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Topic: Disease

Cochliomyia hominivorax, the New World screwworm fly, or screwworm for short, is a species of parasitic fly that is well known for the way in which its larvae (maggots) eat the living tissue. (Getty Images / Ramdan Fatoni)

The US could get screwed on screwworm

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Girl with measles on their body (Getty Images/StockPlanets)

You don't want to throw a measles party

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Doctors examine an x-ray of a patient who has tuberculosis (Najlah Feanny/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why we're still fighting tuberculosis

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Lady Gaga attends the Los Angeles premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures "Joker: Folie a Deux" at TCL Chinese Theatre on September 30, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage/Getty Images)

Lady Gaga battles herself in "Disease"

Nardos Haile
An environmental health specialist and entomologist for the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness displays a mosquito collected earlier in the day on August 25, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Climate change is expanding reach of EEE

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Patients line up for their weekly injections at a clinic for leprosy in Suva, Fiji, circa 1950. (FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Leprosy cases are rising in the US

Robert A. Schwartz - The Conversation
A measles vaccine is prepared on September 10, 2019 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Fiona Goodall/Getty Images)

Expect more measles outbreaks in 2024

Nicole Karlis
Close up macro of small sand fly gnat on green leaf (Getty Images/EzumeImages)

Flesh-eating parasite now endemic in US

Troy Farah
An Aedes Aegypti mosquito (Afp/getty Images)

Mosquitos bringing malaria north

Mary Katherine Wildeman - Grist
Bird Flu (Getty Images/Peter Garrard Beck)

Bird flu outbreak spills over to farms

Treana Mayer - The Conversation
A picture taken on December 6, 2016 shows chickens at a henhouse near Loon-Plage. France raised its risk level for avian flu to "high" after new cases of the "highly pathogenic" H5N8 strain of the virus were detected (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)

New bird flu outbreak spreads to mammals

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
An NHS staff prepares to administer the Covid-19 vaccination booster jab during a press tour at a vaccination center (Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

A new COVID-19 booster each fall?

Nicole Karlis
A child remains at an area affected by a drought on Earth Day in the southern outskirts of Tegucigalpa on April 22, 2016. (ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP via Getty Images)

Diarrheal disease and climate change

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
(Getty/Nicolas Asfouri)

A new use for dating apps: Chasing STDs

Darius Tahir - KFF Health News
Shorthair cat lying on front in bed looking bored (Getty Images/Kilito Chan)

How a cat parasite conquered the world

Troy Farah
Anti-Polio vaccine packages from the Cutter Laboratories. (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Why polio is making a comeback

Matthew Rozsa
Monkeypox virus (Getty Images/kontekbrothers)

How monkeypox spreads

Rebecca S.B. Fischer - The Conversation
Empty ampoules containing Bavarian Nordic's monkeypox vaccine (Imvanex / Jynneos) stand in a box on a table at Klinikum rechts der Isar. (Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Monkeypox may already be a pandemic

Nicole Karlis
Enteroviruses, a group of RNA-viruses of the Picornaviridae family including Echo-viruses, Coxsackie-viruses, Rhino-viruses, Polio-virus and other (Getty Images/Dr_Microbe)

Polio remerges as possible threat

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Malaria vaccine (Getty Images/Hailshadow)

Why the malaria vaccine took 35 years

Pratik Pawar - Undark
Sun beams shinning underwater on the tropical coral reef (Getty Images/Tunatura)

Mysterious viruses lurk in our oceans

Matthew Rozsa
Shadow of a tick on a leaf (Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Deer-tick virus could be next epidemic

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus on the brain (Getty Images)

Decoding brain diseases

Elizabeth Landau - Undark
A 5th instar Rhodnius pallescens (Kissing Bug) sitting on a hand, engorged after consuming the blood of nearby fauna in Panama. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer K Peterson, PhD / jennipeterson.com)

Lifting the curtain on Chagas disease

Emily Cataneo - Undark
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