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UN extends use of meningitis vaccine to African infants

The World Health Organisation has approved giving a groundbreaking meningitis vaccine manufactured in India, which does not have to be stored in fridges or iceboxes, to babies across Africa, experts said. WHO’s...

12 January, 2015

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Ebola vaccines move closer to ultimate test

The race to develop Ebola vaccines will soon enter a new phase that may bring answers to the most important question: Do they actually work? In as little as 4 weeks, tests could begin in West Africa in people at risk of...

12 January, 2015

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Ebola outbreak: Virus still ‘running ahead of us’, says WHO

The Ebola virus that has killed thousands in West Africa is still “running ahead” of efforts to contain it, the head of the World Health Organization has said. Director general Margaret Chan said the...

26 December, 2014

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Lapses in infection control associated with spread of severe respiratory virus MERS, according to study

Little is known about the often fatal virus known as Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), but researchers have identified gaps in infection control as a major culprit in all eleven published cases...

9 December, 2014

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Ebola virus detected in semen three months after symptoms end

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday that the semen of men recovering from Ebola can contain the deadly virus up to three months after the symptoms disappear. Four studies on the persistence of Ebola...

3 December, 2014

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Ebola death toll nears 7,000

The death toll from the worst Ebola outbreak on record has reached nearly 7,000 in West Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. The toll of 6,928 dead showed a leap of just over 1,200 since the WHO released...

3 December, 2014

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WHO statement on tetanus vaccine: ‘There is no HCG hormone in tetanus toxoid vaccines’

In response to the very public accusations out of Kenya concerning tainted tetanus vaccine and “population control”, the World Health Organization released the following statement: WHO is concerned that misinformation...

17 November, 2014

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Kenya: Avoid tetanus vaccine at your own risk, WHO warns

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is encouraging mothers to continue taking the tetanus vaccine which it says is safe, contrary to claims made by the Catholic Church. WHO Director of Reproductive Health and Research...

14 November, 2014

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Ebola: UN says experimental vaccine trials in West Africa could begin by January

The (WFP) said the Ebola crisis response “needs to scale up, get better and perform faster,” as the UN health agency reported that if judged safe, larger scale trials of an experimental vaccine could be taken to hard...

7 November, 2014

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Global agency needed for battling infectious diseases

Ebola underlines the urgent need for a new way of responding to global epidemics In our hyper-connected world, we can no longer dismiss certain threats as being “over there”. Local phenomena can have global...

29 October, 2014

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