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Head of the NHS hails 'historic day in the fight against coronavirus'
Staff at the Royal Free Hospital in London prepare for the first day of coronavirus vaccination on December 8. Staff will have 30min appointments and hope to vaccinate around 80 of the most vulnerable. Includes Simon Stevens visit and...
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CLEAN : Nigeria recruits churches and mosques to speed up mass vaccinations
Fearing a surge in cases over year-end travel season and wary of the emergence of new variants, Nigeria is recruiting religious leaders, churches, mosques and government offices in a bid to mobilise its mass vaccination campaign (Footage...
Bloomberg
Biden Says Employers Should Impose Vaccine Mandates
Oct.07 -- President Joe Biden calls on employers to require that their workers get a Covid-19 vaccine. Biden says his administration would soon issue regulations that require businesses with more than 100 employees to ensure workers are...
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CLEAN : Fighting Taliban and mistrust, Pakistan marks one year polio-free
Health workers go door-to-door on the outskirts of Pakistan's Mardan city, dripping bitter doses of polio vaccine into infants' mouths (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Bloomberg
Biden Wants Companies to Make Covid Shots Mandatory
Aug.23 -- President Joe Biden said full approval of the Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE Covid-19 vaccine should clear the way for companies to impose vaccine requirements for employees.
“I’m calling on more companies in the private sector to...
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CLEAN : Confusion reigns in Pakistan after polio guidelines
CLEAN : Confusion reigns in Pakistan after polio guidelines
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Africa celebrates one year without polio: UN
CLEAN : Africa celebrates one year without polio: UN
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A doctor prepares a dosage of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine.
A doctor prepares a dosage of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine.
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CLEAN : Kenya destroys stockpiles of fake polio vaccines
CLEAN : Kenya destroys stockpiles of fake polio vaccines
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : FILE Pakistan polio cases at 14 year high after threats
CLEAN : FILE Pakistan polio cases at 14 year high after threats
AFP News Agency
VOICED : Hope in push to eradicate polio from
VOICED : Hope in push to eradicate polio from
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Four polio vaccinators shot dead in SW Pakistan
CLEAN : Four polio vaccinators shot dead in SW Pakistan
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : India celebrates victory over polio
Indian leaders celebrated the eradication of polio on Tuesday, reminding doubters that something once thought impossible had been achieved and promising to tackle other diseases which still blight the country. CLEAN : India celebrates...
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VOICED : India sin polio, pero con secuelas
India se dispone a celebrar la erradicacion de la poliomielitis VOICED : India sin polio, pero con secuelas on January 14, 2014 in New Delhi, India (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Coping with rising energy prices in France, despite government aid
Colette Michel, a pensioner in western France, receives petrol vouchers to visit her sick brother and do her grocery shopping. But like millions of French people, she is struggling to pay her gas and electricity bills (Footage by AFPTV...
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CLEAN : Polio immunisation campaign begins in Malawi
Malawi launches an emergency national polio immunisation campaign following the detection of its first case in 30 years and Africa's first in five when a four-year old girl was diagnosed with wild polio last month, 30 years after the...
Curated Video
Polio Detected In NYC's Sewage, Suggesting Virus Circulating
“The risk to New Yorkers is real but the defense is so simple — get vaccinated against polio,” New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Vasan said.
Curated Video
Polio In U.S., U.K. And Israel Reveals Rare Risk Of Oral Vaccine
Since 2017, there have been 396 cases of polio caused by the wild virus, versus more than 2,600 linked to the oral vaccine, according to the WHO.
Curated Video
China's Dongfeng and French govt to invest in troubled car maker Peugeot
Loss-making French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen was handed a three (b) billion euro (4.1 (b) billion US dollars) lifeline on Wednesday backed by Chinese investors and the French government.
Chinese automaker Dongfeng and the French...
Curated Video
Vaccination sweep in war torn Somalia
00 00 Somali woman working for the Global Eradication Programme singing through megaphone announcing the immunisations
00 08 Somali women with children in slings coming into village for vaccinations
00 13 Health workers carrying...
Curated Video
Ice, Eisenhower, Vaccine
Polar Bear-niks
Somewhere in the Soviet Union, a swimming hole carved in the surface of a frozen river is enjoyed by a hardy group of bathers.
Ike Blasts "Despicable" Slurs
At his White House press conference, President Eisenhower...
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Polio programme resumes after Pakistan violence
It's a very different street battle.
From house to house, from mouth to mouth health teams here are working hard to reach as many children as possible, before polio reaches them.
Officials are worried recent polio outbreaks could worsen...
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Sick Syrian refugees are dying because of lack of funds to treat them
The sheer volume of Syrian refugees desperate for medical care is straining Lebanon's health systems to breaking point and UN organisations claim they're unable to help.
The United Nations says it can't afford to pay for more than the...