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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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Ebola cure: WHO says 200,000 vaccine doses could be ready by 2015

As many as several hundred thousand doses of two leading experimental Ebola vaccines could be ready by mid-2015, the World Health Organization said Friday, according to Reuters. Human trials for the treatment candidates...

29 October, 2014

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New vaccine targeting adults, teens could eliminate TB by 2050

Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Stop TB Department at the World Health Organization found that a vaccine given to adolescents and adults in low- and middle-income countries...

7 October, 2014

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Ebola kills 3,000 while scientists scramble for vaccine

Over 3,000 people have died from the Ebola virus in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization. With no signs of the deadly virus slowing down, scientists and pharmaceutical companies are scrambling to find...

3 October, 2014

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Another View: As ‘endemic’ Ebola looms, developing effective treatment must become public, private priority

The CDC projects up to 1.4 million cases by February, but not a single drug or vaccine is ready. Everything about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa has been worst-case – the scope, the toll, the response. The Centers...

29 September, 2014

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Looking towards a serum from Ebola survivors to aid in outbreak treatment efforts

Eight months since the Ebola virus showed its face in a village in Guinea in December, and with more than 3,000 total Ebola-related deaths, the international community is scaling up response efforts, which until now...

29 September, 2014

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FAO joins new global efforts targeting Ebola and other infectious diseases

FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today stressed the need for controls on animal health to help curb the spread of Ebola and other infectious diseases dangerous to humans, during discussions hosted by U.S...

29 September, 2014

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