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CLEAN : Ebola vaccine may be up to 100% effective: WHO (2)
A prototype vaccine for Ebola may be up to 100 percent effective in protecting against the deadly virus according to the World Health Organization (WHO)
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VOICED : OMS espera controlar muy rapidamente brote de ebola en RDC
La directora de la Organizacion Mundial de la Salud espera que el brote de ebola al noreste de la Republica Democratica del Congo pueda ser controlada muy rapidamente segun dijo durante una reunión con representantes del gobierno
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CLEAN : Ethiopians proud after Tedros elected new WHO chief
Ethiopians say they are happy and proud after former minister Tedros Adhanom was elected as the new head of the World Health Organization the first African at the helm of an agency widely seen as needing major reforms
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CLEAN : 100,000 cholera cases 789 deaths in Yemen in past month: WHO
A cholera outbreak in war ravaged Yemen has killed nearly 800 people and infected more than 100,000 others in just over a month the World Health Organization said Thursday
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VOICED : OMS llama a combatir las enfermedades no transmisibles
Los asistentes a la Conferencia Mundial sobre Enfermedades No Transmisibles de la Organizacion Mundial de la Salud pidieron el miercoles unir esfuerzos para atender esta epidemia que incluye padecimientos como cancer la diabetes y males...
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CLEAN : Zimbabwe opposition labels Mugabe WHO appointment scandalous
A spokesman for the main opposition party in Zimbabwe MDC-T says the World Health Organization's decision to name President Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador was scandalous
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CLEAN : Cholera outbreak hits war-torn Yemen
War-torn Yemen is suffering from a cholera outbreak the UN's children agency and the World Health Organization said Friday with eight cholera cases mostly involving children recorded in one neighbourhood of the rebel-held capital Sanaa
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Health workers vaccinated as they fight outbreak of Ebola virus
The Democratic Republic of Congo began an Ebola vaccination campaign on Monday in a northwest provincial capital, in a major effort to stem an outbreak that already has spread from rural towns into a city of more than 1 million people.
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WHO: Congo approves use of experimental Ebola vaccine
The Director-General of the World Health Organisation says Congo officials have agreed to use an experimental Ebola vaccine.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday that use of the vaccine could begin by the end of this...
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Painful toll of DR Congo's ebola outbreak on the family of a victim
More than 680 people have received Ebola vaccinations in the three areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where dozens of cases of the deadly virus have been confirmed, the country's health ministry has said.
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WHO chief: Ebola vaccination in DRCongo underway
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will begin administering an experimental Ebola vaccine in Mbandaka, the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed on Monday.
Mbandaka, a north-western city of 1.2 million where the...
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Taiwan 'angry' over not being invited to WHO assembly, cites China tensions
Taiwan's health minister on Sunday said the island felt "very angry" it was not invited to the World Health Organization (WHO) assembly in Geneva.
Chen Shih-Chung attributed the UN body's refusal to let Taiwan participate...
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Chinese FM Wang Yi meets WHO Director General
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization on Tuesday in Beijing.
Tedros has met with several Chinese officials this week, including First Lady...
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CLEAN : FILE: Cholera death toll climbs to 45 in Zimbabwe
At least 45 people have been killed by cholera in Zimbabwe in the past three weeks the World Health Organization (WHO) says describing the strain as multi drug resistant
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DRC Ebola outbreak not of "international concern"
The World Health Organization says it is facing a number of barriers in stopping the spread of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo but the situation does not yet warrant being declared a global emergency.
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WHO emergencies chief predicts six more months battling Ebola in DRCongo
The emergencies chief for the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said he expected that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo would last at least another six months.
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WHO chief visits DRC Ebola centre after attack
The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) alongside the Democratic Republic of Congo health minister visited an Ebola treatment centre in Butembo on Sunday, a day after the centre was attacked by heavily armed assailants.
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US army help in Mozambique; WHO on cholera
Mozambican and international health workers raced on Monday to contain a cholera outbreak in the cyclone-hit city of Beira and surrounding areas, where the number of cases has jumped to more than 1,000.
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WHO: Ebola outbreak in DR Congo not yet an emergency
The ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo does not yet warrant being declared a global emergency but is of "deep concern," the World Health Organisation said Friday.
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WHO: 1510 cases in Congo ebola outbreak
The World Health Organisation said Friday that Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo stood at 1,510, including 994 deaths.