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Topic: Virology

Virus (Getty Images / Yuichiro Chino)

Viruses are in us. And are us. It's ok.

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Long covid activists attend the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies hearing on the "Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health," in Dirksen building on Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Will XEC be this winter’s COVID variant?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A member of the medical staff (L) checking the body temperature of a patient who has displayed mild symptoms of the COVID-19 coronavirus, at an exhibition centre converted into a hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

FBI director believes lab leak theory

Matthew Rozsa
Spotlight on a virus spore (Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

The gene that explains consciousness

Matthew Rozsa
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Scanning electron micrograph of HIV particles infecting a human H9 T cell (Getty Images)

Viruses have a mind of their own

Ivan Erill - The Conversation
Computer artwork of virus particles in the bloodstream. (Getty Images)

New Langya virus infects 35 in China

Matthew Rozsa
A man wearing a protective face mask walks past an illustration of a virus outside Oldham Regional Science Centre on November 24, 2020 in Oldham, United Kingdom. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

What COVID-19 will look like in 2100

Nicole Karlis
Himesh Patel in "Station Eleven" (Ian Watson/HBO Max)

How realistic is "Station Eleven's" flu?

Nicole Karlis
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Virus Spores (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How viruses made life possible

Matthew Rozsa
Face mask in winter (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Winter could spur new COVID surge

Nicole Karlis
Model of Human Coronavirus, fractured (Getty Images/Alexandr Gnezdilov Light Painting)

Why COVID is unlikely to become deadlier

Nicole Karlis
Scientist pipetting a virus onto a petri dish (Getty Images)

Lab leak theory "can't be ruled out"

Matthew Rozsa
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Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Dog wearing a medical mask (Getty Images)

A coronavirus moves from dogs to humans

Nicole Karlis
Virus spores leaking out of a bathroom (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Hospital study reveals how virus spreads

Nicole Karlis
Concept: The New York Times' take on Coronavirus, featuring a 1882 illustrated depiction of diseases emanating from Chinatown. (Getty Images/WikiCommons/Salon)

The racist art of naming a virus

Marie Myung-Ok Lee
(NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. cities preparing for coronavirus

Nicole Karlis
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