Nepal Eradicates Rubella
Rubella, or German measles, is a highly contagious viral infection. It is particularly serious for pregnant women as infection can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, or a range of lifelong and debilitating birth defects.
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It’s Not Just India. New Virus Waves Hit Developing Nations
Laos, Nepal and Thailand risk facing India-like Covid crisis
COVID-19: AstraZeneca vaccine benefits still ‘largely positive’
The benefits of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are still “largely positive” and outweigh risk of rare but serious blood clots, said an official with the World Health Organization (WHO), on Tuesday during a press briefing from Geneva.
Global leaders unite in urgent call for international pandemic treaty
New treaty would signal high-level political action needed to protect the world from future health crises
AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine can be 90% effective, results show
AstraZeneca will have 200 million doses by the end of 2020, with 700 million doses ready globally by the end of the first quarter of 2021, operations executive Pam Cheng said on Monday.
WHO rolls out plan to rid world of cervical cancer, saving millions of lives
The World Health Organization (WHO) st out a strategy on Tuesday for eliminating cervical cancer, which