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A boy cries as he receives a vaccine against yellow fever at a public health center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. The World Health Organization announced Tuesday that it now considers all of Sao Paulo state at risk for yellow fever, recommending that all international visitors to the state be vaccinated. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

WHO: All of Sao Paulo state at risk for yellow fever

By SARAH DiLORENZO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, July 21, 2016 file photo, residents of the Kisenso district receive yellow fever vaccines, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. The World Health Organization says that about 11 percent of medicines in developing countries are fake _ and potentially responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of children from diseases like malaria and pneumonia. In the U.N. health agency’s first attempt to assess the problem, experts reviewed 100 papers, involving more than 48,000 medicines. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

UN: About 11 percent of drugs in poor countries are fake

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Red Cross volunteers speak to women as they are busy cooking, whilst educating villagers about the plague outbreak, 30 miles west of Antananarivo, Madagascar, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. As plague cases rose last week in Madagascar's capital, many city dwellers panicked. They waited in long lines for antibiotics at pharmacies and reached through bus windows to buy masks from street vendors. Schools have been canceled, and public gatherings are banned. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe)

WHO: Plague outbreak in Madagascar is slowing

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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The Latest: Canada PM 1st thought Mugabe post was ‘bad joke’

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Ibrahima Soce Fall, Regional Emergency Director for Africa, of the World Health Organization, WHO, speaks during a press conference, about the Update on the plague situation in Madagascar, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

94 deaths from plague in Madagascar, UN health agency says

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In this photo taken Tuesday Oct. 10, 2017, a girl wears a face mask inside a hospital in the capital Antananarivo, Madagascar. A plague outbreak has brought some panic to the city dwellers with schools closed and public gatherings banned as the death toll still mounts in the Indian Ocean island nation. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe)

In Madagascar, plague outbreak now threatens largest cities

By EDWARD CARVER - Associated Press

FILE - In this photo from files taken on Wednesday, July. 12, 2017, people fill buckets with water from a well that is alleged to be contaminated water with the bacterium Vibrio cholera, on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen. The World Health Organization's emergencies chief, Dr. David Salama, said Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017 that the agency could have acted faster and sent more vaccines to fight a massive, deadly surge of cholera cases in war-battered Yemen this year. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

UN: More should have been done to fight cholera in Yemen

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

FILE - IN this Dec. 2, 2009, file photo, the Total Port Arthur refinery is shown in Port Arthur, Texas. Federal lawsuits against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency were filed claiming the agency has failed to correct Texas air pollution control permits with loopholes that make state enforcement rare. The suits filed Thursday, July 20, 2017, by the nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Integrity Project, target permits for the largest integrated petrochemical factory in the U.S., three refineries near the Houston Ship Channel including the largest petroleum refinery in the U.S. and a coal-fired power plant east of Dallas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Chemical industries tarnished by junk science

By Richard Berman

Roger Daltrey, lead singer for the English rock band The Who, left, poses with Adam Kirk and his daughter Sawyer McGhee, a cancer patient, in Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday, July 24, 2017. (AP photo/Dake Kang)

The Who’s Roger Daltrey visits teenage cancer patients

By TOM WITHERS - Associated Press

A boy rinses a bucket as he and others collect water from a well that is allegedly contaminated with cholera bacteria, on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, July 12, 2017. The U.N. health agency said Tuesday that plans to ship cholera vaccine to Yemen are likely to be shelved over security, access and logistical challenges in the war-torn country. Yemen's suspected cholera caseload has surged past 313,000, causing over 1,700 deaths in the world's largest outbreak. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

WHO: Yemen has worst Cholera outbreak in the world, will get worse with rainy season

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

UN, aid group: Cholera in Yemen to worsen in rainy season

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In this Friday, July 14, 2017, photo, Meg Dowaliby, along with her colleagues behind, wears Bose noise-canceling headphones, a perk of her job, as she works at her computer at Geniuslink in Seattle. Small and medium-sized companies offer enviable and sometimes quirky perks and benefits so they can attract and keep top workers. Many owners also provide the extras because they want staffers to have a humane, rewarding, even fun work environment. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Companies offer quirky perks like guitar lessons, tattoos

By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG - Associated Press

Roger Daltrey (left) and Pete Townshend, the two surviving original members of The Who, perform at The Theater at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, July 18, 2017. (Erica Bruce/Special to The Washington Times)

CONCERT REVIEW: The Who’s ‘Tommy and More’ tour features many of the hits

By Erica Bruce — Special to The Washington Times

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WHO: Drug-resistant gonorrhea on the rise as ‘smart’ bacteria outpaces treatments

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

FILE - A Wednesday, May 24, 2017 file photo showing Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), answering questions from journalists at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The new head of the World Health Organization said he is reviewing the agency's travel expenses, after an Associated Press story last month revealed the U.N. agency spends more on travel than on fighting AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

UN health agency’s new chief says he will check travel costs

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

WHO: Cholera death toll in Yemen rises to 1500

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, May 15, 2017 file photo, people are treated for suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The U.N. health agency and some major partners have agreed on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 to send 1 million doses of cholera vaccine to Yemen to help stanch a spiraling and increasingly deadly caseload in the impoverished country, which is already facing war and the risk of famine. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, file)

War-torn Yemen to get cholera vaccines as death toll mounts

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

2 polio outbreaks in Congo, World Health Organization says

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WHO: Maldives, Bhutan have eliminated measles

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