Pandemic
World dangerously unprepared for next pandemic: monitor
Gro Harlem Brundtland, GPMB co-chair and a former WHO chief, stressed during the virtual launch of the report Monday that the board had warned a year ago that...
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SA to welcome first WHO member who will help in fight against COVID-19
A team of more than 40 international health experts assembled by the WHO are due to start working in south Africa soon where they'll be guiding government and professionals through the pandemic.
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China downplays swine flu pandemic concerns
China's foreign ministry has downplayed concerns raised by a US science journal claiming a swine flu there has pandemic potential.
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New swine flu virus found in China has pandemic potential - US science journal
Named G4, it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in 2009, say the authors of the study.
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Lessons from Sierra Leone’s Ebola pandemic's impact of school closures on girls
What the consequences of school closures during Africa's 'longest, largest and deadliest' Ebola outbreak can teach the continent.
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What’s the difference between pandemic, epidemic and outbreak?
It's a matter of scale, writes Rebecca SB Fischer.
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Are the global interventions enough to prevent coronavirus pandemic?
Cheryl Cohen, associate professor in epidemiology at Wits University, said the risks that could lead to the coronavirus being a pandemic included the number of people infected.
