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Cholera: shortages of vaccines prompts WHO to urge using only one dose instead instead of twoe

Wed, 2022-10-19 12:41 — mike kraft
WHO advises using 1 dose of cholera vaccine due to shortage GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization and its partners are recommending that countries temporarily switch to using a single dose of the cholera vaccine instead of two due to a supply shortage as outbreaks of the water-borne disease surge globally. AP NEWS

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Lack of research into whether monkeypox infections have long-term consequences

Wed, 2022-10-19 10:15 — mike kraft
Could monkeypox infections have long-term consequences? Clinicians are struggling for answers when asked about the risk of lingering effects of monkeypox infection. Helen Branswell STAT
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U.S. sends experimental antibody, antiviral drug to Uganda to counter Ebola outbreak

Tue, 2022-10-18 18:38 — mike kraft
U.S. sends experimental antibody, antiviral drug to Uganda for Ebola outbreak The United States sent Gilead Sciences' remdesivir and Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc's experimental Ebola antibody drug MBP134 to Uganda last week to help safeguard healthcare workers responding to an outbreak that has infected 60 people and killed 44, U.S.
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Public Trust Crucial to Reponses to Health Crisis--study

Tue, 2022-10-18 09:29 — mike kraft
Public Trust Can Make or Break Government Response to Public Health Crisis Global Health NOW
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Weather and food: Floods will impact food security — for better and worse: study by Sharon Udasin - 10/17/22 3:00 PM ET

Mon, 2022-10-17 15:31 — mike kraft
Floods will impact food security — for better and worse: study Flooding could impact food security for more than 5.6 million people across multiple African nations, a new study has found. While these impacts are usually negative, the researchers also identifie… rzilbermints The Hill

Flooding could impact food security for more than 5.6 million people across multiple African nations, a new study has found.

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Ebola: Uganda locks down two districts, Indian company to produce an experimental vaccine for Uganda's outbreak

Mon, 2022-10-17 14:24 — mike kraft
Uganda locks down 2 districts in bid to stem spread of Ebola KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities on Saturday imposed a travel lockdown on two Ebola-hit districts as part of efforts to stop the spread of the contagious disease. The measures announced by President Yoweri Museveni mean residents of the central Ugandan districts of Mubende and Kassanda can't travel into or out of those areas by private or public means. AP NEWS
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Moderna will provide variant-adapted COVID shots for world's poorest

Mon, 2022-10-17 08:31 — mike kraft
Moderna signs deal on variant-adapted COVID shots for world's poorest Moderna Inc (MRNA.O) has agreed to provide its new variant-adapted COVID-19 vaccine to the global scheme aiming to deliver shots to the world's poorest people. Reuters Reuters

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Analysis: Africa's progress and challenges in confronting pandemics--report

Fri, 2022-10-14 19:18 — mike kraft
Africa: Ready to Respond | Think Global Health The changing story of a vulnerable continent better prepared to respond to pandemics Council on Foreign Relations

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Key Cholara vaccine production to be discontinued, causing official dismay

Fri, 2022-10-14 17:43 — mike kraft
Dismay as key cholera vaccine is discontinued Exclusive: halt to production of Shanchol vaccine alarms WHO amid ‘unprecedented’ global outbreaks the Guardian
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Monkeypox treatment trial begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Fri, 2022-10-14 10:55 — mike kraft
Monkeypox treatment trial begins in the Democratic Republic of the NIH partnering with INRB to evaluate tecovirimat (TPOXX). National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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The trial will evaluate the drug’s safety and its ability to mitigate monkeypox symptoms and prevent serious outcomes, including death.

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