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Reactions after US tries to weaken UN breastfeeding measure: Breastfeeding is already 'pretty damned hard'

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A resolution endorsing breastfeeding became the latest political lightning rod when the Trump administration threatened some countries with a withdrawal of aid if they didn't support a more watered-down version that caves to the infant formula industry.

Reactions after US tries to weaken UN breastfeeding measure: Breastfeeding is already 'pretty damned hard'
A doctor in protective clothing in the Ebola Training Academy in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Dec. 16, 2014.

A new Ebola vaccine may be 'up to 100 percent effective'

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A new Ebola vaccine may be 'up to 100 percent effective'
Three-month-old Jesus, photographed on Oct. 5 in Guarenas, Venezuela, was born with microcephaly

Zika’s million-dollar question: Where are the birth defects?

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Zika’s million-dollar question: Where are the birth defects?
A man washes his hands at a tap outside the Green Pharmacy at Area 8 in Abuja, Nigeria.

Nigeria's government stunned critics in acting quickly to make the country 'Ebola free'

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Nigeria's government stunned critics in acting quickly to make the country 'Ebola free'
A health worker, wearing head-to-toe protective gear, offers water to a woman with Ebola at a treatment center for infected persons at Kenema Government Hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone.

Why isn't the rest of the world helping fight the Ebola outbreak?

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Why isn't the rest of the world helping fight the Ebola outbreak?

Infographic: Tobacco's Shifting Burden

Health & Medicine

More and more people in developing countries are taking up smoking, while people in developed nations are quitting. This means tobacco-related deaths are shifting to low- and middle-income countries.

Infographic: Tobacco's Shifting Burden