Ambulance boat serves lagoon residents in Ivory Coast
A hundred kilometers east of Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast, the lagoon that winds…
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Vaccine misinformation spawns ‘pure blood’ movement
Vaccine skeptics blocking transfusions for life-saving surgeries, Facebook groups inciting violence…
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‘No beds, not enough doctors’: UK healthcare crisis laid bare
Five-year-old Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died from pneumonia after being sent home, despite a doctor…
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Monkeypox to be renamed mpox: WHO
Monkeypox is to be renamed mpox, the World Health Organization announced Monday, in a bid to avoid stigmatisation…
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Grief and outrage in Gambia over cough syrup deaths
When Wuri Bailo Keita’s two-year-old daughter Fatoumatta developed a fever, he took her to hospital…
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Anthony Fauci, face of US Covid fight, to step down in December
Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert who became the face of America’s fight against…
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China’s ex-Covid patients live under ‘dark shadow’ of stigma
When Zuo tested positive for Covid-19 while working as a cleaner in one of Shanghai’s largest…
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President Biden tests negative after second bout of Covid-19
US President Joe Biden on Saturday tested negative for Covid-19, days after coming down with a second…
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WHO emergency committee meets on monkeypox
A World Health Organization committee of experts will meet on Thursday to discuss the monkeypox outbreak…
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Pfizer sets sights on elimination of blinding disease trachoma by 2030
Pfizer on Thursday said it would extend until 2030 a drug donation programme aimed at eliminating trachoma,…
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