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Topic: public health (page 5)

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
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
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
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
Mutating virus variant (Getty Images/wildpixel)

Highly-mutated Covid strain identified

Elizabeth Hlavinka
(Getty/Stuart Ritchie)

Opioid settlement cash going to police

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The parking lot is nearly deserted at Forest Plaza on March 24, 2020 in Rockford, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Why is America going backward?

Mike Lofgren
Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) on human skin (Getty Images/epantha)

A mysterious tick-related meat allergy

Elizabeth Hlavinka
'The London Bathing Season,' from Punch, or the London Charivari, June 18, 1859. (The Cartoon Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Climate change could make a Great Stink

Matthew Rozsa
An Aedes Aegypti mosquito (Afp/getty Images)

Mosquitos bringing malaria north

Mary Katherine Wildeman - Grist
PCR testing site for COVID-19 variants at a new test facility at Tom Bradley International Terminal (Terminal B) that health officials hope will help them spot new variants that may emerge from passengers arriving from other countries at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday, Jan. 2, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The CDC has stopped tracking COVID cases

Nicole Karlis
A woman wearing a mask walks in the crowd (Arne Dedert/picture alliance via Getty Images)

All my COVID precautions were in vain

Maggie Mills
Garbage, pollution (Getty Images)

Oregon bans PFAS in food containers

Joseph Winters - Grist
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