External Affairs

Boy receives polio vaccination drops during a house-to-house vaccination campaign in Sanaa

Malawi Detects Polio, First Wild Case in Africa in Over 5 Years

Reuters 18/02/2022

Laboratory analysis showed the strain detected in Malawi was...

FILE PHOTO: Children walk over a polluted area as they collect plastic materials in Dhaka

‘Pollution Causing More Deaths Than COVID, Action Needed’

Emma Farge 18/02/2022

A report by UN Special Rapporteur David Boyd seeks...

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How FDA Warnings on Antidepressants Backfired

Stephen Soumerai and Ross Koppel 18/02/2022

A growing body of research has found that these...

FILE PHOTO: Satellite view of the eruption of an underwater volcano off Tonga

Tonga Eruption Last Month Was Accompanied by Record-Breaking Lightning Storm

Manas Sharma and Simon Scarr 16/02/2022

There were a total of almost 590,000 lightning strikes...

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Lessons From the DRC’s 10th Ebola Epidemic: ‘The People May Know Best’

Ben Radley, Bienvenu Mukungilwa and Christoph Vogel 14/02/2022

The large public health apparatus assembled to fight Ebola...

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French HIV Discoverer Luc Montagnier Dies at 89

Montagnier more recently spread false claims about the novel...

Employees operate a filling machine inside a lab at the Serum Institute of India, in Pune

10 Billion COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Later, What’s India’s Contribution?

Neeta Sanghi 10/02/2022

India could have done more to shoulder the world’s...