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News Articles: Goats and Soda

A driver sits in the cab of a combine harvester during the summer harvest in a field of wheat in Varva, Ukraine. Ukraine accounts for more than 10% of the global wheat market. Russia's war threatens to disrupt the spring planting season.

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  • Global Health

Russia's war on Ukraine is dire for world hunger. But there are solutions

Both countries are huge suppliers of grains and other essential foods. And with widespread hunger and high food prices already, the war couldn't have come at a worse time.

March 06, 2022
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
Young women wait to get vaccinated by Namra, a 21-year-old health worker who's part of a national door-to-door vaccination effort in the informal Hindubasti settlement in Karachi.

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  • Global Health

Pakistan has a big idea: Send 13,000 teams led by women to vaccinate the hesitant

The vaccinators are going door-to-door in what the government is calling an unprecedented effort, toting coolers with a mix of COVID vaccine types.

March 05, 2022
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Abdul Sattar
Journalists report from Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 2. Media coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been massive.

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  • World

Not every war gets the same coverage as Russia's invasion — and that has consequences

Ongoing wars in, say, Yemen or Ethiopia get minimal attention compared with the media focus on the fighting in Ukraine. And there are ramifications on the humanitarian front.

March 04, 2022
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By:
  • Malaka Gharib
Security guards stand in front of the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, on Jan. 11, 2020, after the market had been closed following an outbreak of COVID-19 there. Two new studies document samples of SARS-CoV-2 from stalls where live animals were sold.

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  • Global Health

Striking new evidence points to Wuhan seafood market as the pandemic's origin point

Two studies point to a link between the animals at the seafood market and the spread of SARS-CoV-2 — foreshadowed by photos from 2014 of raccoon dogs and birds. A top virus sleuth gives the details.

March 04, 2022
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
A new report from UNICEF and the World Health Organization documents what it calls "aggressive" and "misleading" marketing of infant formula. There's special concern about efforts in low-resource countries

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  • Children's Health

Infant formula promoted in 'aggressive' and 'misleading' ways, says new global report

UNICEF and the World Health Organization issued the paper. It shows "that formula milk marketing remains unacceptably pervasive, misleading and aggressive," says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of WHO.

March 01, 2022
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By:
  • Fran Kritz

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  • Global Health

Coronavirus FAQ: I'm a one-way masker. What strategy will give me optimal protection?

Even as the CDC endorses the end of mask mandates in many areas, some folks still want to wear a mask in public places to reduce the risk of a coronavirus infection. Here's a guide to one-way masking.

February 25, 2022
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By:
  • Will Stone
A health worker in Mexico City prepares a Sputnik V dose during a mass vaccination effort against COVID-19. A new study in Mexico shows that non-mRNA vaccines like the Russian version can be as effective as mRNA vaccines like Pfizer if the patient has previously been infected with SARS-CoV-2.

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  • Global Health

Looks like non-mRNA vaccines can be as good as Pfizer and Moderna in certain scenarios

The consensus has been that Pfizer and Moderna are most protective. But a study looking at 5 vaccines — including Russia's Sputnik V and two Chinese types — offers an unexpected finding.

February 24, 2022
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By:
  • Charles Schmidt
A bee sucks nectar from a flower in Berlin, Germany. Bee populations are in decline in industrialized nations across the globe.

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  • Environment

The world's insect population is in decline — and that's bad news for humans

Environmental writer Oliver Milman says habitat loss, pesticides and climate change are killing off insects worldwide, which, in turn, threatens humans. His new book is The Insect Crisis.

February 24, 2022
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By:
  • Dave Davies
Staff volunteers queue to receive a fourth dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Sheba Medical Center in Israel on Dec. 27, 2021, as the hospital conducted a trial of a fourth jab of the vaccine.

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  • Global Health

Who might benefit from a 4th shot — and who might not

Some countries are moving ahead with plans to offer a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine. But studies are raising questions about the potential advantages of this extra booster.

February 23, 2022
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
Dr. Paul Farmer, photographed in 2017 at a screening of a film about his life's work, <em>Bending the Arc.</em>

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  • Global Health

Global health champion Dr. Paul Farmer has died

Known for his efforts to improve global health and as the founder of the nonprofit health organization Partners in Health, Farmer died in Rwanda at age 62.

February 22, 2022
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By:
  • Malaka Gharib and
  • Nurith Aizenman
Dr. Paul Farmer (right) and Dr. Sriram Shamasunder on the Butaro hospital campus in Rwanda on Feb. 17. Farmer died on Feb. 21.

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  • Opinion

With love and tears: My first and last memories of Dr. Paul Farmer

Dr. Sriram Shamasunder just spent a week in Rwanda at the university co-founded by Paul Farmer — and witnessed the passion and compassion of this global health champion days before his untimely death.

February 22, 2022
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By:
  • Sriram Shamasunder
A <em>Guiera senegalensis</em> shrub grows in an agricultural test plot outside Thiès, Senegal. The shrubs used to be considered a threat to other crops. Now American and Senegalese researchers are conducting studies to see if the shrubs in fact are beneficial.

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  • Global Health

Farmers in Senegal learn to respect a scruffy shrub that gets no respect

For decades, they've been told to rip out the Guiera senegalensis shrub. But now there's a new philosophy: The scrappy green plant could be the key to a better harvest.

February 20, 2022
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By:
  • Nick Roll
Kusemererwa Jonathan Henry, Joel Joseph (left and middle) and a friend pose for a photo on their way home from school. During the lockdown, they missed spending time in school together and would walk to visit each other.

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  • Education

PHOTOS: Teen dreams and disappointments after the world's longest COVID school closure

Schools in Uganda were shut nearly 2 years due to the pandemic. Now they're open again, although millions of kids won't go back. We speak to 6 teens about their plans and hopes.

February 19, 2022
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By:
  • Halima Athumani and
  • Photos by Esther Ruth Mbabazi
A rapid antigen test shows a positive test result for COVID-19.

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  • Global Health

Coronavirus FAQ: Is it a good idea to get COVID before I'm over 60 and at higher risk?

Say you're in your 50s. Maybe you're thinking, it's a good idea to catch SARS-CoV-2 now before you hit your 60s and would be at higher risk of severe illness? Or is that a very bad idea?

February 18, 2022
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By:
  • Sheila Eldred and
  • Fran Kritz
"Small," as he was widely known, played a homemade <em>kologo </em>(a 2-string lute)— with dog tags attached to the end for rattles.

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  • Music

Remembering 'Small,' the funeral singer who made joyful music in the face of death

The Ghanaian singer would vocalize and dance all night long to send off the departed. On the verge of his long awaited first trip to perform abroad, he has died, reportedly of COVID.

February 17, 2022
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By:
  • Ian Brennan
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