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Public health officials see promise in some of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plans to prevent chronic disease but despair at his vaccine conspiracy theories.

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EAST LONDON, EC - South Africans continue to lament the poor state of the public health system. As the head of the Eastern Cape Health Department, Dr. Zandisile Ntlube has witnessed this first-hand.

Public health officials have confirmed the first human case of H5N1 bird flu in Los Angeles County this year.A statement ...