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The growing mpox outbreaks in Africa that triggered the World Health Organization's emergency declaration are largely the result of decades of neglect and the global community's inability to stop sporadic epidemics among ...
Aug 27, 2024
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Barely over a year after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that mpox was no longer a public health issue of international concern, it is back in the news. This time with a diversity of variants, new modes of transmission ...
Aug 26, 2024
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A new $1.2 billion program to massively boost vaccine production in Africa was launched on Thursday, aiming to give the continent more sovereignty to fight numerous diseases including a cholera resurgence.
Jun 20, 2024
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Immunization is considered one of the most cost-effective public health interventions, saving millions of lives each year, and benefiting the health of the wider community through herd immunity.
Jun 12, 2024
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You are walking through the bustling center of Bo, Sierra Leone's third largest city. Following the crowd, you turn off the main road onto a narrower thoroughfare and find yourself in an open-air market. Shelters constructed ...
Jun 5, 2024
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The last pandemic was bad, but COVID-19 is only one of many infectious diseases that emerged since the turn of this century.
May 8, 2024
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During epidemics of Ebola, COVID-19, Zika and other public health emergencies, effective communication of public health messages is crucial to control the spread of disease, maintain public trust, and encourage compliance ...
Apr 25, 2024
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Epidemiology researchers are harnessing tools developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, to untangle the origins of the 2020 Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic ...
Apr 19, 2024
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Diagnosing infectious conditions can be challenging. Diagnosis is especially challenging for uncommon and emerging infectious diseases for which there's limited clinical experience. Nevertheless, successfully identifying ...
Apr 3, 2024
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Africa's data science ecosystem has the potential to drive transformative scientific research and health care advancements.
Feb 19, 2024
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