Vaccination

Brazil to vaccinate kids, stops short of demanding scripts

Vaccination of Brazilian children between the ages of 5 and 11 will begin in January, without the demand for prescriptions from doctors the government had previously signaled, officials from the health ministry announced ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

In Iraq, vaccine hesitancy gives way to jabs as COVID spikes

A soldier exposes his shoulder and awaits a jab to the amusement of fellow troops, a familiar scene in Iraq where a COVID spike is prompting more vaccinations despite widespread hesitancy.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Spain, India crash through coronavirus milestones

Spain passed the landmark figure of 500,000 coronavirus infections on Monday as India reopened some metro lines despite becoming the world's second most affected country.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

The experiment that proved airborne disease transmission

Seven months after the first human-to-human transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was confirmed in China, the method of transmission remains unsettled. Is the virus airborne in tiny infective particles? Or do infected people expel the ...

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