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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
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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
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
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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
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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
Cows queuing for their midway milking at United Dreams Dairy, in North Freedom, Wisconsin on May 8, 2024. (Matthew Ludak for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Bird flu mutations spark concern

Nicole Karlis
Tampons (Megan Madden / Refinery29 for Getty Images)

Study: Tampons contain toxic metals

Rae Hodge
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A man in the metro wears a medical mask for protection in Istanbul on February 3, 2024. (ILKER ERAY/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Is the COVID summer wave here?

Troy Farah
Child Mind Institute Convenes Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy on World Mental Health Day for Youth Panel on October 10, 2023 in New York City. (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

Gun violence "a public health crisis"

Rachana Pradhan, Fred Clasen-Kelly - KFF Health News
Bird Flu Infected Animals: Cow, Chicken, Cat and Mouse (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The biggest mysteries about bird flu

Troy Farah, Nicole Karlis
A dengue fever patient walks inside the Sergio Bernales National Hospital in the outskirts of Lima on April 17, 2024. (Juan Carlos CISNEROS / AFP) (Photo by JUAN CARLOS CISNEROS/AFP via Getty Images)

Neglected tropical diseases need action

Mary Woolley
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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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