MeSH tree: C01.925.782.580.250.400
There's a common thread linking our experience of pandemics over the past 700 years. From the black death in the 14th century to COVID in the 21st, public health authorities have put emergency measures such as isolation and ...
Oct 3, 2024
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Five more people in Rwanda have died of the deadly Ebola-like Marburg disease, bringing the number of fatalities to 11, the health ministry said late Tuesday.
Oct 2, 2024
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Africa says it needs an estimated 10 million doses of mpox vaccine to control this public health emergency.
Sep 9, 2024
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The Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of an mpox outbreak, on Thursday received its first vaccines—almost half of 200,000 doses donated by the European Union and due to arrive by the end of the week to fight its ...
Sep 5, 2024
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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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