The centre has become a political flashpoint in the US with some Republican senators accusing President Biden of wanting to finance "crack pipes".

B.C. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says a second surge of COVID-19 cases is inevitable. Brenda Coleman, an epidemiologist at the University of Toronto, says we can learn from the history of pandemics. 

Experts expect 2020 to be marked by high rates of dengue, which can fill ICUs even absent the pressures of coronavirus.

Strong "public health surveillance" will be necessary to allow an economic restart with which people are comfortable says epidemiologist David Fisman from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. That will include expanded testing,...

For most Europeans, the coronavirus outbreak in China was more or less a television event with little impact on their personal lives.



That changed dramatically...

The disease had been confirmed in the capital Kampala on January 30 following the death of a male nurse

Flu cases are surging across Europe post-holiday season, hitting children under 15 and adults over 60 the hardest. Hospitals in France and Spain report rising admissions, with influenza B dominant.

Controversy about where swine flu started in Mexico

Perote, Veracruz - 27 April
2009
1. Man wearing surgical mask walking past fence o
f pig farm
2. Mid of man with pi
gs in enclosure
Pandemic fears as swine flu...

Children; influenza epidemic

Children; influenza epi
demic
Renderings of electric ref
rigerators
Postal service / air
mail / postmen
Development
of municipal airport
America's fascination with flyi
ng - air shows,...

1. Wide exterior of hospital

2. Close-up sign outside hos
pital
3. Woman walking in hospital corridor wi
th mask on
4. Children
wearing masks
5. Muhammet
Ozcan on respirator
6. Various of...

Spread of deadly Ebola virus to Guinea capital raises fears; at least 70 dead

Conakry - 29 Mar
2014
1. Wide exterior shot of China Guinea Cooperation hospital, in Kepi area of Conakry, where Ebola...

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A century after one of history's most catastrophic disease outbreaks, scientists are rethinking how to guard against another super-flu like the 1918 influenza that killed tens of millions as...

The famine-stricken state of Bihar is hit by a smallpox epidemic.

1. ws vil
lage
2. mcu ha open sewer tilt up to
villagers
3. mcu chil
d with smallpox
4. ms
child with smallpox
5. mcu
child tilt...

1) ls Meschede village, center of current epidemic

2) ms road at edge of restricted area cordoned
off
3) cu sign: Smallpox Restric
ted Area
4) ms, sign pan to iso
lation hospital
5) ms ambulance
car leaves...

Measures taken to protect city against feared epidemic of deadly bubonic plague. Once inoculated, people receive a pass which will allow travel into Saigon by showing they have a clean bill of health and that they've been...

A smallpox epidemic is spreading through famine stricken Bihar State in India. People are shown being inoculated against the disease.

1. ms two children walk
along
2. cu child with face covered with smal
lpox rash...

SHOWS1) exterior isolation hospital2) nurse giving innoculations3) road at edge of restricted area, cordoned off 4) sign: restricted area, pan to road5) road and restriction signs6) lorry past on road7) Village sign: "Meschede"8)...

Typhoid epidemic in Florida migrant camp clinic scenesLN40881

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area
2 houses and washi
ng on line
>3 camp office <
br/>4 people in cam
p
5 mother and child

6 tilt to litt
er on...

1. Wide exterior of Saint Nicolas Hospital, people outside

2. Close up gate of hospital, people jostling to ge
t in
3. Pan right on queue of people lining up waiting to b
e admitted
4. Mid of...

1. Wide pan of Asia Society meeting

2. United Nations under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief John Holmes at p
odium
3. SOUNDBITE (English): John Holmes, United Nations...

1. Tilt down trees to flooded street

2. Pan from furniture on a
roof
3. Travelling shot of people on
a verandah
4. Mid shot of family rowing
past in a boat
5. Var
ious of pig...

Hundreds die as the cholera epidemic rages through the Indian countryside. An intense programme of inoculation is being undertaken.

1. ws train enters station and town sign CU
TTACK
2. ms people enter...

Typhoid epidemic hospitalises more than 400. Parliamentary Under Secretary J A Stoddart visits Aberdeen and gives a press conference on the epidemic.

1. cu newspaper advert headline TYPHOID TOLL TOP
S 300
2. cu...

The cholera epidemic in Italy has spread to the resort of Bari

1. vs of Bari, the port, fishermen with
nets
2. Signs on the beach in Italian 'No bathing, no
littering'
3. mcu rubbi
sh in the water
4. vs mcu's...