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Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, June 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
June 7, 2023, 9:36 pm
Pope Francis emerges from 3-hour abdominal surgery without complications
86-year-old pontiff has hernia repaired two years after part of his colon was removed
By Nicole Winfield and Maria Cheng
Health workers wearing personal protective equipment take part in a mock drill to check preparations of COVID-19 facilities at a hospital in Mumbai on April 10, 2023. (Punit PARANJPE / AFP)
May 5, 2023, 6:02 pm
COVID no longer a global emergency, WHO says, but pandemic not over
World body downgrades health crisis more than three years after first declaring it, notes most countries have returned to pre-pandemic footing, but warns that threat remains
By Maria Cheng and Jamey Keaten
Illustrative. An child receives an oral polio vaccine, August 18, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)
August 21, 2022, 8:44 pm
Polio spread in Israel, US, UK highlights extremely rare risk of oral vaccine
Unlikely phenomenon becomes more glaring as world comes closer to wiping out naturally concurring disease, but now faces more cases caused by oral immunization
By Maria Cheng
File: A vial of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, on a table at an inoculation station next to Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/ Rogelio V. Solis)
August 15, 2022, 7:58 pm
UK regulator is first to OK Moderna’s updated Omicron-protection COVID booster
Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency says it gave green light to Moderna’s combo ‘bivalent’ vaccine, which will be used as an adult booster shot targeting Omicron variant
By Maria Cheng
This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)
July 23, 2022, 6:07 pm
UN health agency declares monkeypox a global emergency
WHO says outbreak seen in more than 70 countries is an ‘extraordinary event’; declaration may encourage further investment in treating once-rare disease
By Maria Cheng
This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. A leading doctor who chairs a World Health Organization expert group described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as 'a random event' that might be explained by risky sexual behavior at two recent mass events in Europe. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/ CDC via AP, File)
May 23, 2022, 7:05 pm
Rare monkeypox outbreak likely spread by sex at 2 raves in Europe, expert says
Former head of WHO’s emergencies department says outbreak is a ‘random event’ caused by parties in Spain and Belgium
By Maria Cheng
This 1997 image provided by the CDC during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly Zaire, and depicts the dorsal surfaces of the hands of a monkeypox case patient, who was displaying the appearance of the characteristic rash during its recuperative stage. (CDC via AP)
May 20, 2022, 10:59 pm
African scientists baffled by unusual spread of monkeypox cases in Europe, US
European officials exploring whether disease is being sexually transmitted, something not seen before in Africa where most people are infected by contact with rats and squirrels
By Maria Cheng
This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a monkeypox virion, obtained from a sample associated with a 2003 outbreak. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP)
May 20, 2022, 3:56 am
What is monkeypox and where is it spreading?
Disease that has popped up in Europe and US can be fatal for up to one in 10 people and is thought to be more severe in children
By Maria Cheng
A relative of a person who died of COVID-19 is consoled by another during cremation in Jammu, India, on April 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)
May 6, 2022, 12:41 am
Doubling official total, WHO reports nearly 15 million deaths associated with COVID
Current official death toll is over 6 million; US surpasses 1 million deaths
By Maria Cheng
Maya Goode, a COVID-19 technician, performs a test on Jessica Sanchez outside Asthenis Pharmacy in Providence, Rhode Island, December 7, 2021. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
January 12, 2022, 12:24 am
Experts believe Omicron may be headed for rapid drop in US, Britain
University of Washington scientist predicts daily cases in US to peak at 1.2 million by January 19, and then quickly fall ‘because everybody who could be infected will be infected’
By Maria Cheng and Carla K. Johnson
Healthcare workers take samples at a drive through complex for coronavirus testing, in Modi'in, on November 10, 2021 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
November 26, 2021, 4:42 pm
Omicron is the most mutated version of virus yet, but is it the most dangerous?
Little is yet known of new COVID strain, though its 30-plus mutations could speed its spread. But will it cause more serious disease, and can it get past vaccines?
By Maria Cheng
This undated image provided by Merck shows its new antiviral medication against COVID-19. (Merck via AP)
November 4, 2021, 6:34 pm
UK authorizes first pill shown to treat COVID
Health secretary hails approval of Merck’s molnupiravir as a ‘historic day,’ says Britain looking to start national study on treatment ‘as soon as possible’
By MATTHEW PERRONE and Maria Cheng
Workers in protective gear lower a coffin of a COVID-19 victim to a grave for burial at the Cipenjo Cemetery in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, July 14, 2021. (Achmad Ibrahim/AP)
July 14, 2021, 11:19 pm
COVID on the rise again globally, with 55,000 deaths last week
World Health Organization says fatalities climbed for the first time after nine weeks of decline; infections up by 10%
By Heather Hollingsworth and Maria Cheng
A doctor fills a syringe with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, file)
July 13, 2021, 6:31 am
WHO calls on rich countries to donate vaccines before starting on booster shots
With most of world yet to receive a single COVID shot, officials call on vaccine makers and countries with high inoculation rates to show more social solidarity
By Maria Cheng
People rest after being vaccinated with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in a mass vaccination site at the Brabanthal event center in Heverlee, Belgium, March 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
March 18, 2021, 8:38 pm
EU agency says AstraZeneca vaccine safe, paving way for resumption of shots
After several European countries suspend use, drug regulator says benefits of UK-developed inoculations outweigh risk of blood clots
By Maria Cheng and Frank Jordans
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