Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Turning a corner, after decades of health warnings, cigarette sales have fallen sharply in the United States and Europe, but multinational tobacco corporations are targeting huge new markets in

Why southern China is a hotbed for disease development

Aug 11th, 2016 6m 43s

Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Next: As we have seen with recent pandemics, emerging diseases like Zika and Ebola can cross continents and oceans with uncontrolled speed.Scientists are identifying areas where new infectious disea

Brazil grapples with Zika health emergency as Carnival begins

Feb 5th, 2016 5m 51s

Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: U.S. health officials put out new guidance today about the Zika virus. For the first time, they recommended that men who have traveled to an area with Zika should use condoms if they have sex with

As epidemic escalates, can U.S. aid for Ebola be deployed quickly enough?

Sep 16th, 2014 10m 21s

Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSCuba pledges 165 healthcare workers to combat Ebola outbreak U.S. offers support to fragile, West African health systems to combat Ebola Why Ebola is proving so hard to contain JUDY WOODRUFF: Let’s

Obama pledges money and military personnel to nations struck by Ebola

Sep 16th, 2014 3m 32s

We're sorry, the rights for this video have expired. | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSCuba pledges 165 healthcare workers to combat Ebola outbreak U.S. offers support to fragile, West African health systems to combat Ebola Why Ebola is proving

U.S. offers support to fragile, West African health systems to combat Ebola

Sep 9th, 2014 9m 43s

Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSThird U.S. doctor with Ebola lands in Nebraska Why Ebola is proving so hard to contain The world is ‘losing the battle’ to contain Ebola, health official warns JUDY WOODRUFF: In West Africa, doctors

News Wrap: Head of African terror group, Al Shabaab is dead

Sep 6th, 2014 4m 35s

We're sorry, the rights for this video have expired. | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog conceded that its progress investigating Iran’s nuclear program has hit a wall. The latest confidential report by the Internati

One family’s quest to unite orphaned Chinese girls with a happy home

Sep 2nd, 2014 9m 30s

Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSRwanda’s government moves to close orphanages Meet Agnes: orphan, student, survivor of sexual violence in Sierra Leone Detention of Americans in Haiti renews adoption concerns JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally

Why Ebola is proving so hard to contain

Sep 2nd, 2014 7m 23s

Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSA third American reportedly infected with Ebola How did the West Africa Ebola epidemic get out of control so fast? Ebola outbreak started with funeral in Guinea, report finds JEFFREY BROWN: The dire

Ebola’s spread hastens preparations for vaccine testing

Aug 28th, 2014 5m 37s

Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSCDC director: ‘Ebola will get worse before it gets better’ American doctor speaks out about his Ebola recovery Doctors Without Borders: Ebola efforts need more people in the fieldDoctors Without Bor

WHO announces $490 million plan for fighting Ebola

Aug 28th, 2014 2m 48s

We're sorry, the rights for this video have expired. | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSCDC director: ‘Ebola will get worse before it gets better’ American doctor speaks out about his Ebola recovery Doctors Without Borders: Ebola efforts need mo

Ebola tensions ease in quarantined Liberia, but government mistrust lingers

Aug 24th, 2014 3m 30s

Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: As we reported yesterday there are now more than 2600 confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola and more than 1400 deaths resulting from the virus.All of the cases had originated from West Africa.

Persistence is key to wiping out polio outbreaks in fragile nations

May 6th, 2014 8m 52s

Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Public health officials around the world are sounding the alarm this week about the return of polio. It’s a big shift from just two years ago, when some experts thought they were on the verge of erad

News Wrap: UN says polio outbreak is global emergency

May 5th, 2014 5m 5s

We're sorry, the rights for this video have expired. | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Fresh fighting erupted in Ukraine today in a key city seized by separatists who want to join Russia. That followed a weekend of violent confrontations.We hav

Unprecedented Ebola outbreak crosses borders in West Africa

Apr 8th, 2014 6m 32s

Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Several countries in West Africa are now coping with the worst outbreak of the Ebola virus in years. The World Health Organization describes it as one of the most challenging episodes of the disea

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