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CDC scraps plan to help Texas schools curb measles over layoffs, employee says
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has scrapped a plan to offer help curbing measles in Texas schools after ...
Measles Outbreak Expands Begging for a Drug to Treat the Infection - NanoViricides Declares it is Ready to Fight the Outbreak
NanoViricides, Inc., a publicly traded company (NYSE Amer.:NNVC) (the “Company”), and a leading global pioneer in the development of broad-spectrum antivirals based on host-mimetic nanomedicine ...
Why Cuts to USAID and the CDC Mean More Sickness in the U.S. | Opinion
There are cuts to pandemic preparedness, even though we are barely emerging from the Covid pandemic, and it was less than 10 ...
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Africa's Plan to Fill Health Funding Gaps Amidst Declining Coffers [press release]
Africa's top public health institution is planning to tap more funds from domestic sources to protect the gains made over the past two decades in epidemic preparedness and response, following a steep ...
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Planning for Outbreak Response Readiness [press release]
Ebola had shown its brutal side ... African Volunteers Health Corps. "When Africa CDC was launched in 2017, it took over and materialized the decision to establish an emergency workforce by the Heads ...
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Can Africa Get Better At Fighting Epidemics and Infodemics? [press release]
"During the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, we saw how deeply misinformation ... Director of Digital Learning and Innovation at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. As Africa CDC continues to strengthen ...
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Burundi Revises Outbreak Response Plans [press release]
Burundi has revised and approved its Mpox Response Plan and Marburg-Ebola Preparedness Plan, signaling a high-level commitment to strengthening outbreak response efforts in the country.A validation ...
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Africa CDC Makes Effort to Secure Funds for Africa's Health Security [press release]
Africa's top public health institution is warning of the risks of losing the gains made over the past two decades in epidemic preparedness and response. At the heart of the concern is a steep decline ...
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Weekly Special Press Briefing On the Mpox Outbreak and Other Health Emergencies in Africa [press release]
Join us for the weekly engagement with the media to provide updates on the mpox outbreak in multiple countries and the Ebola disease outbreak in Uganda. The session will also highlight extreme weather ...
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'Unprecedented crisis' in Africa healthcare: report
Africa's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday that the continent faces "an unprecedented financing crisis" that could lead to between two to four million additional deaths ...
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Susan Monarez, Trump’s nominee for CDC director, faces an unprecedented and tumultuous era at the agency
The CDC is essential to promoting and protecting health in the ... New and emerging infectious diseases, like measles, COVID-19 and Ebola, are sparking outbreaks that can spread quickly in ...