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    Goats and Soda
    Health workers fumigate to wipe out mosquitoes in Recife, Brazil.
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    WHO: Birth Defect Linked To Zika Virus Is 'Public Health Emergency'

    Feb 01, 2016
    The concern is not the virus itself but the cluster of brain-damaged babies born to pregnant women who'd been infected with the mosquito-borne disease.
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    Zika Virus
    <em>Aedes aegypti</em> mosquitoes are displayed at an exhibition on Jan. 28 in Brazil. The mosquitoes can be carriers of the Zika virus. Several cases of the virus have spread to Puerto Rico.
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    Puerto Rico Health Official 'Very Concerned' About Zika's Spread

    Jan 30, 2016
    An epidemiologist says the island has been lucky so far, but needs to stop the virus at its source — where mosquitoes breed.
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    The Two-Way
    A unidentified family member (right) of a 10-year-old boy that contracted Ebola has her temperature measured by a health worker outside an Ebola clinic on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, on Nov. 20. Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone have now gone 42 d
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    West Africa Is Finally Declared Ebola-Free — For Now

    Jan 14, 2016
    For the first time since the most recent Ebola outbreak began, Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone have each reported zero cases of Ebola for 42 days in a row. But the risk of small flare-ups remains.
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    Goats and Soda
    Measles, the reorganization of the World Health Organization and the Zika virus could all make global health headlines in 2016.
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    Global Health Forecast For 2016: Which Diseases Will Rise ... Or Fall?

    Jan 04, 2016
    What will be the big stories of 2016? Four experts offer their best guesses. They worry about Zika virus and malaria. But not all their predictions are downers.
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    Goats and Soda
    Medical workers surround 34-day-old Noubia, the last known patient to contract Ebola in Guinea, as she was released from a Doctors Without Borders treatment center in Conakry on Nov. 28.
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    A Cause For Cautious Celebration: Guinea Is Ebola-Free

    Dec 29, 2015
    After two years and over 2,500 deaths, the country's epidemic has officially ended, the World Health Organization says. Health groups will be watching to ensure the virus doesn't re-emerge.
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    Goats and Soda
    A hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders in Haydan, Yemen, was destroyed by airstrikes on Oct. 26.
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    Yemen Has A Glimmer Of Hope Amid War, Malnutrition, Malaria

    Dec 16, 2015
    Tuesday's cease-fire offers a sliver of peace, but civilians are continuing to feel the effects of the protracted fighting.
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    So Does Processed Meat Increase Cancer Rates?

    Nov 03, 2015

    Next time you’re considering piling on the bacon at a local buffet, or stopping by a fast food hamburger joint – you might want to think twice.

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    Goats and Soda
    A masked man walks past trees shrouded with pollution haze in Beijing, China.
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    Don't Take A Deep Breath: Outdoor Pollution Kills 3.3 Million A Year

    Sep 16, 2015
    Even the combined deaths from HIV/AIDS and malaria isn't quite as devastating. The culprits are the usual suspects, like cars and industry, but also cookstoves and ... manure?
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    The Two-Way
    Adama Sankoh, 40 (center), who contracted Ebola after her son died from the disease late last month, stands with health officials the moment after she was discharge from Mateneh Ebola treatment center outskirt of Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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    Sierra Leone's Last Ebola Patient Released, But Nation Not Yet 'Ebola-Free'

    Aug 24, 2015
    The country celebrates but the World Health Organization says it must go six weeks without a new case before the nation can be declared virus-free.
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    Goats and Soda
    Since the first case on May 20, confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS, have swelled to at least 30 in South Korea.
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    Classes Canceled, 1,300 Quarantined In S. Korea's Scramble To Stop MERS

    Jun 03, 2015
    Additional confirmed cases of the Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS, have led to more than 200 school closures and a minor public panic in South Korea.
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    Goats and Soda
    The Ebola outbreak "overwhelmed" the World Health Organization and made it clear the agency must change, WHO's director-general, Dr. Margaret Chan, said Monday in Geneva.
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    WHO Calls For $100 Million Emergency Fund, Doctor 'SWAT Team'

    May 21, 2015
    The World Health Organization isn't ready for the next pandemic or international health crisis, so the agency's leader is calling for major reforms. But will the changes be enough?
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    Goats and Soda
    Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, has said of Ebola: "It overwhelmed the capacity of WHO, and it is a crisis that cannot be solved by a single agency or single country."
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    Critics Say Ebola Crisis Was WHO's Big Failure. Will Reform Follow?

    Feb 06, 2015
    The World Health Organization failed to respond quickly and effectively to the outbreak in West Africa. Now the agency is proposing a new structure. But change could prove difficult.
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    Goats and Soda
    Ebola was out of control in Liberia in August, when this picture was taken.
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    14 Takeaways From The 14-Part WHO Report On Ebola

    Jan 15, 2015
    Angry mobs that targeted health workers. A single funeral that infected 365 people. No isolation wards in Liberia. These are some of the striking points in WHO's new analysis.
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    Nevada Prepares For Potential Ebola Cases

    Jan 26, 2015
    Nevada public health officials say they're ramping up preparations for Ebola after a patient in Dallas, Texas was diagnosed with the disease this week....
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