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India polio campaign

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Can polio success help India improve its public health?

The legacy of polio eradication gives India a golden opportunity to fix its scandalously poor healthcare system. Will it take it?

People in an airport

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There could already be 40,000 people carrying Zika in the US

An infant with microcephaly caused by zika infection

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Zika epidemic could burn out in 3 years but return after 10

Angolan child covers eyes while being vaccinated

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A yellow fever epidemic has hit central Africa. Is Asia next?

Masked health worker addresses people in makeshift isolation ward in Liberia

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Ebola virus does a total shutdown to hide before a fresh strike

Crosses leaning against a tree

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Ebola outbreak caused twice as many deaths as we thought

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7 ways the war on Zika mosquitoes could be won

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4 million at risk of Zika infection as El Niño increases spread

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Yet again we have been blindsided by an emerging virus

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World must get ready now for the next big health threat

After Ebola, a new global body is needed to contain future major disease threats. Will nations manage to unite to keep us safe?

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Drug combo halves the time needed to cure resistant TB

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Tuberculosis now leading cause of death from infectious disease

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World Health Organization may approve first malaria vaccine

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Nurse who survived Ebola in hospital with post-viral symptoms