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Topic: pandemics

Marble Roman bust with a surgical mask over its face. (Getty Images / OsakaWayne Studios)

Colonialism is at the root of pandemics

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Bird Flu (Getty Images/Peter Garrard Beck)

Bird flu isn't as silent as we think

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A rooster is held in a cage on a farm on January 23, 2023 in Austin, Texas. The poultry industry as well as private flocks are suffering a health crisis as the bird flu continues to spread across the United States. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Factory farming's ticking time bomb

Michael Windsor
A pharmacist packs HIV self-test kits at a community center operated by LoveYourself, a nonprofit impacted by the Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid, on February 19, 2025 in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. (Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)

HIV/AIDS treatment needs federal support

Jesse Milan, Stephen Lee
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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
Cat watching a small bird (Getty Images/zmijak)

House cats with bird flu could pose risk

Sarah Boden - KFF Health News
Young female patient in the clinic suffering a coughing fit while the doctor listens to the her lungs with a stethoscope. (Getty Images/stefanamer)

Is it seasonal influenza or bird flu?

Nicole Karlis
Man's hands in protective gloves searching bread on empty shelves in a groceries store (Getty Images/ArtMarie)

Meet the bird flu pandemic preppers

Nicole Karlis
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ITHACA, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 10: HDC receiving staff prep arriving milk samples for testing at the Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University on December 10, 2024 in Ithaca, New York. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

First U.S. death from bird flu reported

Troy Farah
Milk samples are seen as HDC receiving staff prep them for testing at the Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University on December 10, 2024 in Ithaca, New York. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Those "concerning" bird flu mutations

Nicole Karlis
Livestock outside of Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA. (Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How America lost control of bird flu

Amy Maxmen - KFF Health News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and dairy cows (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Fear of Trump mangling bird flu response

Nicole Karlis
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A microbiologist tests poultry samples collected from a farm located in a control area for the presence of avian influenza, or bird flu, at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on March 24, 2022 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Mysterious bird flu cases worry experts

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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)

Europe to tighten bird flu surveillance

Nicole Karlis
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displaced community members arrive at a health center in Kishinji, located in the South Kivu province. (Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/Getty Images)

Frontline mpox responders need support

Ben Smilowitz, Ankush Bansal - Undark
Dr. Gaurav Shinde gives a patient her vaccinations for COVID and her flu shot at the Walgreens pharmacy in Torrance, California on September 5, 2024. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Third of Americans distrust COVID shots

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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A woman wearing a mask and gloves reads a local newspaper amid the coronavirus pandemic on May 21, 2020 in New York City. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Are people more afraid of illness today?

Nicole Karlis
Doctor applies bandage to preteen girl's arm following an immunization (Getty Images/Witthaya Prasongsin)

How flu shots can help against bird flu

Allen Cheng - The Conversation
Holstein dairy cows feed on haylage at a dairy feedbunk/near Escalon, San Joaquin County, California, USA. (Bill & Brigitte Clough/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Bird flu detected in California cows

Troy Farah
Health workers prepare an isolation ward for mpox patients at the Police and Services hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on August 20, 2024. (ABDUL MAJEED/AFP via Getty Images)

Deadly mpox strain detected in Thailand

Matthew Rozsa
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Health workers monitor Mpox patients at the Mpox treatment centre of the Nyiragongo general reference hospital, north of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on August 16, 2024. (GUERCHOM NDEBO / Contributor (Getty Images))

Mpox outbreak is a health equity problem

Nicole Karlis
A registered nurse prepares to administer an intradermal monkeypox vaccine to a person at a vaccination site setup in Tropical Park by Miami-Dade County and Nomi Health on August 15, 2022 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected

Wolfgang Preiser, Cheryl Baxter, Jean Nachega - The Conversation
Long-billed Vulture (Gyps indicus) at Bandhavgarh National park, Madhya Pradesh, India (Getty Images/ePhotocorp)

Vulture deaths linked to human deaths

Matthew Rozsa
Farmer feeds his cows on at his farm on Thursday, September 5, 2019, in Hugo, Minnesota. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Bird flu cases going undetected: study

Amy Maxmen - KFF Health News
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