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    Equatorial Guinea has quarantined more than 200 people and restricted movement after an unknown illness causing hemorrhagic fever killed at least eight people, Health Minister Mitoha Ondo’o Ayekaba said on Friday as the government races to test samples. “We are trying to quickly as possible rule out the known hemorrhagic fevers we know in the region such as Lassa or Ebola,” Ayekaba told Reuters…

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    Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/GettyWith new COVID variants and subvariants evolving faster and faster, each chipping away at the effectiveness of the leading vaccines, the hunt is on for a new kind of vaccine—one that works equally well on current and future forms of the novel coronavirus.Now researchers at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland think they’ve found a…

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    A 50-year-old single mother with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) has published a new book about living with the disease. And she used a eye-gazing technology to tell her story. On Saturday, Angela Parker-Brown, author of Writing With My Eyes: Staying Alive While Dying, hosted an official book launch on the front lawn of her home located on The Island, one of three historic Black communities…

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    A sexual educator from Kahnawake will co-host a sub-conference focusing on Indigenous young people’s sexual health at an upcoming United Nations world AIDS conference that will be held in downtown Montreal at the end of next month. Iehente Foote – who has been working on sexual-health issues for 13 years – said she and her co-organizers of the Indigenous Youth Networking Zone are excited for the…

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    A key federal advisory committee voted Tuesday to recommend emergency authorization of a new COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Maryland biotechnology company Novavax, making it the fourth inoculation against the disease that has killed over 1 million Americans to clear that hurdle in the United States.

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