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Manager of overdose prevention secures covers on returned full sharps containers at the 6th Street Harm Reduction Center operated by the SF AIDS Foundation in San Francisco, Calif. on Friday, June 2, 2017. (Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Overdose crisis takes toll on responders

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Curious Holstein dairy cows feed on silage in a freestall barn at a dairy farm in San Joaquin Valley, California, USA. (Ed Young/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Are we "flying blind" with bird flu?

Nicole Karlis
The City of Flint Water Plant is illuminated by moonlight on January 23, 2016 in Flint, Michigan. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

Ten years after Flint, distrust lingers

Anna Clark, Sarahbeth Maney - ProPublica
Dairy Cattle (Getty Images/Peter Cade)

We don't know how bad bird flu is yet

Nicole Karlis
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A health worker injects a man with a shot of the Inavac vaccine for Covid-19 at the Jakarta provincial health office on December 19, 2023. (BAY ISMOYO/AFP via Getty Images)

One-shot vaccine coming for COVID, flu

Nicole Karlis
A dose of measles vaccine is seen at the Miami Children's Hospital in Miami, Florida. (Photo illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The massive burden of a measles outbreak

Nicole Karlis
A cyclist stands on the beach near the U.S.-Mexico border barrier which extends into the Pacific Ocean on April 7, 2022 in Tijuana, Mexico. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Tijuana sewage causing health crisis

Matthew Rozsa
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press at General Mitchell International Airport November 2, 2020, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's return comes with health risks

Chauncey DeVega
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Bad psychedelic trip, concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The dangers of psychedelic trip killers

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Close-up of Ozempic needle injection pen (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"Faux-zempic" driving hospitalizations

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Tick Reaching For Human Leg (Getty Images/kmatija)

Desperate Lyme patients lack answers

Elizabeth Hlavinka
U. S. Senator Charles Schumer speaks while holding photo of bottle with drug Xylazine during the briefing at 875 3rd Avenue lobby in Manhattan on drug Xylazine linked to overdose deaths. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why banning this drug could backfire

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Young woman with high temperature and flu lying down on sofa (Getty Images/gpointstudio)

Are we getting more sick after COVID?

Nicole Karlis
Woman holding open prescription pill bottle (Getty Images/Catherine McQueen)

The rise of rogue online pharmacies

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Mosquito in old book with mosquito swatter and blood stain (Getty Images/Nikola Nastasic)

Mosquito-borne illness reaches U.S. soil

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Swetlana Rot prepares water samples in a laboratory of the Saxony-Anhalt State Office for Environmental Protection in Halle/Saale. The scientists here examine wastewater for the coronavirus pathogen. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

COVID wastewater data is being distorted

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Kim Nguyen, pharmacist, prepares to give a Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine at CVS, 12550 Louetta Rd., Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in Cypress, Texas. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Hiccups reported in COVID vax rollout

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Nurse standing by elderly woman sitting on wheelchair (Getty Images/Morsa Images)

Nursing homes still waiting for vaccines

Jordan Rau, Tony Leys - KFF Health News
This Scanning Electron Micrograph Sem Depicts A Flagellated Vibrio Vulnificus Bacterium; Mag. 13184X. (BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images)

Flesh-eating bacteria infections rising

Bill Sullivan - The Conversation
Raccoon sitting on a tree (Getty Images/Enn Li Photography)

How to make tasty vaccines for raccoons

Emily Mullin - Undark
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Headstones and American flags are seen at the Arlington National Cemetery, United States military cemetery in Virginia, United States on May 29, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Is America a death cult?

Troy Farah
Colony of Little Brown Bats (Getty Images/Joe McDonald)

Prevent the next pandemic. Avoid bats

Steve Osofsky, Susan Lieberman - Undark
Linda Noneo's work as a community health representative for her tribe in Nevada is focused on providing transportation to health care appointments for Fallon Paiute-Shoshone members. (JAZMIN OROZCO RODRIGUEZ/KFF HEALTH NEWS)

Nevada paying tribal workers better

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez - KFF Health News
Handguns that were swapped for gift cards during a Los Angeles Police Department sponsored gun buyback event in Los Angeles, California on December 13, 2014. (MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

Gun violence is a public health crisis

Dan Falk - Undark
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