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US Health Secretary @SecKennedy has changed the terms for the @CDCgov vaccine advisory committee, loosening vaccine expertise requirements as legal challenges mount over his reshaping of US immunisation policy.

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The official death toll from Venezuela’s twin earthquakes last week was 1,450 last Sunday, but over 50,000 people are still missing, and hopes of reaching them alive are fading fast.

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