A woman receives the rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccine at a clinical trial in Conakry, Guinea. The vaccine appears effective after only one shot. Cellou Binani/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Global Health : Shots - Health News Global health
Stories About
Global Health
Friday
Friday
Slum dwellers near Calcutta get their water from a municipal pipe. Water coming out of the tap on the left is for bathing and so is untreated. The blue Zimba chlorinator is hooked up to the tap on the right, which is used for drinking water. Courtesy of Suprio Das/Zimba hide caption
Friday
A family receives treatment for cholera at a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in October 2011, a year after the overwhelming outbreak began. Ramon Espinosa/AP hide caption
Russia has strict rules on dispensing painkillers. Family members say some cancer patients killed themselves because they could not obtain the medicine and the pain was too great. Andy Baker/Ikon Images/Getty Images hide caption
Tough Painkiller Rules Push Some Russian Cancer Patients To Suicide
Thursday
A woman in Yatta, Kenya, explains how to make clean water using a car battery and just the right mixture of salt and water. Jane Mauser/Courtesy of MSR hide caption
Tuesday
Health workers wash their hands after taking a blood sample from a child to test for the Ebola virus. On Tuesday, the workers tested people in the village outside Monrovia where a 17-year-old boy died of the disease over the weekend. Abbas Dulleh/AP hide caption
Friday
Having many different species of animals around may reduce people's risk of catching some diseases. Anne Wilson/Ikon Images/Corbis hide caption
Tuesday
An Aka man smokes hemp while hunting in the Central African Republic. Veronique Durruty/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images hide caption
Monday
The outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome is slowing down in South Korea, but people were still wearing surgical masks around Seoul on Monday. Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Friday
A police officer guards the home of a family under a 21-day Ebola quarantine in Freetown, Sierra Leone, back in March. Michael Duff/AP hide caption
Thursday
Pills are prepared for HIV/AIDS patients at a caregiving facility in Thailand. A new report on global health spending shows HIV/AIDS is the top priority. Taylor Weidman/Getty Images hide caption
Monday
In front of the emergency room at the Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, medical workers care for a man suspected of having the Middle Respiratory syndrome on Monday. Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Primal posture: Ubong tribesmen in Borneo (right) display the perfect J-shaped spines. A woman in Burkina Faso (left) holds her baby so that his spine stays straight. The center image shows the S-shaped spine drawn in a modern anatomy book (Fig. I) and the J-shaped spine (Fig. II) drawn in the 1897 anatomy book Traite d'Anatomie Humaine. Courtesy of Esther Gokhale and Ian Mackenzie/Nomads of the Dawn hide caption
Lost Posture: Why Some Indigenous Cultures May Not Have Back Pain
Thursday
Patient one: A businessman brought the Middle East respiratory syndrome to South Korea in early May. Since then, he has likely spread the virus to more than 20 other people. Several of those have passed the virus onto others. Maia Majumder/Health Map hide caption
Viral Superspreader? How One Man Triggered A Deadly MERS Outbreak
Thursday
Health workers collect the body of a cholera victim in Petionville, Haiti, February 2011. The cholera outbreak in Haiti began in October 2010. Nearly 9,000 people have died. David Gilkey/NPR hide caption