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U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. travelled to West Texas on Sunday after a second unvaccinated school-aged child died from a measles-related illness.Ahead of a "Make America Healthy Again" tour across the southwestern United States, Kennedy said in a social media post that he was in Gaines County to comfort families who had to bury two young children who have died. Seminole, Texas, is the epicentre of a measles outbreak that started in late January and continues to swell, with nearly 500 cases in the state alone.He said he was also working with Texas health officials to "control the measles outbreak."The child, who did not have underlying health conditions, died on Thursday from "what the child's doctors described as measles pulmonary failure," the Texas Department of State Heal...

On a weekday at the world's largest refugee camp, dozens of women and men form two surging queues, pushing to reach the front of the line to get their official aid registration cards processed.The crowd is made of refugees from neighbouring Myanmar's persecuted Muslim minority Rohingya community, recently arrived at the sprawling complex housing more than a million people in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh."They are all Rohingya who have arrived here in the last month. They need more support," said Abu Osman, a program manager at an NGO called Agrajattra, which provides vaccinations and maternal, mental and community health services to thousands in the camp. "But now the support has stopped, so this is very challenging." He is speaking about the recent executive order from U.S. President Donald Tr...

He was known as "the man with the golden arm."James Harrison, who according to the Australian Red Cross was the world's most prolific blood and plasma donor, has died at age 88.Harrison's plasma contained the rare antibody Anti-D, also known as Rhesus D antibody, which is used to make the medication given to mothers whose blood is at risk of attacking their fetuses. He donated plasma 1,173 times and is credited with saving 2.4 million Australian babies, according to the Red Cross.The former Guinness World Record holder died in his sleep on Feb. 17."James was a humanitarian at heart, but also very funny," said his daughter, Tracey Mellowship, in a statement."In his last years, he was immensely proud to become a great-grandfather to two beautiful grandchildren, Trey and Addison. As an Anti-D...