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Enhancing Flu In the Lab: Are Accidents Inevitable?

CDC: Traveling for Business Can Be An Expensive Health Risk

A World Cup Visitor: Polio from Africa in Brazil

"Individual Actions Are Doomed to Failure": Coalition Asks for Global Action on Antibiotics

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U.S. Travelers Return Home With Tropical Disease. Will It Spread in the States?

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Very Serious Superbugs in Imported Seafood

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What Are the Odds That an Artificially Enhanced Flu Strain Could Escape a Lab?

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World Health Organization Drafting Global Plan on Drug Resistance. Is That Enough?

37 children have fallen ill with polio this year. For years polio had been eliminated from the country and west africa however it has come back. The first cases were in Guinée Forestière which borders Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire, they have moved across the country as yet there are no cases in Conakry.
To stop the disease a series of campaigns were done by UNICEF WHO and the government however they were not as successful as hoped for and so a fifth campaign was done from the 12th to 15th december. Because the polio vaccine is easy to apply, a couple of drops in the mouth, the campaign is done from door to door over the weekends as this is the best way to cover the maximum amount of 0 to 5 year olds.
I followed a vaccination team round a neighbourhood of fishermen in Conakry. In general people accepted the vaccination, but because there have been so many vaccination campaigns in the last weeks against polio and measles, some were confused and refused as they thought their children had already been vaccinated.

CIA: In Future, We Won't Derail Major International Public Health Efforts. (Thanks?)

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Denmark: Three Deaths from Drug-Resistant "Pig MRSA"

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Polio Declared An International Health Emergency

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World Health Organization: Antibiotic Resistance Grave Global Problem

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NDM: "A Great Challenge for the Future of Healthcare"

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CDC: Foodborne Illness in the U.S. Not Getting Better

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Traveling Abroad? Careful What You Carry Back… In Your Guts

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A Patient in Minnesota Has Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever. (Don't Panic.)

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Sneak Peek: What the White House is Thinking About Antibiotic Resistance

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Farm-Drug Companies Agree to Antibiotics Ban. More of the Same, or Fresh Start?

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Serious Resistant Infections Increasingly Found in Children

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The Public Comment Period on an FDA Farm-Antibiotics Rule Closes Tonight

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CDC: Some Hospitals Need Assistance Using Antibiotics Properly (And the New Federal Budget May Help)