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Signs point the way to measles testing in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District across from Wigwam Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Seminole, Texas. (Photo by Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images)

As measles exploded, West Texas officials looked to CDC scientists. No one answered.

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Center for Disese Control (CDC) lab technicians conducting virus research in 1952. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Trump administration’s halt of CDC’s weekly scientific report stalls bird flu studies

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Livestock outside of Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA. (Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How America lost control of bird flu, setting the stage for another pandemic

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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)

Emails reveal how health departments struggle to track human cases of bird flu

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Farmer feeds his cows on at his farm on Thursday, September 5, 2019, in Hugo, Minnesota. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Bird flu cases are going undetected, new study suggests. It’s a problem for all of us

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Vet looking at a calf on a farm (Getty Images/Westend61)

Finland is offering farmworkers bird flu shots. Some experts say the US should, too

Amy Maxmen, Arthur Allen
Drivers wait in a long line of cars for a COVID-19 test at a drive-through test site on December 9, 2020 in Riverside, California. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

“We’re flying blind”: CDC has 1M bird flu tests ready, but experts see repeat of COVID missteps

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Row of cows being milked on a dairy farm in Utah, USA (Getty Images/AzmanL)

Farmworkers face high-risk exposures to bird flu, but testing isn’t reaching them

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Birds peck at food intended for dairy cattle (Getty Images/Dusty Pixel photography)

Clues from bird flu’s ground zero on dairy farms in the Texas Panhandle

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COVID-19 vaccine vials (Getty Images/Yulia Reznikov)

How lawmakers in Texas and Florida undermine COVID vaccination efforts

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Exhausted construction worker (Getty Images/FG Trade)

Workers pay the price while congress and employers debate need for heat regulations

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