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3 vie for top WHO post in first election at UN health agency

AP Health News - Fetched: May 20th, 2017, 8:00am UTC

GENEVA (AP) -- A British physician, an Ethiopian former health minister and a Pakistani expert in non-communicable diseases are the three finalists vying for the top job at the World Health Organization in its first-ever election on Tuesday, aspiring to land a key U.N. post that confers great power to set worldwide medical priorities - and great responsibility as the worldamp;apos;s go-to person when emergencies like Ebola, Zika and SARS strike....

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