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Demand for the cholera vaccine is soaring – this company might have a solution
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoCases of cholera have surged across much of the world, accelerated by war, climate change and...
Aid workers in Syria fear cholera spread if cross-border support halted
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHumanitarian workers operating in the last opposition-held part of Syria fear a cholera outbreak...
8 infectious diseases that made a comeback in 2022 unexpectedly — and illnesses that could surge in...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoERs are short-staffed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, making the resurgence of other, older infectious...
Texas history shows that plagues like COVID don't just go away
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoToday's Think, Texas column is dedicated to remembering the echoes of plague in this state. For no...
Maybe rats didn't spread the Black Death after all, new evidence suggests
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA large number of black rats swarming all over each other. The Black Death ravaged Europe between...
Survivors reel in aftermath of 1 of Africa’s deadliest cyclones
Good Morning America via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn the trail of its double landfall, Cyclone Freddy has left a death toll of at least 522 people...
Zenysis raises $13.3M to scale its big data platform for emergencies across Africa, Asia and South...
TechCrunch· 2 years agoZenysis Technologies, a big data startup headquartered in San Francisco and Cape Town, announced...
UN to vote on aid deliveries to Syria's rebel-held northwest
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe U.N. Security Council is set to vote Monday on a resolution that would continue humanitarian aid...
Africa, Where Monkeypox Is Endemic, Gets No Vaccines
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance· 2 years ago(Bloomberg) -- Africa, the only continent where monkeypox is endemic, has yet to receive vaccines for the virus as the infectious disease spreads around...
Dr. Carissa Etienne, who led COVID-19 response in Latin America and Caribbean, is dead
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 6 months agoDr. Carissa Etienne, the medical doctor and public health trailblazer whose calm demeanor and...