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This cancer survivor wants to stop kids in the Philippines from lighting up
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JUDY WOODRUFF: Turning a corner, after decades of health warnings, cigarette sales have fallen sharply in th...
Why southern China is a hotbed for disease development
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GWEN IFILL: Next: As we have seen with recent pandemics, emerging diseases like Zika and Ebola can cross conti...
Brazil grapples with Zika health emergency as Carnival begins
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JUDY WOODRUFF: U.S. health officials put out new guidance today about the Zika virus. For the first time, they...
As epidemic escalates, can U.S. aid for Ebola be deployed quickly enough?
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RELATED LINKSCuba pledges 165 healthcare workers to combat Ebola outbreak U.S. offers support to fragile, West...
Obama pledges money and military personnel to nations struck by Ebola
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RELATED LINKSCuba pledges 165 healthcare workers to combat Ebola outb...
U.S. offers support to fragile, West African health systems to combat Ebola
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RELATED LINKSThird U.S. doctor with Ebola lands in Nebraska Why Ebola is proving so hard to contain The world...
News Wrap: Head of African terror group, Al Shabaab is dead
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JUDY WOODRUFF: The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog conceded that its progress...
One family’s quest to unite orphaned Chinese girls with a happy home
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RELATED LINKSRwanda’s government moves to close orphanages Meet Agnes: orphan, student, survivor of sexual vio...
Why Ebola is proving so hard to contain
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And, Dr. Frieden, there was a level of urgency and concern put forward today that I don’t think we have...
Ebola’s spread hastens preparations for vaccine testing
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RELATED LINKSCDC director: ‘Ebola will get worse before it gets better’ American doctor speaks out about his E...
WHO announces $490 million plan for fighting Ebola
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RELATED LINKSCDC director: ‘Ebola will get worse before it gets bette...
Ebola tensions ease in quarantined Liberia, but government mistrust lingers
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HARI SREENIVASAN: As we reported yesterday there are now more than 2600 confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola...
Persistence is key to wiping out polio outbreaks in fragile nations
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GWEN IFILL: Public health officials around the world are sounding the alarm this week about the return of poli...
News Wrap: UN says polio outbreak is global emergency
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GWEN IFILL: Fresh fighting erupted in Ukraine today in a key city sei...
Unprecedented Ebola outbreak crosses borders in West Africa
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JUDY WOODRUFF: Several countries in West Africa are now coping with the worst outbreak of the Ebola virus in y...