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More than 34,000 people across Europe caught measles in the first two months of 2019, with the vast majority of cases in Ukraine, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday as it urged authorities..

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The World Health Organization said on Friday it feared continued “intense transmission” of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where deaths from a nine-month-old epidemic is 994 and..

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Over a million Pakistani children miss out on getting vaccinated against polio as false rumors send parents into a panic. The government blames religious hardliners for telling people that the vaccines..

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Two coal miners in southern Poland are fighting air pollution with specially designed benches which detect and purify dirty air. Matthew Stock reports.

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According to Reuters, mortar bombs crashed down on a suburb of Tripoli on Thursday, almost hitting a clinic and adding to people’s suffering after two weeks of an offensive by eastern troops on the..

Credit: Wochit News     Duration: 00:34Published on April 18, 2019

Officials say more than 1,000 people have been reported dead in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi since the cyclone made landfall last month.

Credit: Newsy Studio     Duration: 00:41Published on April 15, 2019

Health officials say the number of confirmed measles cases in the U.S. made its biggest jump this year in April, in the country's second-worst outbreak in nearly two decades. Linda So reports.

Credit: Reuters Studio     Duration: 01:03Published on April 15, 2019

The World Health Organization says an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, does not constitute a public health emergency of international concern. Al Jazeera’s Raheela Mahomed has..

Credit: Al Jazeera STUDIO     Duration: 02:38Published on April 13, 2019

There have been 1,206 confirmed and probable cases of the disease since the epidemic started last August, including 40 new cases in the last few days.

Credit: Newsy Studio     Duration: 01:08Published on April 12, 2019

Mozambique received some 900,000 cholera vaccine doses to combat a disease outbreak following last month's cyclone.

Credit: Newsy Studio     Duration: 00:58Published on April 3, 2019

According to CNN, cases of cholera have risen to more than 1,000 in cyclone-stricken areas of Mozambique. Authorities are scrambling to contain the spread of the highly contagious, largely waterborne..

Credit: Wochit News     Duration: 00:37Published on April 2, 2019

As of Friday, the number of cases had jumped to 139.

Credit: Newsy Studio     Duration: 01:10Published on March 29, 2019

A jury decided Edwin Hardeman should get $5.27 million in compensatory damages and $75 million in punitive damages.

Credit: Newsy Studio     Duration: 01:00Published on March 28, 2019

Health officials say at least five people have tested positive for the disease.

Credit: Newsy Studio     Duration: 00:56Published on March 27, 2019

Dozens of fragile patients poured into a clinic in the wrecked Mozambican port city of Beira on Wednesday, as the government said it had confirmed the first cases of cholera in the wake of deadly..

Credit: Reuters Studio     Duration: 01:31Published on March 27, 2019

Large crowds of people waited for treatment at medical centres in the central districts of the Mozambique city of Beira on Tuesday as government made preparations for a cholera outbreak that it says is..

Credit: Reuters Studio     Duration: 01:56Published on March 26, 2019

According to the country's health ministry, since the epidemic started, there have been 1,009 cases of the disease.

Credit: Newsy Studio     Duration: 01:03Published on March 25, 2019