Public health officials are working to identify and offer antibiotics to about 20 University of Oregon students who attended a…
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Obama reveals $100 million HIV research initiative
President Barack Obama announced a new initiative at the National Institutes of Health in pursuit of a cure for HIV,…
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WHO experts to visit Saudi hospital where coronavirus spread
World Health Organization (WHO) experts and local officials will visit a Saudi hospital where the SARS-like coronavirus has spread, killing…
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World experts to help China with bird flu investigation
An international team of flu experts will go to China within a week to help with investigations into the deadly…
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California asks to use non-approved meningitis vaccine for college outbreak
Public health officials in California said on Thursday they had sought permission from the federal government to use a vaccine…
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The World Health Organization declared Tuesday that it’s ethical to use unproven Ebola drugs and vaccines in the outbreak in…
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WHO official urges airlines to lift flight restrictions amid Ebola outbreak
KAMPALA, Uganda – The World Health Organization’s assistant director-general for emergency operations is urging airlines to lift most of their…
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How to fight viral epidemics in the future
Emerging viral diseases are at the center of health news right now. The most significant of them, in terms of…
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German hospital discharges Ebola patient
A German hospital says a Ugandan doctor it treated after he contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone has been…
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25 years ago, a different Ebola outbreak in US
It had all the makings of a public-health horror story: an outbreak of a wildly deadly virus on the doorstep…
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