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Opinion: The WHO’s new pandemic treaty is good for the world — and the U.S.

20.01.2023

In December, delegates from more than 180 countries met in Switzerland to discuss the International Treaty for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response, which had initially been proposed in December 2021. …

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Health

HIV vaccine being developed by Johnson & Johnson fails clinical trial

18.01.2023

Yet another experimental HIV vaccine has failed. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reported Wednesday that a Phase 3 clinical trial of a vaccine was stopped because the …

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Coronavirus / Health

Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row

12.01.2023

The percentage of U.S. kindergartners who’ve received standard childhood vaccines took a small but notable dip into the 2021-2022 school year, health officials said Thursday, amid disruptions related to Covid-19 …

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Coronavirus / Health

XB what? BQ huh? Do you need to keep up with Omicron’s ever-expanding offspring?

12.01.2023

It’s like clockwork now. Every few months, we’re warned that the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spawned yet another subvariant, this one even more transmissible than the ones …

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Health

With attention to mpox fading, health officials fear infections will go undetected and unreported

10.01.2023

In the transmission heyday of the international mpox outbreak early last summer, it appeared that containment might not be possible. In recent months, though, the rate of growth of new …

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Health

South Dakota plans major ramp-up of hepatitis C treatment in prison

10.01.2023

WASHINGTON — The head of South Dakota prisons is pledging to dramatically overhaul how the system treats hepatitis C in the coming year. South Dakota’s new hepatitis C policy for …

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Health

Officials in Nebraska, South Dakota, Oklahoma begin to probe prisons’ hepatitis C treatment efforts

06.01.2023

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress, state legislators, regulators, and legal advocates are calling on prisons to explain their poor hepatitis C treatment rates, after a STAT investigation revealing that more …

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Coronavirus / Health

3 challenges to watch in global health in 2023

04.01.2023

For the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, people working in the infectious diseases and global health spheres were largely focused on the new disease. In 2022, however, gears …

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Coronavirus / Health

Three years on, the pandemic — and our response — have been jolting. Here’s what even the experts didn’t see coming

27.12.2022

People who study infectious diseases and who work in public health have long known a bad pandemic would one day come. They knew such an event would overwhelm hospitals, strain …

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