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Newscaster: We interrupt our regular scheduled news program to bring you live up-to-date coverage on the civil unrest in the newly formed country of Karnak, where our man Stan Fielding is stationed. Stan . . . Stan: This is Stan Fielding reporting li
WHO Urges Massive Investment in Health Programs 世界卫生组织迫切要求大规模的健康计划投资 Leading health and science experts say improving health is essential for reducing poverty a
In Liberia, an Ebola treatment center fully funded and constructed by China has just been completed. Its the first medical aid center built and managed by a foreign country in the disease affected areas. It was designed using a Chinese medical standa
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Major Progress in Health Through Technology From VOA Learning English, this is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in Special English. Im Bob Doughty. And Im Faith Lapidus. Today, we tell about a woman who can use signals from her brain to move
Fear had gripped the nation, indeed the whole world. An unknown deadly virus had infected thousands of people and was spreading quickly. There was no cure and the number of cases was rising every day. In the media, SARS seemed to be the topic of ever
The United Nations reports significant progress has been made in providing assistance to hundreds of thousands of quake victims in Haiti. A senior U.N. official says the relief operation is being scaled up on all levels, with shelter topping the list
A new report from UNAIDS says significant progress is being made against HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. The findings are contained in the 2010 report on the global AIDS epidemic. The latest report shows the number of newly infected people in sub-Sah
Abandoned HIV positive babies Sifiso, left, and Rose, right, at the Cotlands home in Johannesburg, South Africa, 9 Jul 2002 Around 70,000 babies are born with HIV in South Africa every year. It is one of the main contributors to the country's high in
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The H1N1 flu virus that has spread around the world is especially risky for pregnant women. If they become infected, especially after the first three months of pregnancy, they can get very sick or even
The World Health Organization says it has reached a limit in its fight against diseases and disasters. Director-General Margaret Chan says the agency is overextended and faces serious funding shortfalls. Dr. Chan says the WHO is no longer operating a
Experts: Zika Could Infect 93 Million in Americas 专家称Zika病毒或每年感染9300万美洲人 Health experts have a new warning about Zika virus. They say the virus will keep spreading before the Zika epidemic finally ends. 健康专家有一个
The foreign ministers of Britain and France are heading to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda to try to stave off a further humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo where tens of thousands are fleeing advancing rebel forces, despite a cease-fir
Health officials say a new, affordable vaccine launched this week in Burkina Faso could eliminate recurring meningitis-A epidemics that have plagued the continent for the past century. Health workers say Meningococcal-A epidemics that hit sub-Saharan
NewTeststoQuicklyDiagnoseSleepingSickness New diagnostic tools are being tested that would quickly indicate whether a person has African sleeping sickness. Current methods of diagnosis are slow and cumbersome and delay life-saving treatment. Health o
Board Game Helps Fight Real World Ebola 棋盘游戏为对抗埃博拉筹集资金 LOS ANGELES As doctors and scientists continue to try and contain the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and find a cure, a global community of board gamers is also helping
HRW: Ebola Outbreak Tests Human Rights 西非埃博拉疫情考验人权 West African governments are being urged to ensure human rights are respected as they battle the ongoing Ebola outbreak. Human Rights Watch says the response to the crisis has b
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has laid out a framework for China-Africa cooperation in a speech at the headquarters of the African Union. Speaking on Monday in Addis Ababa, Premier Li proposed four principles for deepening cooperation and underlined six
Tuberculosis infects nearly ten million people each year and kills nearly two million. It is primarily a lung disease that spreads easily among people with weakened immune systems. Sub-Saharan Africa is still the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS disaster, b
In Congo, Ebola claims the lives of 60 percent of those who get the virus. The disease is so devastating, even those who survive it are shunned. Really makes it frightening is the high mortality rate, the very severe symptoms that people experience.
Background: 据报道南美洲亚马逊的土著部落被传染上了猪流感病毒。位于巴西及委内瑞拉交界处的 Yanomami (亚诺玛米部落)里,有七名土著人已经不幸死于猪流感,而且有可能数百名其他土著人也