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Globe on a stethoscope (Getty Images/Sorapop)

Improve global health by listening

Kinari Webb, Garry Aslanyan - Undark
President Donald J. Trump speaks with members of the coronavirus task force during a briefing in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Thursday, April 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Don't forget how Trump botched COVID

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Pigs wait for food at the Burger's Farm Market in Drums, Pennsylvania. (Aimee Dilger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Bird flu detected in pigs for first time

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A view of burned and destroyed Al-Shifa Hospital due to the Israeli attacks that continue in Gaza City, Gaza on April 1, 2024. (Abdulqader Sabbah/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Gaza's collapsing public health system

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Boston, MA - May 7: Nichola Hill, an assistant professor at University of Massachusetts Boston. She studies infectious diseases, including bird flu. (Photo by Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Struggle to track human bird flu cases

Amy Maxmen - KFF Health News
Citizens queue for food that is cooked in large pots and distributed for free during war-time on December 28, 2023 in Rafah, Gaza. (Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

War’s public health impacts are vast

Jyoti Madhusoodanan - Undark
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

RFK Jr.'s "healthy" plan could backfire

Elizabeth Hlavinka
US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a roundtable conversation about marijuana reform and criminal justice reform, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 15, 2024 in Washington, DC. (KENT NISHIMURA/AFP via Getty Images)

Harris pledges to legalize marijuana

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
Check up visit in doctor's office (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

Why our definition of obesity is flawed

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)

Experts worried humans getting bird flu

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A staff member packs overdose prevention kits, including Narcan nasal spray used to treat narcotic overdoses in an emergency situation, at St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction in New York City on April 24, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Overdoses decline but not for everyone

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
Little girl coughing into elbow while being at medical clinic (Getty Images/Drazen Zigic)

Whooping cough wave nears decade high

Rae Hodge
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
An environmental health specialist and entomologist for the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness displays a mosquito collected earlier in the day on August 25, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Climate change is expanding reach of EEE

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Workers unload a shipment of polio vaccines provided with support from UNICEF to the Gaza Strip through the Karm Abu Salem crossing, also known as Kerem Shalom, at a depot belonging to Gaza's health ministry on August 25, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel's war in Gaza poses polio risks

Matthew Rozsa
Parents looking burnout and frustrated and stressed. (Getty Images/filadendron)

Parental stress is now a health crisis

Nicole Karlis
Bronze medalist Noah Lyles of Team United States reacts after competing in the Men's 200m Final on day thirteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 08, 2024 in Paris, France. (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

Noah Lyles underscores our COVID denial

Troy Farah
Farmer moves her cows into a barn for their evening milking on April 25, 2017 near Cambridge, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Pinpointing bird flu mortality rate

Teresa Carr - Undark
Children line up with bottles to get clean water on streets flooded with leaked sewage as the municipality announces the suspension of work in sewage treatment plants as they lack sufficient fuel due to Israel's attacks and blockade in Deir al Balah, Gaza on July 16, 2024. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Poliovirus detected in Gaza wastewater

Matthew Rozsa
A healthcare worker prepares to administer a vaccine to a patient for the prevention of mpox the Pride Center on July 12, 2022 in Wilton Manors, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Mpox mutating to become more contagious

Nicole Karlis
Obstetrician and gynecologist Taylar Swartz uses an ultrasound scanner to check the health of Addie Comegys’ baby on May 30, 2024. (Tony Leys/KFF Health News)

Rural hospitals now face baby bust

Tony Leys - KFF Health News
Eggs in a carton (Getty Images/Stefania Pelfini, La Waziya Photography)

Egg facility prompts bird flu emergency

Rae Hodge
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