Polio

The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells were unlawfully used to make groundbreaking discoveries in medicine and science, have reached a private settlement deal with the biotech company, Thermo Fisher Scientific. 

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Health officials are looking into the cases of four people who became paralyzed in northwestern Haiti while recovering from cholera.

LUANDA, Angola — The Angolan capital’s war-ravaged infrastructure is complicating the fight against polio, which has re-emerged here spread to neighbouring countries after experts thought it had been defeated, health experts said Monday.