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Mpox 'not the new Covid', says WHO
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The mpox outbreak is not another Covid-19, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, because much is already known about the virus and the means to control it.
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Gaza records first polio case in 25 years as UN urges vaccinations
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Gaza has recorded its first polio case in 25 years, the Palestinian health ministry said, after U.N. chief Antonio Guterres called for pauses in the Israel-Hamas war to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children.
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UN wants brief Gaza truces to vaccinate children against polio
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U.N. agencies on Friday called for two seven-day breaks in the fighting in Gaza to vaccinate more than 640,000 children against polio, which has been detected in the wastewater.
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