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Experts: Low risk of disease spreading
Health experts in Hong Kong on Sunday downplayed concerns that the MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak in South Korea would spread outside the country. There was no evidence to suggest the virus, currently confined around...
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AP Investigation: Rio Beaches Dangerously Dirty
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYRIO DE JANEIRO - 8 JULY 20161. Wide of tourists in the Corcovado (where the statue of Christ the Redeemer is) and Guanabara Bay and sugar loaf behind2. Various...
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Macron meets virus researchers as cases rise
French President Emmanuel Macron met with top researchers and representatives of pharmaceutical companies involved in the diagnosis, treatment and research of the Covid-19 vaccine in Paris on Thursday.
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Chicago prepares for possible new viral illness
Health officials in Chicago are preparing for possible cases of a new viral illness that has killed nearly 20 people in China and sickened hundreds.
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SKor government postpones school exams
As efforts to control the coronavirus outbreak intensify, South Korean students are the latest to be affected.
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CLEAN : "Herd immunisation over long-term" advises leading French virologist
Bruno Lina, professor of virology at the University Hospital of Lyon and member of the scientific council consulted by the French state, believes collective immunisation from Covid-19 "must be carried out in the long term" in particular...
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Germany develops test for new virus in China
German researchers have developed the first diagnostic test for a new type of coronavirus that can spread from human to human.
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Chicago prepares for possible new viral illness
Health officials in Chicago are preparing for possible cases of a new viral illness that has killed nearly 20 people in China and sickened hundreds.
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Beijing on virus transparency, Kim health rumours
China reiterated on Tuesday it has been "open, transparent and responsible" in the cooperation with other countries in the epidemic prevention and control.
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Researchers in Sweden scramble to find vaccine
Swedish researchers continue to work towards a vaccine for the new coronavirus, but a professor at Stockholm's Karolinska Institutet warned it will not be ready until 2021.
Bloomberg
Vaccines Protect From Covid Variants: Johns Hopkins' Pekosz
Feb.19 -- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Professor and Virologist Andrew Pekosz says the U.S. has to get better at distributing the Covid-19 vaccines and expects pandemic-related restrictions to be relaxed by midyear. He...
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Government rejects criticism that downplayed outbreak of pig disease
FILE: August 26, 2005
1. Various of pig slaughtering workshop
August 20, 2007
2. Wide set-up shot of interview
3. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin), Jia Youling, Chief Veterinary Officer and Director General of the Bureau of Veterinary, Ministry...
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WHO on renaming flu, vaccine, claim on slow reax to outbreak
1. Pan of news conference
2. Mid of panel
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas Abraham, WHO spokesman:
"Now one of the issues that we're dealing with is the fact that at a practical level, it is hard for companies to switch from seasonal flu...
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China justifies silence about bird flu on pigs
Beijing, 26 August 2004
1. Wide of press conference room at State Council Information Office
2. Cutaway reporters
3. Mid shot of officials seated at head table
4. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Yu Kang Zhen, Director of National Veterinary...
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CHINA: ILLEGAL BLOOD SALES BRING AIDS RISK
Mandarin/Eng/Nat
Two years ago a medical researcher in China visited a village with a history of illegal blood selling, and found that 90 percent of blood samples he took tested positive for the H-I-V virus.
More than 10 people from that...
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ZAIRE: EBOLA VIRUS OUTBREAK: RED CROSS MOUNT INFORMATION CAMPAIGN
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Health experts trying to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus in Zaire, concentrated Saturday on containing panic caused by rumours that the virus is spreading.
The Red Cross is planning an information campaign in the...
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WHO news conference after two Shanghai men die from bird flu
1. Wide of news conference
2. Cutaway journalists
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael O'Leary, World Health Organisation's China representative:
"We know that there are recently these three cases of severe pneumonia caused by a novo, or a...
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Second case of swine flu on mainland, quarantined hotels, Changdu airport
Beijing
1. Wide of Home Inn hotel, where man identified only by his surname Lu, who tested positive for swine flu virus, allegedly stayed for three days before travelling to Shandong province, zoom in to police vehicle
2. Security and...
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New trial confirms future potential for HIV vaccine
Barcelona, January 24, 2013
1. Various of Doctor Josep Maria Gatell working in the laboratory with colleague Eloisa Yuste
2. Various of Gatell at microscope
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish), Dr Josep Maria Gatell, lead investigator, department...
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ONLY ON AP Rio sister city shows cleanup viable
As the 2016 Olympic Games approach, Rio de Janeiro's failure to clean up its waterways and world famous beaches have been put in the global spotlight.Thousands of litres of raw human sewage still pour into the ocean from the Games' host...
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Rio sister city shows sewage cleanup possible
As the 2016 Olympic Games approach, Rio de Janeiro's failure to clean up its waterways and world famous beaches have been put in the global spotlight.Thousands of litres of raw human sewage still pour into the ocean from the Games' host...
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Protest against quality of water in Olympic lake
With only two months to go before the Olympic Games, surfers, sailors, rowers and other Rio de Janeiro residents protested the pollution of the beaches, rivers and lagoons in their city.The protest was led by biologist Mario Moscatelli...