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Lessons From Liberia Prompt a Renewed Call for Global Health Security
Although Ebola has finally been contained in Liberia, there is much to learn from this latest outbreak. Health officials are taking heed of the valuable lessons gained from the successes, and more importantly, the failures, of this most recent epidemic.
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How Social Media Can Be Used to Track Disease Outbreaks
A full nine days before Ebola was even recognized by the World Health Organizations as an epidemic there was something else. HealthMap, a software that mines government websites, social networks and local news reports, identified a “mystery hemorrhagic fever” that was going around.
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Public health: Behind a vaccine
In August 2014, officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) called global-health specialist Adrian Hill, who is the director of a non-profit vaccine-research centre. They had an urgent question: how soon could the centre launch a clinical trial for an Ebola vaccine? ... Within a month of the phone call, the institute had launched an Ebola-research initiative.
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How Has Rwanda Saved the Lives of 590,000 Children?
In 2000, one of the UN's Millennium Development Goals committed the world to reduce child mortality rates by September 2015. At the time, out of every 1,000 live births, an average of 90 children died before the age of five.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Scientists Race to Beat Mosquito Resistance in Fight Against Malaria
Mosquitoes are rapidly developing resistance to insecticides used in bed nets that millions of people rely on to protect them from malaria, experts say.
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Study: Ebola Outbreak Likely Driving Malaria Deaths
The collapse of health services in three west African countries devastated by Ebola may have caused some 11,000 additional deaths from malaria, a preventable and curable disease, researchers said Friday.
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World’s First Malaria Vaccine Moves Closer to Use in Africa
The world's first malaria vaccine, made by GlaxoSmithKline, could be approved by international regulators for use in Africa from October after final trial data showed it offered partial protection for up to four years.
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Brazilians Spraying and Praying for Dengue Vaccine Breakthrough
A cup of cloves, a half-liter of alcohol and a dollop of body oil: You won't find this homemade mosquito repellent in Brazilian drugstores, but the recipe went viral after a worried sanitarian posted a cell phone video on Facebook last week.
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- Latin America
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