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World
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International
12/21/2022 8:23:37 PM
The head of the World Health Organization said the agency is ``very concerned'' about rising reports of severe coronavirus disease across China after the country largely abandoned its "zero COVID'' policy, warning that its lagging vaccination rate could result in large numbers of vulnerable people getting infected.
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World
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Africa
12/8/2022 6:03:10 PM
Uganda on Thursday received its first shipment of trial vaccines against a strain of Ebola that has claimed dozens of lives, amid cautious optimism the outbreak could soon be over.
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World
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Africa
12/1/2022 3:22:58 PM
Africa's top public health body says the continent is set to receive its first batch of mpox vaccines as a donation from South Korea.
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World
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Africa
11/16/2022 6:10:50 PM
The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that he expects the first doses of Ebola vaccine targeting the strain behind an outbreak in Uganda to arrive in the country next week.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/9/2022 5:44:59 PM
Egypt’s Ambassador to Lebanon Yasser Elwy announced that a new batch of medical aid including medicine and vaccines arrived in Beirut earlier Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
10/30/2022 9:34:31 PM
The development of an effective vaccine for malaria has proved to be far more challenging than developing a vaccine to protect people from COVID-19. Several different COVID-19 vaccines were developed and approved for use within a year of the disease’s emergence.
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Life & Style
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Health
10/18/2022 1:51:55 PM
Nasal vaccines could still be a powerful future weapon in the fight against Covid-19 despite "disappointing" recent trial results for an AstraZeneca spray, experts say.
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Egypt
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Health
9/24/2022 4:56:37 PM
Egypt's Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar inaugurated on Saturday a fully automated cooling logistical complex for the storage and distribution of vaccines, which serves the country's plan to become a vaccine hub for Africa.
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World
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Africa
9/14/2022 7:01:56 PM
With monkeypox cases subsiding in Europe and parts of North America, many scientists say now is the time to prioritize stopping the virus in Africa.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/8/2022 2:06:31 PM
Nasal COVID-19 vaccines could help to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control, the World Health Organization said Wednesday after homegrown products were approved in India and China.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/4/2022 2:47:47 PM
Entirely new COVID-19 variants could emerge this winter but existing vaccines should protect people from serious illness and death, the EU's drug agency said .
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Egypt
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Health
8/18/2022 12:25:11 PM
Coronavirus in Egypt is “fully under control” and the country has recorded “very few” cases in the past 10 days, Presidential Advisor for Health Affairs Mohamed Awad Tag El-Din said on television on Wednesday.
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World
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International
8/15/2022 8:39:47 PM
The top executive at Pfizer, a leading producer of COVID-19 vaccines, has tested positive for the virus and says he is experiencing very mild symptoms.
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World
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Region
8/4/2022 10:46:59 PM
The United States on Thursday declared monkeypox a public health emergency, a move that should free up new funds, assist in data gathering and allow the deployment of additional personnel in the fight against the disease.
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Egypt
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Health
8/2/2022 2:59:16 PM
Egypt is one step closer to exporting homemade COVID-19 vaccines after the World Health Organisation (WHO) rated the Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) maturity level three (ML-3), its second highest rating, according to the WHO’s Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO).
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World
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International
7/30/2022 2:51:01 PM
Moves by rich countries to buy large quantities of monkeypox vaccine, while declining to share doses with Africa, could leave millions of people unprotected against a more dangerous version of the disease and risk continued spillovers of the virus into humans, public health officials are warning.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
7/27/2022 10:37:00 AM
Egypt is on alert for monkeypox, though no cases have yet been detected.
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World
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International
7/23/2022 6:36:29 PM
The expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an ``extraordinary'' situation that qualifies as a global emergency, the World Health Organization chief said Saturday, a declaration that could spur further investment in treating the once-rare disease and worsen the scramble for scarce vaccines.
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World
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International
7/10/2022 1:08:02 PM
A foot-and-mouth disease outbreak has disrupted ritual slaughter of animals to mark Eid al-Adha as millions of Muslims across Indonesia were celebrating one of the biggest holidays in the Islamic calendar Sunday.
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World
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Africa
7/1/2022 4:21:20 PM
Health authorities in Africa say they are treating the expanding monkeypox outbreak there as an emergency and are calling on rich countries to share the world's limited supply of vaccines in an effort to avoid the glaring equity problems seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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