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Reactions to shutdown of Philippines TV network
Rights groups and observers expressed alarm Wednesday over a government agency’s shutdown of ABS-CBN, the Philippines' largest TV and radio network, which has been a major provider of news on the coronavirus pandemic.
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Virus Needs a Coherent, Coordinated Response: EU Health Commissioner
Feb.24 -- EU Health & Food Safety Commissioner Stella Kyriakides discusses the EU’s plan to help fight coronavirus.
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Democrats Propose Child Tax Credits In Relief Plan
Democrats revealed a key part of the deal that aims to keep children out of poverty.
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Mobile avian flu testing kit at airports
Catania, Sicily, Italy
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1. Wide of plane landing
2. People at the airport
3. Various of doctor testing man for avian flu
4. Various of doctor analysing test on portable facilities
5. Man waiting outside
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EU Agrees to Cut Greenhouse Gases by 2030
Oct. 24 -- European Union leaders are meeting in Brussels to discuss Energy security, Ebola, the crisis in Ukraine and climate change. The members have already agreed to cut greenhouse gases by at least 40% from 1990 levels by 2030....
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Cheesy feet helping scientists tackle malarial mosquitoes
London, UK, May 30, 2013
1. Close of mosquitoes feeding through blood filled membrane
2. Various of volunteer Felix Preston walking across laboratory and pulling on foil tube
3. Close zoom out from odour pumping system to volunteer...
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WHO chief says swine flu virus hasn't mutated into more deadly strain
1. Wide of World Health Organisation Regional Committee for Western Pacific
2. Mid of delegates
3. Banner, reading: (English) "Sixtieth Session of the World Health Organisation Regional Committee for the Western Pacific"
4. Margaret...
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Report: Harare at risk of cholera outbreak due to collapsed water treatment and sanitation facilities
Zimbabwe's capital is at risk of a new cholera outbreak caused by collapsed water treatment and sanitation facilities, according to a Human Rights Watch report issued on Tuesday.
Residents in Harare's most impoverished townships have...
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The California Nurses Associated is urging for more training for nurses following the Ebola outbreak which has already killed one in the U.S. and sickened a nurse in Dallas, Texas. (Oct. 13)
Federal health officials on Monday urged the nation's hospitals to "think Ebola" and launched a review of procedures for treating infected patients, while the World Health Organization called the outbreak "the most severe, acute health...
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UN reports says HIV epidemic growing
1. Poster announcing launch of AIDS epidemic update
2. Launch function; audience
3. UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot and Indian minister for statistics and implementation Oscar Fernandes releasing the report
4. Close-up cover of...
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The peanut processing company at the heart of a national salmonella outbreak is going out of business
HEADLINE: Peanut Corp. of America files for bankruptcy
CAPTION: The peanut processing company at the heart of a national salmonella outbreak is going out of business. (Feb. 13)
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Century after pandemic, science takes its best shot at flu ++voice track++
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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 it swept the globe.
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Govt launch AIDS campaign for Carnival
Brazil's Health Ministry is using fake dating profiles and massive condom giveaways to promote safe sex during the country's no-holds-barred Carnival celebrations.
In response to the growing popularity of hookup apps like Tinder and...
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USA: WASHINGTON: ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS MARCH
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Animal rights activists marched to the Capitol in Washington on Sunday preaching love and compassion for all animals - human and non-human.
The march attracted more than 40 animal rights groups, including People for the...
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The Importance of Tourism to Jamaicas Financial Future
Oct. 24 ""Former Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holnness discusses concerns over Ebola, the countrys upcoming elections and tourism. He speaks on ""Street Smart."" (Source: Bloomberg)
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While on a trip to New Mexico, Dr. Toby Merlin of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says people in the United States will not be safe until the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is under control. (Oct. 9)
An official with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the key to saving thousands of lives in the battle against Ebola will be stemming the spread of the deadly virus to those in West Africa who are uninfected.
Dr....
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Health workers in protective clothes remove body of Ebola victim from house
Liberian authorities in Monrovia collected the body of a woman on Sunday who died after being infected with the Ebola virus.
Health workers removed the dead body in a plastic bag and sprayed behind them as they left the house.
The...
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Patient isolated and undergoing tests, likely does not have Ebola, say health officials
Officials at a New York City hospital said on Monday that doctors there are performing tests for Ebola on a patient who recently travelled to West Africa.
Doctors at Mount Sinai Medical Centre said a male patient with a high fever and...
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Man accidentally inhales anthrax, Mayor presser, man's home
1. Various of apartment building in Greenwich Village, where anthrax-infected man lives
2. Police on street in front of apartment
3. Wide of street in Greenwich Village where anthrax-infected man lives
4. Wide of storage facility in...
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Miami-Dade County health officials are reporting the first suspected local case of dengue fever, a potentially serious mosquito-borne illness that had once disappeared from the United States.
HEADLINE: Miami health officials confirm dengue fever
CAPTION: Miami-Dade County health officials are reporting the first suspected local case of dengue fever, a potentially serious mosquito-borne illness that had once disappeared from...
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Singapore's Tourism Chief: Coronavirus Impact Could Be Worse than 2003 SARS
Feb.10 -- Singapore could see a 25% to 30% decline in tourist arrivals and receipts this year due to the coronavirus outbreak, its tourism chief Keith Tan says. During an exclusive interview with Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin, Singapore...
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Everyone Has Had a Coronavirus Before: A Cellular Biologist Explains
Feb.28 -- Simon Clarke, associate professor in cellular microbiology at University of Reading, discusses the spread of coronavirus, when it will be declared a pandemic and what can be done to contain the virus. He speaks on “Bloomberg...
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A recent CDC study found that half of black women, between the ages of 14 and 49, are infected with genital herpes. It's not a fatal illness and the rate has been consistent for a decade, so why is the CDC trying to combat the illness?
HEADLINE: 50 percent of black women infected with herpes
CAPTION: A recent CDC study found that half of black women, between the ages of 14 and 49, are infected with genital herpes. It's not a fatal illness and the rate has been...
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WHO investigation shows H5N1 virus mutated slightly in family cluster
Jakarta, 23 June 2006
1. Various of bird flu conference
2. Indonesian official presenting report results on board
3. Close-up of official speaking
4. Close up of slide on screen reading: "NOT A PANDEMIC"
5. Wide of Keiji Fukuda,...