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Meningitis B vaccine

Meningitis B vaccines may fight the rise of super-gonorrhoea

10 July 2017

Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea has spread worldwide. Now there’s hope that existing vaccines for meningitis could control gonorrhoea before it becomes unbeatable
A missile blasts off again the background of green hills

North Korean missiles could soon reach the US. Can we stop them?

5 July 2017

Kim Jong-un’s regime has tested a missile that could eventually hit the continental US with Hiroshima-sized nuclear weapons. Talks, war or sanctions are the only ways forward

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