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    A woman in Times Square in New York wears a face mask against the coronavirus on Tuesday.
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    Coronavirus: All 50 States Report Cases; South America Has Nearly 1,000 Cases

    Mar 17, 2020
    West Virginia was the final state without any reports of the coronavirus disease, but on Tuesday evening Gov. Jim Justice announced officials have confirmed the state's first case.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Televangelist Jim Bakker, shown here in 2018, faces a legal challenge from the state of Missouri for selling a false remedy against the coronavirus. The COVID-19 disease currently has no cure.
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    Missouri Sues Televangelist Jim Bakker For Selling Fake Coronavirus Cure

    Mar 11, 2020
    The Missouri attorney general asked a judge to block the sale of Bakker's "Silver Solution." The FDA and FTC warned seven companies to stop hawking so-called treatments for the coronavirus.
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    Goats and Soda
    The World Health Organization called the COVID-19 viral disease a pandemic Wednesday. Here, workers in Spain place a medical mask on a figure that was to be part of the Fallas festival in Valencia. The festival has been canceled over the coronavirus outb
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    Coronavirus: COVID-19 Is Now Officially A Pandemic, WHO Says

    Mar 11, 2020
    It's the first time the WHO has called an outbreak a pandemic since the H1N1 "swine flu" in 2009.
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    Goats and Soda
    "As long as you have these discrete outbreaks ... there is the opportunity to control them," says Dr. Bruce Aylward, team leader of the joint mission between the World Health Organization and China on COVID-19.
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    WHO Official Says Coronavirus Containment Remains Possible

    Mar 08, 2020
    China's experience shows how the virus can be stopped. But the World Health Organization's Dr. Bruce Aylward says other countries may be drawing the wrong lessons about how China achieved it.
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    Shots - Health News
    A commuter wearing a medical mask waits for a train Thursday at Grand Central station in New York City. Several dozen cases have been confirmed in the state, and the East Coast as a whole saw its first two confirmed deaths related to COVID-19, in Florida
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    Coronavirus: Florida Reports 1st Deaths On East Coast; Cases In D.C. Area, New York

    Mar 07, 2020
    State authorities say two COVID-19 patients have died, bringing the known death toll in the U.S. to 19. Around the world, schools, companies and even the Vatican are calling off major events.
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    Goats and Soda
    A face mask adorns a statue of St. Francis of Assisi in the town of San Fiorano, one of the places in Italy on lockdown due to the novel coronavirus outbreak. The picture was taken by schoolteacher Marzio Toniolo.
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    Coronavirus Updates: CDC Announces '4 New Presumptive Cases' In The U.S.

    Feb 28, 2020
    The new cases, which have yet to be confirmed, were reported in California, Oregon and Washington. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization says the risk of the disease spreading is now "very high."
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    Goats and Soda
    Police officers wear face masks Wednesday in front of a hotel on Tenerife, the largest of Spain's Canary Islands. Spanish officials say a hotel on the island has been placed under quarantine after an Italian doctor staying there tested positive for the n
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    Coronavirus: More New Cases Are Now Reported Outside China Than Inside

    Feb 26, 2020
    South Korea, Italy and Iran have each confirmed at least 10 deaths from the coronavirus disease COVID-19, a mark that surpasses the death toll reported in many Chinese provinces.
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    Goats and Soda
    A medical worker takes a look outside a preliminary testing facility at the National Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea, where people suspected of having contracted the novel strain of coronavirus are being tested.
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    Coronavirus Cases Triple In South Korea; WHO Keeps Eye On Africa, Iran

    Feb 22, 2020
    The tally of new cases is declining in China, the heart of the outbreak. But rising numbers beyond its borders have officials worried, including for regions that have scarcely seen the virus so far.
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    Shots - Health News
    Checking for signs of COVID-19, a medical worker in a protective suit checks the temperatures of people who were on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship as they fly on a chartered evacuation plane from Japan to Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
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    Coronavirus Update: 346 Americans Emerge From Quarantine At California Military Bases

    Feb 18, 2020
    "It is important to know that these people being released from quarantine pose no health risk to the surrounding community," a CDC press officer said in a statement to NPR.
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    Goats and Soda
    Workers disinfect closed shop lots following the coronavirus outbreak in Hubei, China, on Monday. Officials reported the highest single-day death toll since the epidemic began.
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    China Reports Nearly 100 Deaths In A Single Day From Coronavirus

    Feb 10, 2020
    The new figures come as the head of the World Health Organization warns that a few cases of 2019-nCoV that have been spread by people who never traveled to China could be "the tip of the iceberg."
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    Goats and Soda
    In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, medical workers in protective suits help transfer the first group of patients into the newly completed Huoshenshan temporary field hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province.
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    In Quarantined Wuhan, Hospital Beds For Coronavirus Patients Are Scarce

    Feb 05, 2020
    Admission to a hospital requires a diagnosis of coronavirus. But screening kits are in short supply and hospitals are short of beds.
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    Shots - Health News
    There are now nearly 10,000 cases of coronavirus — far more than the reported number of SARS cases worldwide during a 2003 outbreak.
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    U.S. Warns Americans 'Do Not Travel To China' As Coronavirus Infections Surpass SARS

