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Topic: infectious diseases

A northern red-backed vole is seen in this undated photo. Small mammals, especially northern red-backed voles, have been found to be infected with Alaskapox, a disease that was not identified until 2015. (Photo by Jim Dau/Provided by Alaska Department of Fish and Game)

First confirmed Alaskapox death reported

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty Images)

Bird flu driving up turkey prices

Yuko Sato - The Conversation
DNA molecule (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Aidan Burn
Portrait of Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization (Getty Images/mikroman6)

Louis Pasteur's work still saves lives

Rodney E. Rohde - The Conversation
Bird Flu (Getty Images/Peter Garrard Beck)

Preventing bird flu

Erica Cirino - The Revelator
People work at the construction site of Chahe grand bridge of the Kunming-Chuxiong expressway in southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Yang Zongyou via Getty Images)

On climate change & infectious diseases

Abrahm Lustgarten - ProPublica
In this photo provided by the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, taken March 11, 2015 in the intensive care unit at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, physical therapist Katie Kellner helps patient Terry Culler do some exercises and briefly stand despite being hooked to a ventilator. There's increasing evidence that mild exercise may have its place even for the sickest ICU patients, and new animal research suggests it may target both muscles and lungs. (AP Photo/Warren Cameron Dennis III, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) (AP)

How CPAPs spread the coronavirus

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
A Guatemalan boy looks over his mother's shoulder while waiting in line for food at the Casa del Refugiado, or The House of Refugee, a new centre opened by the Annunciation House to help the large flow of migrants being released by the United States Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso, Texas on April 24, 2019. (Getty/Paul Ratje)

Mumps outbreak in the camps

Sophia Tesfaye
A sign explaining the local state of emergency because of a measles outbreak at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y., March 27, 2019. (AP/Seth Wenig)

GOP moves toward anti-vaxxer stance

Igor Derysh
(Shutterstock)

Superbugs are getting deadlier

Bryan Gibb