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Polio: leading virologist offers a beginner's guide to the different viruses and vaccines

On 17 March 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that health officials in Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had detected cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus. The WHO said the Burundian government had declared the detection of the virus a national public health emergency after three cases were confirmed.…

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Measles has been identified in NSW, Qld and SA. 5 things to know about the virus

New South Wales health authorities have issued a measles alert after a baby who recently returned from overseas, and subsequently visited several sites in Western Sydney, tested positive to the virus.

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The ONS has published its final COVID infection survey – here's why it's been such a valuable resource

March 24 marked the publication of the final bulletin of the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) Coronavirus Infection Survey after nearly three years of tracking COVID infections in the UK. The first bulletin was published on May 14 2020 and we’ve seen new releases almost every week since.

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Healthy kids, adolescents may not need COVID shots, WHO Says

Healthy children and adolescents may no longer need COVID shots, the World Health Organization said, updating its guidance on vaccines as the world adjusts to living permanently with the virus.

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WHO Revises COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendations for Omicron-Era

The World Health Organization has tailored its COVID-19 vaccination recommendations for a new phase of the pandemic, suggesting that healthy children and adolescents may not necessarily need a shot but older, high-risk groups should get a booster between 6 to 12 months after their last vaccine. The UN agency said…

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WHO revises COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for Omicron-era

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COVID testing led to new techniques of disease diagnosis: progress mustn’t stop now

In March 2020, weeks before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, its director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivered a speech in which he emphasised the importance of testing:

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Seven deaths in E.Guinea from Marburg virus, 20 others likely linked: WHO

Malabo (Equatorial Guinea) (AFP) - Seven people have been killed in an outbreak of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea, with a further 20 deaths "probably" due to the hemorrhagic fever, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

AFP

'Appalling': Southern Africa counts toll of Cyclone Freddy

The World Health Organization says the death toll from Tropical Cyclone Freddy, which ravaged Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique over the past two months, now stands at more than 600 people

The Independent UK

Elon Musk, WHO chief spar on Twitter over U.N. agency's role

Twitter CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday in a tweet that countries should not "cede authority" to the World Health Organization, and the U.N. health agency's chief quickly rejected his comments.

Reuters

The COVID-19 pandemic took a toll on Albertans. Here's how they're faring now

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.

The Conversation

Report: 43,000 Estimated Dead in Somalia Drought Last Year

A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year and half of them likely were children. It is the first official death toll announced in the drought withering large parts of the Horn of Africa. At least 18,000 people are…

Asharq Al-Awsat

China should share raccoon dog data in probe of COVID-19 origins, WHO says

The World Health Organization called on China to fully share genetic data that may help discern the origins of COVID-19 after it appeared briefly on an international database.

Tribune News Service

Maternal deaths in the U.S. spiked in 2021, CDC reports

After years of high rates, the country hit a new high during the pandemic, far exceeding rates in other developed nations. Black women are at especially high risk.

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WHO's Tedros: Finding COVID-19's Origins is a Moral Imperative

Discovering the origins of COVID-19 is a moral imperative and all hypotheses must be explored, the head of the World Health Organization said, in his strongest comments yet that the UN body remains committed to finding how the virus arose. A US agency was reported by the Wall Street Journal…

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On 3/11/20, WHO declared a pandemic. These quotes and photos recall that historic time

Three years ago, the novel coronavirus swept the world. Here are 24 quotes and 13 photos that sum up the reaction in the weeks before the World Health Organization's declaration of a global pandemic.

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Pandemic 3 years later: Has the COVID-19 virus won?

It’s been three years since the World Health Organization's first called COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020

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