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CDC Alert - Level 2, Practice Enhanced Precautions

Fact checked by Holly Hawbaker

Dec 13

5 min read

Polio Alert Issued for 8 Countries

CDC issued poliovirus outbreak travel alerts for certain Asia and Pacific Ocean countries

Asian airlines

Fact checked by Holly Hawbaker

Dec 11

6 min read

WHO’s Tailoring Immunization Programmes Aimed to Reduce Under-Vaccinations

TIP aspires to enable equitable access to the health protection offered by vaccines

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Childhood Diseases

Fact checked by Holly Hawbaker

Dec 11

4 min read

Cholera Vaccinations for Over 635,000 Children

Oral Cholera Vaccination campaign at refugee camps in Bangladesh

people in a river

Fact checked by Robert Carlson, MD

Dec 8

4 min read

Polio Case Confirmed in Malaysia

Polio cVDPV type 1 circulation detected in Indonesia, Myanmar, and Papua New Guinea during 2019

malaysia downtown city

Fact checked by Robert Carlson, MD

Dec 6

5 min read

Just One Typhoid Vaccination Found Very Effective in Nepal

Typbar typhoid conjugate vaccine TCV shown to be 81 percent safe and effective in reducing typhoid in children

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