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Topic: disease control

Bird Flu (Getty Images/Peter Garrard Beck)

Preventing bird flu

Erica Cirino - The Revelator
A quarantine warning is displayed outside the horse racing track at Turf Paradise, Friday, Jan. 29, 2016, in Phoenix. Turf Paradise has euthanized one horse and is quarantining two others in the wake of a herpes outbreak that surfaced in New Mexico.(AP Photo/Matt York) (AP)

A brief history of quarantines

Leslie S. Leighton - The Conversation
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Risks of genetically modified mosquitoes

Natalie Kofler, Françoise Baylis, Graham Dellaire, Landon J Getz - The Conversation
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