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150 Clean Cookstoves Change Lives In Guatemala
By Benjamin Seidman
SANTA CRUZ DEL QUICHE, Guatemala, April 21, 2022 (ENS) – “Before, it wasted a lot of firewood and it’s very expensive. We don’t have jobs to get [...]
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Bird Flu Infects Chickens, Turkeys Worldwide, Millions Killed
WASHINGTON, DC, April 1, 2022 (ENS) – Highly infectious outbreaks of bird flu in 23 states since January have led to the killing of more than 17 million chickens and [...]
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Animals Can Form Viral Reservoirs Where Covid Variants Breed
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 7, 2022 (ENS) – SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is still spreading among people globally as we enter the third year of the coronavirus pandemic. The [...]
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Calming Anti-Vax Fear: COVID Vaccines Do Not Harm Fertility
BOSTON, Massachusetts, January 23, 2022 (ENS) – A couple who gets vaccinated for COVID-19 need not worry that the vaccine will impair fertility, but males who become infected by the [...]
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Ultrashort-pulse Laser Makes Short Work of Superbugs
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, November 29, 2021 (ENS) – Lasers that emit ultrashort pulses of light can kill multidrug-resistant bacteria such as MRSA and E. coli, researchers at Washington University School [...]
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G20 Creates Finance-Health Task Force to Address Pandemics
ROME, Italy, October 30, 2021 (ENS) – The G20 nations are getting serious about controlling the coronavirus pandemic and any future pandemic that might arise. On Friday in their first [...]
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COVID-19 Infected More Americans in 2020 than Official Tallies Show
By Dr. Francis Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health, United States
BETHESDA, Maryland, September 7, 2021 (ENS) – At the end of last year, you may recall hearing news reports [...]
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WHO Pandemic, Epidemic Intelligence Hub Opens in Germany
BERLIN, Germany, September 2, 2021 (ENS) – The tools to forecast, detect and assess epidemic and pandemic risks are on offer from a new central intelligence collection and sharing hub [...]
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Bloomberg Healthy Cities Partnership Expands to 70 Cities
NEW YORK, New York, August 20, 2021 (ENS) – Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced a $31 million investment to bring six new cities on three continents into its Partnership for Healthy [...]
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Button-Activated Face Masks Can Diagnose COVID-19
BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 2, 2021 (ENS) – Scientists have found a way to embed synthetic biology-based sensors into fabrics, creating wearable biosensors that can be programmed to detect pathogens and [...]
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G20 Health Ministers Dissolve Barriers to Sharing Billion+ Vaccine Doses
ROME, Italy, May 23, 2021 (ENS) – Leaders of the G20 have committed to a series of actions to accelerate the end of the COVID-19 crisis throughout the world and [...]
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Wealthy Nations Asked to Delay Youth Vaccines, Donate to COVAX
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 14, 2021 (ENS) – Scanty vaccine supplies in low and lower-middle income countries cannot cover even the innoculation of health care workers, the head of the World [...]
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Tobacco Use Costs the World US$1.4 Trillion Each Year
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 20, 2021 (ENS) – Tobacco kills up to half of its users, and the human and economic costs of tobacco are on the rise, the World Health [...]
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Silica-Silver Plastic Film Kills Coronavirus on Contact
SAO PAULO, Brazil, February 13, 2021 (ENS) – A plastic film that can deactivate 99.99 percent of the virus that causes COVID-19 in 15 minutes has been released by [...]
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Dreams During Pandemic Reveal Fear, Mental Suffering
SAO PAULO, Brazil, February 10, 2021 (ENS) – Amid the isolation imposed by COVID-19, the brain resorts to dreams in an effort to metabolize the intense emotions experienced during [...]
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Living Near Trees Prevents Blood Vessel Damage
ROCKVILLE, Maryland, January 21, 2021 (ENS) – Living near an abundance of green plants and trees can offset the negative effects of air pollution on blood vessel health, according [...]
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UK Rolls Out New Vaccine, But Lockdown Ordered
LONDON, UK, January 4, 2021 (ENS) – The first vaccinations using the Oxford University/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine were given today to members of the British public as the National [...]
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Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Nearly 95% Effective
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, November 16, 2020 (ENS) – Moderna, a Massachusetts biotechnology company pioneering therapeutics and vaccines, today announced that its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, mRNA-1273, has been rated 94.5 percent [...]
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Pfizer 1st With COVID Vaccine, Claims Over 90% Efficacy
NEW YORK, New York, November 11, 2020 (ENS) – Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is the first company to announce a successful vaccine candidate that is safe and effective in preventing [...]
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Calling All Film-Makers
By Georgia Seidman
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 9, 2020 (ENS) – The opportunity has arrived for young film-makers to submit an original short film to the second Health for All [...]