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Topic: infectious disease

Virus (Getty Images / Yuichiro Chino)

Viruses are in us. And are us. It's ok.

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Woman having painful stomachache. (Getty Images / athima tongloom)

Think twice before a parasite cleanse

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Virus spore in an ice cube (Getty Images/Yingko)

Prepping for diseases from melting ice

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A duckling is vaccinated with Volvac vaccine against Influenza in a breeding in Renung, southwestern France, on July 1, 2024. (GAIZKA IROZ/AFP via Getty Images)

First detection of H5N9 flu in poultry

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Ducks with bird flu also known as poultry flu are collected and put in a container on Pommernhof in Zarnewanz near Rostock, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on November 28, 2024 in Zarnewanz, Germany. (Frank Soellner/Getty Images)

Is climate change making bird flu worse?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Doctor holding a test blood sample tube positive with Bird Flu test (Getty Images/SyhinStas)

Bird flu suspected in California child

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Workers perform milking operations in the interior of a dairy parlor at a large California dairy/San Joaquin Valley, California, USA. (Ed Young/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

More suspected human bird flu cases

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Angolan health workers treat, 05 April 2005, a 22-year-old woman, a new suspected case of the Marburg haemorrhagic fever in a clinic in Cacuaco township, outside Luanda, where the Ebola-like virus s killed at least 155 people. (FLORENCE PANOUSSIAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Marburg virus outbreak spreads in Rwanda

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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A view of the LAX Airport with the Theme Building in Los Angeles, United States on November 15, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Measles case tracked to LAX

Rae Hodge
Scene setter images outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 in Atlanta, GA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Leprosy is probably endemic to Florida

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A curious mink, it's head slightly lifted as it sniffs the air (Getty Images/JZHunt)

Freed mink could cause an eco-crisis

Matthew Rozsa
A flooded street after Hurricane Sandy. (Getty/jonathansloane)

Climate change's public health crisis

Nicole Karlis
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(AP/Andre Penner)

This summer might be full of mosquitoes

Heath MacMillan - The Conversation
(AP/Sue Ogrocki)

How vetertinarians can defeat Ebola

Neil Olson
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Lindsay Abrams
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Wash your f***ing hands

Lindsay Abrams
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Jenny Kutner
Rand Paul, Ann Coulter (AP/Reed Saxon/Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com/photo montage by Salon)

Cutting through the Ebola B.S.

Lindsay Abrams
Scanning electron microscopic image of Ebola virions (Public Library of Science)

Lindsay Abrams
(CDC)

Lindsay Abrams
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(CDC)

Jenny Kutner
Scanning electron microscopic image of Ebola virions (Public Library of Science)

Lindsay Abrams
(CDC)

Joanna Rothkopf
Scanning electron micrograph depicting a mass of Yersinia pestis bacteria (the cause of bubonic plague) in the foregut of the flea vector (NIH/Wikimedia Commons)

Lindsay Abrams
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