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FDA announced the second webinar featuring experts from the public and private sector to discuss fostering, supporting, and strengthening food safety cultures to help ensure the safe production of food, and the role of science-based metrics in assessing their effectiveness.

At least 760 teachers and school staff in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, called out sick Wednesday to protest the alarming spread of COVID-19 and the district’s refusal to offer virtual learning.

About 395 cases of Circulating Mutant Poliovirus Type 2 (cMPV2) have been reported across 27 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Arkansas Children's Hospital is seeing an increase in the number of COVID cases for kids as cases reach record highs and students head back to school.

There has never been a time in history with as much going on in food safety and food law. Scott Haskell lists over 20 issues that industry and regulators need to look out for in 2022. How many of these directly relate to your organization?

A symposium held Friday, Nov. 12, celebrated graduate students’ contributions to the COVID-19 response at Emory.

“For a long time, I was skeptical about vaccinating my children against polio, but now I know better after one of my children work up one morning with weakness of his limbs due to polio says Baba Ali, a resident of Dawakin Kudu LGA in Kano State | Pulselive Kenya

English News and Press Release on Nigeria about Health and Epidemic; published on 10 Aug 2021 by WHO

The growing concern being expressed by Nigerians over the outbreak of Vaccine Derived Poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in 13 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) should not be treated lightly. Much as it seemed to have taken the country by surprise, the outbreak of this polio variant is outrightly unfortunate considering the huge funds expended on polio eradication. According to health professionals, this outbreak is worrisome as it threatens Nigeria’s wild polio virus-f...

• COVID-19 stimulus package has been helpful, says Osinbajo • ‘$51b committed to fight pandemic in Nigeria, others’ Barely one year after Nigeria was certified Wild Polio Virus (WPV) free, the government has alerted on the outbreak of Circulating Vaccine-derived Poliovirus Type 2 (cVDPV2) in 13 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It therefore stressed the need for the country to jealously guard its WPV-free status and stop the cVDPV2 transmission in communities. It also anno...