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A world map showing vaccine-preventable disease hot spots, with colored circles indicating outbreak size and location. Measles outbreaks (red) appear across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Large chicken pox (green) and RSV (purple) outbreaks are visible in Asia. Yellow circles mark whooping cough in the Americas and Oceania, while smaller circles show diphtheria, hepatitis A and B, mumps, and polio outbreaks in Africa, Europe, and Asia. Circle size corresponds to outbreak magnitude, with a sample scale showing 10,000 cases. The map is labeled “Think Global Health.”

Tracking Measles and the World's Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

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This weekly map visualizes outbreaks of nine childhood diseases in collaboration with the International Society for Infectious Diseases

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Africa: Tackling Safety Concerns for Optimal Uptake

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Africa: Tackling Safety Concerns for Optimal Uptake

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To accelerate vaccine uptake, African countries have to battle the growing reservations toward the vaccine

UPDATED: Timeline of the Coronavirus

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A frequently updated tracker of emerging developments from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic

Photo shows a gloved hand holding a test tube labeled, “2019 nCoV” with two boxes ,marked “Positive” and “Negative.” The positive box is checked.

Pandemic Fund to Africa: Step to the Back of the Line

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Missed opportunities for impact in Africa in the Pandemic Fund's first round of grants

Pandemic Fund to Africa: Step to the Back of the Line

Poultry Vaccine Hesitancy

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When trade restrictions prevent effective public health interventions

Poultry Vaccine Hesitancy

The Rise of Infectious Diseases Due to Climate Change

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Building resilience to climate-linked diseases in India and other countries and communities most at risk

The Rise of Infectious Diseases Due to Climate Change

The Virus Doesn't Discriminate, But Hate Crimes Tell a Different Story

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Addressing the rise of hate crimes against Asian Americans

More than 200 people gathered on Washington Square Park to rally in support Asian community, against hate crime and white nationalism.

The Thousand and One Natural Shocks of COVID-19

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Assessing psychological impacts of coronavirus—the second in a two-part series on the mental health burden of COVID-19

The story title comes from Shakespeare: " The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to"—photo is of British actor Kenneth Branaugh holding a skull in the film Hamlet (1996). The photo shows the actor bathed in orange light and dressed in period garb holding a skull in a contemplative pose. GETTY IMAGES/Mondadori

We Must Let a Million Flowers Bloom

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For India to thrive, the voluntary, non-governmental organization sector must survive

A million blooming flowers—and then some! Here a woman works inside her mustard field on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on March 26, 2015. The photo shows a woman bending over in a field of bright yellow blossoms. REU-TERS/Danish Ismail

The Double Threat of COVID-19 in Africa

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Deaths from health-care disruptions due to COVID-19 are almost certain to outnumber deaths from the coronavirus itself

Education in Africa is being disrupted along with everything else—chickens here in a classroom converted into a poultry house because of COVID-19 in the town of Wang'uru, Kenya, on August 28, 2020. Picture shows a large gaggle of chickens inside a classroom, clucking around. One stands atop an overturned bucket. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

COVID-19 Has a Strong Chance of Winning on November 3

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Surging infection numbers suggest coronavirus cases will continue to increase in every state until the U.S. election

Estimated incidence per 100,000 people on November 3. Projections are based on no change in social distancing or mask use. The image shows a map of the United States colored according to each state's estimated incidence. IHME/Chris Troeger

Britain's Moral Bankruptcy Over COVID-19 Vaccines

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Why a study set to deliberately infect people with coronavirus is unethical, unnecessary, and likely to be uninformative

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reflected in a woman's eye as she watches his address to the nation following the outbreak of coronavirus in Manchester, England, on September 22, 2020. The photo shows a macro lens image of an eye with the image of the PM reflected in it. REUTERS/Phil Noble