualified staff pl...- US health agencies cancel external meetings, travel after Trump admin directivesUS health agencies, including the CDC, have canceled meetings, paused publications, and instituted a travel freeze following directives fro...
- WHO 'regrets' Donald Trump decision to pull US from organizationUS President Trump has directed the country's withdrawal from the WHO, citing financial imbalance and mishandling of Covid-19. The WHO expr...
- Biden's pandemic fight: Inside the setbacks of the first yearVaccines had been the core of President Joe Biden's pandemic strategy from the moment he took office. But as Walensky was briefed about a c...
- Omicron numbers doubling in 1.5-3 days in some areas: WHOOmicron is spreading rapidly in countries with high levels of population immunity, but it is unclear if this is due to the virus' ability t...
- Omicron rewrites the COVID plan for 2022Some scientists are not entirely ready to abandon hope that some parts of the world will emerge from the pandemic next year.
- Here’s why developing countries can make COVID-19 mRNA vaccinesDepending on wealthy nations to donate billions of doses is not working, public health experts say. The solution, many now believe, is for ...
- Biden aims to manage expectations with pandemicAnd on the latter task, projecting too much optimism can be as risky as offering too little, requiring what one public health expert calls ...
- Confirmed number of coronavirus cases in the world reach 20 million; doubling in 45 daysHealth officials believe the actual number is much higher, given testing limitations and the fact that as many as 40% of all those who are ...
- As Donald Trump pulls back from virus, Congress races to fill voidIn the House and Senate, lawmakers are pushing sweeping proposals for a national virus testing strategy. One seasoned Republican wants a wa...
- Coronavirus worse for US than Pearl Harbor, 9/11: Donald TrumpTrump said fallout from the pandemic has hit the United States harder than the December 7, 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor or the Sep...
- How it spreads, infects: Coronavirus impact comes into focusThe medical impact of the novel coronavirus is coming into sharper focus as it continues its spread.
- Coronavirus’s true lethal power still eludes disease expertsAbout 80% of people who get coronavirus have only mild symptoms, according to the WHO. Some experience none at all, and different testing r...
- WHO launches 'REPLACE' to eliminate trans fat in foods by 2023Industrially-produced trans fats are contained in hardened vegetable fats such as margarine and ghee, and are often present in snack, baked...
- Olympics should move due to Zika concerns, say 150 expertsNearly 1,300 babies have been born in Brazil with the irreversible defect since the mosquito-borne Zika began circulating there last year.
- Barack Obama calls Brazilian counterpart over spread of Zika virusObama and Rousseff agreed to continue to prioritise building national, regional, and global capacity to combat infectious disease threats m...
- WEF 2015: After Ebola, flu and drug resistance top pandemic threatsThere is little doubt that Ebola would not have taken hold on the scale it did in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea if the health systems in...
- Unless contained, Ebola could become endemic in AfricaBiologists have been sequencing the genome of the virus, and have collected nearly a hundred viruses from patients in the first month itsel...
- US will not turn back flights over Ebola: White House"No, not at this point," the White House Press Secretary, Josh Earnest, told reporters when asked if the flights coming to the US would be ...
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