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Vaccines

Author Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala poses for the camera in a dark blue outfit
Leaders
WTO head Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on vaccines: ‘We have to solve the health crisis if we want economic recovery’
A model of the coronavirus in red is displayed next to boxes of COVID-19 vaccines
Health & Medicine
China OKs first homegrown vaccine as COVID-19 surges globally
FBI Fallout Continues; Minnesota’s Measles Outbreak; Wheelchair Dancing
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Health
Why 21st-century anti-vaxxers have nothing on their 18th-century counterparts
A girl cries before receiving polio vaccine drops at a government children's hospital in Peshawar on March 3, 2015. Pakistan authorities have arrested hundreds of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children against polio.
Health
Facing a determined opposition, Pakistani officials tell parents to vaccinate their kids or go to jail
Innoculation always prompts anxiety. Here's how France dealt with it three centuries ago.
Culture
How France used fashion to spread the message to vaccinate
A measles outbreak is taking hold in the US
Medicine
A discredited British study helped create today’s anti-vaccine movement
A girl receives anti-measles vaccination drops in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Mass national vaccination campaigns against measles and polio are common in much of the developing world.
Health
A Nigerian writer mocks US disease concern, saying that Africa should screen Americans for measles
Ten-month old Lauren Durbin receives an injection for measles, mumps and rubella. Typically children do not receive the MMR vaccine until they are 12 months old.
Health
What Sweden can teach America about measles vaccinations
An electron microscope image of the string-like Ebola virus. Scientists at the NIH are working quickly on a drug and vaccine they hope will halt the spread of Ebola.
Medicine
Scientists are racing to perform human trials on a possible cure and vaccine for Ebola