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Highly contagious avian influenza has been circulating around the world since 2020.Ulises Ruiz/AFP via Getty Images The H5N1 avian influenza virus that is circulating around the…
In March 2020, people disinfect a market in Wuhan, which is believed to be the origin of the new coronavirus infection. Yuan/China News Service (via Getty…
MPOX awareness banner displayed at Chennai International Airport in India on August 21 R. Satish Babu/AFP via Getty Images A new MPOX variant, called the Ib…
People demonstrate outside the UK COVID-19 Inquiry site in London in October 2023. Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images “The UK prepared for the wrong pandemic” This…
Shutterstock/Katerina Con When Gene Marrazzo was announced as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) last year, he became one of the…
‘TToday is the first day of your new life on this pristine and beautiful island. Well then, congratulations! ” says benevolent raccoon landlord Tom Nook minutes…
Melting permafrost on Russia's Yamal Peninsula (pictured) is exposing nomadic reindeer herders (below) to anthrax.Elena Shchipkova/Alamy In November 2019, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,…
Mountain yellow-legged frog in Yosemite National Park, CaliforniaRoland Knapp Wild frog populations appear to have evolved resistance to deadly fungal pathogens that feed on their skin.…
puberty: A transitional stage in physical and psychological development that begins at the onset of adolescence, usually between the ages of 11 and 13, and ends…
