Abc: Health Headlines

• Now a Roe advocate, woman raped by stepfather as a child tells her story in Harris campaign ad

  A 22-year-old woman who became an abortion rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather as a child tells her story in a new campaign ad for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris

• Man who sold fentanyl-laced pill liable for $5.8 million in death of young female customer

  A drug dealer who sold a fentanyl-laced pill is liable for $5.8 million in the death of the woman to whom he sold it

• An ancient African tree is providing a new 'superfood' but local harvesters are barely surviving

  The baobab tree is known as the “tree of life” and its fruit is feeding a growing global market for natural food and beauty products

• Global vaccine alliance GAVI to buy 500,000 doses of mpox vaccine

  The global vaccine alliance Gavi says it will buy 500,000 doses of vaccine against mpox to fight outbreaks of the disease in African countries

• Los Angeles area sees more dengue fever in people bitten by local mosquitoes

  The Los Angeles area is seeing more cases of people with dengue fever without traveling outside the United States, a year after the first such case was reported in California