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Topic: epidemics

Cholera infected patients receive treatment in the cholera isolation centre at the refugee camps of western Sudan, in Tawila city in Darfur, on August 14, 2025. (AFP/Getty Images)

Trump cuts exacerbated cholera epidemic

Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Brett Murphy - ProPublica
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
Monkeypox virus (Getty Images/kontekbrothers)

When monkeypox comes to rural areas

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez - KFF Health News
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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
Paramedics carry a stretcher with a patient out of an ambulance at Brooklyn Hospital Center on March 27, 2020 in New York City. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Monkeypox gives paramedics COVID déjà vu

Bob Hennelly
At the University of Minnesota's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, the door to the lab where the first step is taken in the testing of samples for the monkeypox virus has a warning sign to let others know not to enter. (JUDY GRIESEDIECK/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Monkeypox hits U.S. shores

Matthew Rozsa
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Deforestation helps virus spread

Amy Y. Vittor, Gabriel Zorello Laporta, Maria Anice Mureb Sallum - The Conversation
A nurse applies a vaccine to her patient (Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Getty Images)

On coronavirus and vaccine skeptics

Kristin Lunz Trujillo, Matt Motta - The Conversation
Still life of a face mask on red background (Getty Images)

How scammers are exploiting COVID-19

Stacey Wood, Yaniv Hanoch, Marian Liu, David Hengerer
President Bush signs the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 in the Oval Office after the House passed the $700 billion financial bailout bill at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. | US President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Oval Office about the widening coronavirus crisis on March 11, 2020 in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak/Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

Late capitalism primed us for pandemic

Bob Hennelly
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross (Dominik Bindl/Getty Images)

Sec. Ross: Coronavirus good for economy

Matthew Rozsa
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London patient: Don’t believe the hype

Eric Sawyer
(Associated Press)

Beware antibiotic-resistant infections

Gerry Wright - The Conversation
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