The southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou locked down its largest district Monday as it tries to tamp down a major COVID-19 outbreak, suspending public transit and requiring residents to present a negative test if they ...
Nov 21, 2022
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We are still very much in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, for many parts of the world, there has been some degree of management and control thanks to vaccines, pharmaceutical interventions, and ongoing social ...
Nov 2, 2022
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The death toll from an Ebola epidemic declared last month in Uganda has climbed to 44, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
Oct 19, 2022
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World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday that clinical trials could start within weeks on vaccines to combat the strain of Ebola behind a deadly outbreak in Uganda.
Oct 12, 2022
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The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Uganda has risen to nine, the health ministry said Friday, two weeks after the authorities announced an epidemic in the centre of the country.
Oct 3, 2022
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The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Uganda has risen to seven, the health ministry said Friday, after President Yoweri Museveni ruled out a lockdown to contain the highly contagious virus.
Sep 30, 2022
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Drug testing programs can reduce overdose deaths—but politics are getting in the way of the growing public health emergency, according to a new brief from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Sep 13, 2022
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The death toll from a measles outbreak in Zimbabwe has risen to almost 700 children, the country's health ministry has said.
Sep 5, 2022
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Health and social care workers were often let down by the government whose claims that it was 'guided by the science' when developing policy to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic were questionable, according to an editorial ...
Aug 31, 2022
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New MIT research forecasts the effect of various two-dose vaccine allocation strategies on the cumulative number of infections and deaths in the U.S.—quantifying the impact of prioritizing first versus second doses. The ...
Aug 15, 2022
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