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The US is ramping up bird flu surveillance – but will it be enough?

Two more people in the US have tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, highlighting the need for expanded influenza surveillance to prevent a potential pandemic

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What to know about the new covid-19 XEC variant

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Bird flu virus that infected a person in Missouri had a rare mutation

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How deadly is mpox and what treatments are available?

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Everything you need to know about the mpox outbreak

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Anopheles gambiae, collected in Mauritius, in the 1950s. image shot by Mariam Ghani in the storage facility of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, The mosquitoes belong to a US Army collection of insects that is stored in that site.

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A visually rich documentary packs a punch about how we see disease

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How diseases like smallpox survived long ocean voyages

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Bird flu cases may be going undetected in US dairy workers

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The plague may have wiped out most northern Europeans 5000 years ago

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Transmission electron micrograph of mpox virus particles (teal) within an infected cell

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Dangerous mpox strain spreading in Democratic Republic of the Congo

A new strain of mpox transmitted mainly by heterosexual sex has emerged in a mining town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is now spreading to other towns

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Martin Rees: Why challenge prizes can solve our most pressing issues

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Risk of bird flu outbreak in cows causing pandemic is less than feared

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Why we still don't know exactly how bird flu is spreading between cows

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Lack of US bird flu tracking in cows may raise risk of human infection

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