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A person receives a smallpox vaccine to protect against monkeypox in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in August 2022

How the covid-19 pandemic helped tackle Ebola and monkeypox in 2022

27 December 2022

The covid-19 pandemic has improved communication between researchers and officials, and may have even prompted Uganda's first lockdown against Ebola

A sign warns people of measles

2019 saw the tragic and unnecessary return of measles in the US

18 December 2019

Once deemed a problem of the past in rich nations, the deadly infection has made a huge comeback, reports Chelsea Whyte

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