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In this Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, photo, a worker monitors display screens for infrared thermometers as they check travelers at Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan in southern China's Hubei province. The U.S. on Tuesday reported its first case of a new and potentially deadly virus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident who returned last week from the outbreak's epicenter was hospitalized near Seattle. (Chinatopix via AP)

Chinese city stops outbound flights, trains to fight virus

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

WHO sees tobacco drop among men, but vaping effects unclear

By MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Wednesday, June 19, 2019, Clara Massons holds her two years old son Jaume at her home in Barcelona, Spain. Outdated medical practices related to childbirth that continue to be used despite evidence they cause harm have come under increasing scrutiny in Europe. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Outdated, dangerous childbirth practices persist in Europe

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

This cover image released by Interscope Records shows &quot;Who,&quot; by The Who. (Interscope via AP)

Review: Townshend, Daltrey return to The Who’s rocking ways

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 30, 2018 file photo, a healthcare worker from the World Health Organization prepares vaccines to give to front line aid workers, in Mbandaka, Congo. The vaccine alliance GAVI has announced on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019 it would invest $178 million to create a global stockpile of about 500,000 Ebola vaccines, in a move health officials say could help prevent future outbreaks from spiraling out of control. GAVI is a public-private partnership that includes the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank, among others. (AP Photo/(AP Photo/Sam Mednick, file)

Vaccine group announces creation of Ebola vaccine stockpile

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019 photo, a memorial plaque for eleven concertgoers killed at a 1979 concert stands between Great American Ballpark and Heritage Bank Arena, in Cincinnati. Tragedy four decades ago linked the British rock band The Who to a small suburban city in Ohio. In recent years, members of the community and the band have bonded through a project to memorialize the three teens from Finneytown who were killed in a frantic stampede of people trying to get into The Who’s Dec. 3, 1979, Cincinnati concert. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Rock tragedy: Music superstars, small suburb forever linked

By DAN SEWELL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 1979 file photo, a security guard and an unidentified man look at an area where several people were killed as they were caught in a surging crowd entering Cincinnati's riverfront coliseum for a concert by the British rock band The Who. (AP Photo/Brian Horton, File)

AP Was There: Coverage of The Who concert where 11 died

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 16, 2019 file photo, health workers dressed in protective gear begin their shift at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo DRC. The World Health Organization said Friday Nov. 22, 2019, there has been “a very dangerous and alarming development” in efforts to end the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, warning that the eruption of violence may re-ignite the epidemic. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Rebel attacks in eastern Congo kill several Ebola responders

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO and CARA ANNA - Associated Press

UN: Measles cases spike in numerous outbreaks worldwide

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Smoke from the United Nations compound rises in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo, Monday, Nov. 25, 2019. Angry residents of this eastern Congo city burned the town hall and stormed the UN peacekeeping mission, known as MONUSCO, after Allied Democratic Forces rebels killed eight people and kidnapped nine overnight. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro)

Ebola responders on ‘lockdown’ after Congo city’s unrest

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Jan. 25 , 2002 file photo, a Congolese child is given a polio vaccination at a relief camp near Gisenyi, Rwanda. A report issued Friday Nov. 22, 2019, the World Health Organization said four African countries have reported more new cases of polio linked to the oral vaccine, than cases of polio contracted in the wild. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File)

More polio cases now caused by vaccine than by wild virus

Associated Press

Indian walk wearing masks to protect against pollution in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. Schools in India's capital have been shut for Thursday and Friday after air quality plunged to a severe category for the third consecutive day, enveloping New Delhi in a thick gray haze of noxious air. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Schools closed in New Delhi as air quality dips for 3rd day

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Jan. 25 , 2002 file photo, a Congolese child is given a polio vaccination at a relief camp near Gisenyi, Rwanda. The World Health Organization says Zambia has reported its first local case of polio since 1995 in a 2-year-old boy paralysed by a virus derived from the vaccine. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File)

UN says 1st local polio case found in Zambia since 1995

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FILE - In this Tuesday, July 16, 2019 file photo, health workers dressed in protective gear begin their shift at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo DRC. The World Health Organization says the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo still warrants being classified as a global emergency, even though the number of confirmed cases has slowed in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

UN says Ebola in Congo still qualifies as global emergency

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

In this Saturday, July 13, 2019 file photo, a child is vaccinated against Ebola in Beni, Congo. The World Health Organization says Monday, Sept. 23, 2019 Congo will start using a second experimental Ebola vaccine, as efforts to stop the spiraling outbreak are stalled and Doctors Without Borders criticizes vaccination efforts to date. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, file)

2nd Ebola vaccine to be used in Congo, as UN efforts slammed

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Philippines declares new polio outbreak after 19 years

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, June 14, 2019 file photo, people coming from Congo have their temperature measured to screen for symptoms of Ebola, at the Mpondwe border crossing with Congo, in western Uganda. Ugandan health authorities on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019 said a 9-year-old Congolese child has tested positive for Ebola in Uganda, after being identified and screened at the official Mpondwe border crossing, and was then taken to an isolation unit in the Ugandan border town of Bwera in Kasese district. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi, File)

Uganda: 9-year-old girl from Congo dies of Ebola

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO - Associated Press

UN: Ebola outbreak in Congo has killed nearly 2,000 people

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FILE - In this May 23 2019 file photo, Southern Connecticut State University professor Vincent Breslin holds a sample of water that contains possible microplastics at the North Haven Water Treatment Plant on Universal Drive. The World Health Organization says the levels of microplastics in drinking water don’t appear to be risky, but that more research is needed into their effects on the environment and health. A WHO report released Wednesday, Aug. 21, said the minuscule plastics are ubiquitous in the environment and have been found in both tap and bottled drinking water. (Bailey Wright/Record-Journal via AP)

UN: Don’t worry about drinking microplastics in water

By JAMEY KEATEN and MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

In this March 8, 2019 file photo, Rambo Islas, 8 months, is held by his mother Maria Islas, as he gets a vaccine shot administered by RN Nicole Ives at the Dallas County Health & Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas. A Texas Department of Health Services report shows the number of people in the state who chose to not immunize their children for non-medical reasons has jumped in the in 2018-2019 school year despite a record-breaking measles outbreak in the U.S. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File) **FILE**

Measles cases reported worldwide at 13-year high

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times