An open letter to Johnson & Johnson regarding its strategy to extend its patent on bedaquiline leading to a predicted six million lives lost over four years
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Five locally transmitted cases of Malaria in USA, first since early 2000s
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Covid backlash hobbles US public health and future pandemic response
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The Reemergent 1977 H1N1 Strain and the Gain-of-Function Debate (2015)
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How do pandemics begin? There's a new theory — and a new strategy to thwart them
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H5N1 bird flu could cause an even deadlier pandemic
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Infectious disease applicants plummet, and US hospitals are scrambling
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What you need to know about Group A Strep (scarlet fever)?
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New evidence indicates that an effort to stamp out disease-carrying insects is working. The key? Mosquitoes genetically engineered to kill off their own kind.
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Rising ebola cases in Uganda spark regional concern
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New malaria vaccine is world-changing, say scientists
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White House declares mpox a public health emergency
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Polio found in New York wastewater as state urges vaccinations
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World Health Organization declares mpox spread a global health emergency
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US doctors treating mpox complain of ‘daunting’ paperwork, obstacles
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US Food and Drug Administration officials took months to inspect a critical plant in Europe, leaving Americans without shots as mpox spreads
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'Ebola is defeated,' says Congolese professor who discovered the virus
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Mpox 101, unanswered questions, and the bigger picture
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So, have you heard about mpox?
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How we track COVID-19 (and other weird stuff) in sewage
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Vaccinia
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First malaria vaccine approved by World Health Organization
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The great measles immunity heist
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A new, infectious coronavirus is detected in Malaysia – and it's coming from dogs
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The last time a vaccine saved America
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Bird flu: Russia detects first case of H5N8 bird flu in humans
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Genghis Khan may have been killed by a pandemic
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How New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month
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Team behind Oxford Covid jab start final stage of malaria vaccine trials
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Researchers say they have found the world's earliest confirmed case of smallpox, revealing the disease was widespread across northern Europe during the Viking age
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A Javanese dish to banish the plague
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Smallpox and the long road to eradication
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Warnings of worsening hunger, malaria emerge as coronavirus cases spike 40% in Africa
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How one man poisoned a city’s water supply (and saved millions of children’s lives in the process)
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How infectious disease defined the American bathroom
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Why measles deaths are surging — and coronavirus could make it worse
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What Shakespeare actually did during the plague
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Coronavirus FAQ’s by Dr. Megan Murray (Harvard Infectious Disease specialist)
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FDA approves ebola vaccine with 100% effectiveness
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More than 140,000 people died from measles in 2018 as cases surged globally, amidst devastating outbreaks in all regions
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Denmark completes contentious fence along German border – the fence is meant to prevent wild boar from spreading swine fever to Denmark's lucrative pork industry
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An update on the global measles situation based on information shared by World Health Organization member states
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Slaying the speckled monster - The history of smallpox and the origins of vaccines
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Germany makes measles vaccination compulsory
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How to spread hep A without leaving your house
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Surge of measles cases results in Albania, Czechia, Greece and the United Kingdom losing their measles elimination status
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The message of measles - As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the US in decades, they’ve been fighting as much against dangerous ideas as they have against the disease
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Uganda starts largest trial of experimental Ebola vaccine
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Origins of the current outbreak of multidrug-resistant malaria in southeast Asia: a retrospective genetic study
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Lyme disease cases are exploding. And it’s only going to get worse.
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