    Jan 31, 2020
    There are now nearly 12,000 cases of coronavirus — far more than the reported number of SARS cases worldwide during a 2003 outbreak.
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    Goats and Soda
    A worker in a protective suit uses a large fogger to disinfect outdoor areas in a village in Qingdao, Shandong province, as the deadly new coronavirus continues to spread in China.
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    Coronavirus Has Now Spread To All Regions Of Mainland China

    Jan 30, 2020
    A coronavirus expert tells NPR the outbreak is only getting started and the global spread will get worse — including in the U.S.
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    Goats and Soda
    Staff in biohazard suits hold a metal stretcher on Tuesday by the inpatient department of Wuhan Medical Treatment Center, where some people infected with a novel coronavirus are being treated in China.
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    1st Case Of New Coronavirus Detected In U.S.

    Jan 21, 2020
    The individual had returned to his home in Washington state after a visit to Wuhan, China, where the virus was discovered in December.
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    Africa
    A World Health Organization medic prepares a vaccination dose for a front-line aid worker earlier this year in the small town of Mangina, Democratic Republic of Congo. Four Ebola response workers were killed and six others injured in two attacks overnigh
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    'It Was Unmistakably A Directed Attack': 4 Ebola Workers Killed In Congo

    Nov 28, 2019
    The two overnight assaults on Ebola response teams also injured at least six people, according to the World Health Organization. The attacks come at a pivotal time for the fight against the disease.
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    Global Health
    A girl receives the Ebola vaccine in Beni, Congo DRC.
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    Doctors Without Borders Calls For More Transparency In Distribution Of Ebola Vaccine

    Sep 23, 2019
    The international humanitarian group says the World Health Organization is restricting access to the vaccine in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the current outbreak has killed more than 2,100.
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    Middle East
    The Taliban say the Red Cross may resume its work in Afghanistan, more than five months after threatening the group. In this photo from March, an orthopedic technician walks past artificial limbs in a workshop at the International Committee of the Red Cr
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    Taliban Lift Ban On Red Cross, Pledge To Protect Aid Workers In Afghanistan

    Sep 16, 2019
    "We welcome the acknowledgment of our humanitarian principles and renewal of security guarantees," says the Red Cross leader in Afghanistan.
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    Global Health
    The World Health Organization says more than 1,650 people have died from the current outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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    WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak In Congo An International Health Emergency

    Jul 17, 2019
    The current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 1,650 people, according to the World Health Organization. About 12 new cases are reported daily.
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    Health
    The WHO says the current Ebola outbreak is an emergency in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the region — but not on the international level. Here, people arriving from the DRC on Friday wash their hands with chlorinated water to prevent the spr
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    WHO Says Ebola Outbreak Is Not An International Public Health Emergency

    Jun 14, 2019
    The agency says that while the outbreak in central Africa is taking a heavy toll, there is still a low threat that it will spread beyond its current region.
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    Africa

    WHO Weighs Declaring Global Health Emergency As Ebola Spreads In Africa

    Jun 13, 2019

    The latest outbreak has killed nearly 1,400 people in Democratic Republic of the Congo, but new cases in neighboring Uganda have raised further concern at the World Health Organization.

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    Health
    Uganda has reported its first death from Ebola. Here, a health worker takes a woman's temperature at a border crossing between Uganda and Democratic Republic of the Congo, part of an effort to screen for Ebola and prevent its spread.
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    5-Year-Old Dies In Uganda As Ebola Spreads From Democratic Republic Of The Congo

    Jun 12, 2019
    Uganda's Ministry of Health says the dead boy's brother, 3, and grandmother, 50, also tested positive for Ebola. The 5-year-old and his mother had been in Democratic Republic of the Congo days ago.
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    Goats and Soda
    The black mamba is a large venomous snake found in Africa. The World Health Organization estimates that up to 138,000 people die from a snakebite each year.
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    Snakebites And Kissing Bugs Among Surprise Items On World Health Agenda

    May 28, 2019
    Unpredictable moments involved the cost of drugs, the fight against snakebites and kissing bugs ... and reproductive rights.
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    Goats and Soda
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    Which Countries Are Best At Preventing Low Birth Weight? Which Need To Do More?

    May 15, 2019
    For the first time, the World Health Organization has estimated how well the world is doing to prevent low-weight births. The progress is too slow, researchers say.
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    Goats and Soda
    Immunizations are one of the most cost-effective health interventions. Yet some vaccines are too expensive to be distributed in low- and middle-income countries.
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    Why Astronomical Drug Prices Are Bad For Health — And Profits

    Apr 12, 2019
    Fatima Suleman, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences, hopes that WHO's Fair Pricing Forum can help lower drug costs — and benefit drug manufacturers.
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    Goats and Soda
    Sodul Amin, 30, is one of tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees who've gotten chickenpox since December. The highly contagious disease spreads easily in the overcrowded refugee camps.
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    Chickenpox, The Latest Burden On The Rohingya Refugees

    Apr 11, 2019
    At the largest refugee camp in the world, Rohingya refugees and aid agencies face numerous challenges. Now they're also dealing with an outbreak of chickenpox.

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