Polio has been officially declared eradicated from the African continent. The independent Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for Polio Eradication officially declared on Tuesday that the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region is free of wild poliovirus. This marks the eradication of the second virus from the face of the
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As the novel coronavirus COVID-19 spreads across the world — with more than 200,000 cases and 8,000 deaths globally — health and government officials are scrambling to get a handle on what the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared a pandemic. But one method health experts and Centers for Disease Control and
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