UK warned as 'worrying' virus spreads across Europe with infections doubling
The World Health Organization and Unicef said that about 40 per cent of measles infections in Europe and Central Asia were in ...
COVID stole a parent from over 200,000 children. Indian Country lost the most
COVID-19 killed 1.2 million Americans. Many of those who died were parents, and the story of the children they left behind has gotten little attention.
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Genetic Modification of Mosquitos: A Potential Breakthrough in the Fight Against Malaria
If successful, the genetic modification developed by the Transmission Zero team could provide a long-term solution by ...
Measles cases in Europe and Central Asia doubled last year to the highest reported level since 1997
There were 127,350 reported cases of measles, including 38 deaths, in Europe and Central Asia last year, marking the highest ...
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We Need to Turn Our Outrage Way Up
We couldn’t be ignored any longer. We scared the leaders of federal agencies, challenged politicians on their doorsteps, took ...
Keir Starmer Wants to Abolish N.H.S. England: What to Know About His Plan
The British prime minister said he would scrap an agency that was created in 2013 to help run the health service. He said the ...
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5 years after it was declared a global pandemic, a look at COVID-19’s impact
Tuesday marks five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. In a quick succession of events, schools and businesses shut down, lockdowns were put in place, travel ...
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5 years ago today, the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic
NPR reflects on the cascading events of March 11, 2020, the day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
WHO starts process of slimming down in response to U.S. cuts
The World Health Organization has started a process of fixing new priorities and announced a one-year limit on staff contracts, an internal memo showed on Tuesday, as it aims to make the U.N. agency ...
Five years after the pandemic, the world is poorly prepared for another one
Between 500 and 1,000 people globally are now dying every week from COVID. This winter, healthcare in much of the developed ...
Five years ago, WHO's pandemic call shook world into action
Five years ago on Tuesday, the World Health Organization announced Covid-19 had become a pandemic -- a moment when the world ...