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Trump Briefed on Opioid Epidemic
President Donald Trump attended a briefing on the country's opioid drug epidemic during his break from Washington on Tuesday.
The session was held at Trump's private golf course in central New Jersey, where the president is...
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Doctors testing plasma as "immune therapy"
Doctors around the world are dusting off a century-old treatment for infections: Infusions of blood plasma teeming with immune molecules that helped survivors beat the new coronavirus.
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Doctors testing plasma as "immune therapy"
Doctors around the world are dusting off a century-old treatment for infections: Infusions of blood plasma teeming with immune molecules that helped survivors beat the new coronavirus.
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RKI: Germany's virus infections rate has dropped
Germany's disease control center says the country's rate of coronavirus infections has dropped, but recommends more testing to treat more people and to trace infection chains.
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Economist's warnings on inequality amid pandemic
Renowned French economist Thomas Piketty pocketed a small fortune from the publication of a weighty book about the perils of economic inequality and the necessity of wealth taxes.
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Ex CDC head: We're at the begging of virus 'storm'
The former head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday warned the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. will "get worse before it gets better."
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Coronavirus hits rich and poor unequally in Latin America
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Feature on HIV/AIDS problem in Kenya ahead of G8 summit
1. GVs of Kibera (the biggest slum in Sub Saharan Africa. Home to 1.5 Million Kenyans, with 60% of them infected with HIV. The average per capita income totals only US $ 0.2 per day)
2. Exterior of Health Centre (community based project...
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Thais bring forward bird flu vaccine production plans
1. Various of Oseltamivir tablets, the drug that the Thai Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO) will be producing
2. Wide shot news conference
3. Mid-shot of GPO official holding up packet of tablets
4. SOUNDBITE (English): Doctor...
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Vaccinations, disinfection, WHO spokesman
Liaoning Province - 16 November 2005
1. People standing at checkpoint on road in Taian County waiting for vehicle disinfection
2. Health worker in protective suit spraying vehicle
3. Vehicle drives away after disinfection
4. Front gate...
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Oprah's school for girls opens in South Africa.
Oprah's School for Girls Opens in Africa
Oprah Winfrey's long-awaited school opened in South Africa, fulfilling a promise she made to former President Nelson Mandela six years ago and giving more than 150 girls a chance for a better...
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Obama urges world to do more to tackle Ebola at Global Health Security Summit
US President Barack Obama said on Friday that in an interconnected world, outbreaks of deadly viruses like Ebola have the potential to affect every nation.
Obama spoke to representatives of more than 40 countries attending a global...
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Actress Salma Hayek at hearing on violence against women
1. Wide shot of conference room
2. Mid shot, conference room
3 Mid shot of Republican Senator Arlin Spector
4. Mid shot, Salma Hayek
5. Mid shot, photographer
6. Wide shot, panel
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Salma Hayek, Actress:
"I care...
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People queue to receive flu vaccinations
1. University Hospital
2. Sign reading "policlinic"
3. Medical staff in line waiting to get a flu vaccine
4. Nurse preparing a vaccine
5. Flu vaccine box
6. Man walking into the room, rolling up his sleeves
7. Nurse administers...
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Red Cross comments on HIV/AIDS stigmatisation
Shangcai County, Henan Province - 11-12 November 2004
1. Wide pan of student volunteers from Jiangxi Agricultural University visiting a village with AIDS victims
2. Boy whose father is blind and is HIV positive, writing in student's...
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Dengue fever outbreak
1. Various of children at Benjamin Bloom hospital
2. Mother with dengue infected child
3. Sick baby in crib
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ana Coral, baby's mother:
"They took exams to see what he had and they came out positive for dengue...
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Fears of spread of disease amid devastation
Nagapatinam, Tamil Nadu
1. Wide of partially-destroyed street, people passing by
2. Various of bloated bodies recovered on Friday morning
3. Pan of pile overturned fishing boats on shore
4. Pool of sewage in street
5. Various of...
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Israel/France - Medication for AIDS patients
Israeli victims of AIDS are being denied the "cocktail" of drugs which is the only known way of increasing the life expectancy of patients. There is no cure for AIDS but the combination drug therapy has proved effective in slowing down...
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Fears that SARS could become endemic as summit meets
1. Exterior of Foreign Ministry building in Bangkok
2. Pan from SARS conference sign to ASEAN country flags
3. Security guards
4. Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, Goh Chok-Cong, Prime Minister of Singapore, and Sultan of...
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Kofi Annan's opening comments at Franco-African summit
1. Wide shot summit
2. Annan approaching podium
3. Cutaway Thabo Mbeki and Chirac
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General:
"We must do our utmost to help Cote D'Ivoire regain the secure path it had known for so many...
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VENEZUELA: 2000 PEOPLE REPORTED TO BE INFECTED WITH DENGUE FEVER
Spanish/Nat
An epidemic of dengue fever has struck Venezuela and as many as two thousand people are reported to be getting infected every week.
The disease is spread by mosquitoes and the epidemic is blamed on wet weather.
Since there's...
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Church helps AIDS victims regain self-esteem through work
1. Soup kitchen of Pimville Methodist Church
2. Woman stirring soup
3. People eating soup
4. Coffin in Church
5. Singing the Gospel: "Oh touch me now."
6. Reverend Sephapo singing
7. Congregation of women singing
8. Wide shot of...
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RR7742A MIDDLE EAST CHOLERA IS THE BATTLE WON
Many Middle Eastern countries are currently fighting
an epidemic of the ancient killer disease cholera,
which has struck thousands and killed over 100. The
Arab League has mounted a hygiene programme and
called for innoculations in an...