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Bird Flu Has Infected a Third U.S. Farmworker

30 May 2024 at 15:45
The worker had respiratory symptoms, unlike the first two. But the risk to the public remains low, federal health officials said.

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A dairy farm in Colorado in 2019.

Countries Fail to Agree on Treaty to Prepare the World for the Next Pandemic

24 May 2024 at 13:57
Negotiators plan to ask for more time. Among the sticking points are equitable access to vaccines and financing to set up surveillance systems.

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Last year’s World Health Assembly in Geneva. Member countries have failed to reach their goal of finalizing a pandemic treaty before this year’s session begins on Monday.

Dr. Paul Parkman, Who Helped to Eliminate Rubella, Dies at 91

21 May 2024 at 22:13
He also identified the virus, which can cause infants to be born with severe physical and mental impairments as well as causing miscarriages and stillbirths.

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Dr. Paul D. Parkman, right, and Dr. Harry M. Meyer Jr. inspecting a culture of the rubella virus in 1967. Working with a team of researchers, they created a vaccine for the disease.

C.D.C. Warns of a Resurgence of Mpox

16 May 2024 at 14:53
A deadlier version of the infectious disease is ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo, while the type that caused a 2022 outbreak among gay and bisexual men is regaining strength.

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A health official investigating and treating a probable case of mpox at the Yalolia health center in Tshopo, Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2022.

Millions of Girls in Africa Will Miss HPV Shots After Merck Production Problem

18 April 2024 at 11:22
The company has told countries that it can supply only 18.8 million of the 29.6 million doses it was contracted to deliver this year.

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On the way to class in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The delayed vaccines means that girls in countries such as Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso and Mozambique who are now 14 will no longer be eligible for vaccination when these campaigns finally start.

Four Wild Ways to Save the Koala (That Just Might Work)

15 April 2024 at 00:01
To protect Australia’s iconic animals, scientists are experimenting with vaccine implants, probiotics, tree-planting drones and solar-powered tracking tags.

A veterinary nurse treats a koala infected with chlamydia at Currumbin Wildlife Hospital in Currumbin, Australia.
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