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Title: Q&A on hepatitis in children
Description: In recent weeks, a number of cases of severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children have been reported. These have been detected in several countries including the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Spain and the United States of America.
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Title: World Hand Hygiene Day – unite to promote hand cleaning at the core of disease prevention
Description: In our daily lives, we do so much with our hands. They are tools for creativity and for expressing ourselves, and a means for providing care and doing good. But hands can also be centres for germs and can easily spread infectious diseases to others – including vulnerable patients being treated in health facilities.
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Title: Health workers leading by example this World Hand Hygiene Day
Description: We spoke to 2 nurses about the simple, but critically important practice of cleaning hands and found out why hand hygiene is so important in the health-care environment.
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Title: 14.9 million excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021
Description: New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic (described as “excess mortality”) between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 was approximately 14.9 million (range 13.3 million to 16.6 million).
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Title: World Hand Hygiene Day – unite to promote hand cleaning at the core of disease prevention
Description: In our daily lives, we do so much with our hands. They are tools for creativity and for expressing ourselves, and a means for providing care and doing good. But hands can also be centres for germs and can easily spread infectious diseases to others – including vulnerable patients being treated in health facilities.
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Title: WHO and Armenia agree on health priorities during Regional Director’s visit
Description: WHO Regional Director for Europe, Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, signed a biennial collaborative agreement (BCA) and presented a special WHO award to health workers in Armenia during a recent country visit.