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Alexandra Truwit of the United States competes in the Women's 400 Meter Freestyle S10 heats during the 2024 U.S. Paralympic Swimming Trials at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center on June 28, 2024 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

Paralympian's journey post-shark attack

Gabriella Ferrigine
Cityscape on horizon over shark infested sea (Getty Images/Wavebreakmedia)

Why more shark encounters are coming

Matthew Rozsa
How to protect yourself during a shark attack (AP)

Brendan Bures
A helicopter flies over the Ocean Crest Pier in Oak Island, N.C., Monday, June 15, 2015. A 12-year-old girl from Asheboro lost part of her arm and suffered a leg injury, and a 16-year-old boy from Colorado lost his left arm about an hour later and 2 miles away in two separate shark attacks late Sunday afternoon. (AP/Chuck Burton)

Joanna Rothkopf
Nowa Paye, 9, is taken to an ambulance after showing signs of the Ebola infection in the village of Freeman Reserve, Liberia, Sept. 30, 2014. (AP/Jerome Delay)

Ebola's epidemic of fear

Andrew O'Hehir
(mingis/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(Dominique de La Croix/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(<ahref ‘http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1720960p1.html’>Alexius Sutandio</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Jason Bittel
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