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infectious diseases

A drone sprays insecticide near homes on the outskirts of Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. Brazil's health ministry launched a campaign to fight the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits dengue, zika and chikungunya, diseases that can generate
Health & Medicine
Brazil’s public health workers race to tackle dengue surge
Refugees wait to travel back to Ukraine from the train station in Przemysl, southeastern Poland
Coronavirus Conversations
Ukraine: The humanitarian catastrophe
Dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses are spread by the Aedes species of mosquito, like the Aedes albopictus pictured here
Disease
An unlikely hero could help in the fight against deadly mosquito-borne disease
Pharmacy technician Hollie Maloney loads a syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at the Portland Expo in Portland, Maine.
Critical State
Checking in on the pandemic: Part I
Bar owner Cristina Mattioli put up a sign asking patrons not to talk about COVID-19.
At this Roman bar, talk about anything. Just not COVID-19.
Two Haitians protest with a pink sign against UN peacekeeping mission that caused a massive cholera epidemic.
Global Politics
10 years on, UN officials reflect on Haiti cholera epidemic caused by peacekeeping mission
A young boy is shown wearing a red mask and holding a pencil while sitting on a mat next to a tree outside for school.
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: Reopening schools and workplaces amid the coronavirus
Three women wearing head scarves, long jackets and masks by a gray fountain
COVID-19
In Turkey, doctors fear coronavirus numbers are higher than the government admits 
A woman sings while holding a music book in her hands in a soccer field six-feet away from another singer.
COVID-19
Choirs in the age of coronavirus: A new study looks at the risks of singing
Contact tracers are pictured in a room
COVID-19 threatens global progress in fight against other communicable diseases 
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is seen during a ceremony to lower the Brazilian National flag down for the night, at the Alvorada Palace, amid the coronavirus outbreak in Brasília, Brazil, July 20, 2020.
Why is Brazil’s Bolsonaro peddling hydroxychloroquine despite the science?
A woman wearing a protective face mask passes grocery shoppers amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Singapore on May 15, 2020.
The great reopening
Faithful photographic reproduction of Edvard Munch's painting, "Self-Portrait with Spanish Flu."
Coronavirus Art
Art, poetry and … zombies? The surprising cultural contributions of the 1918 influenza pandemic
An engraving of a Peruvian forest
Health & Medicine
The chloroquine chronicles: A history of the drug that conquered the world
A girl washes her hands at a spigot at the entrance of her parents' house in Pikine, on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal, on March 9, 2020.
COVID-19
What the US can learn from West Africa to slow the spread of coronavirus
A medical worker in protective suit checks a patient's records at Jinyintan hospital in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, in Hubei province, China, Feb. 13, 2020. 
Climate Change
Climate change will make animal-borne diseases more challenging to predict
A nurse wears a white face mask as she holds a syringe in her hand
Health & Medicine
Samoa’s measles epidemic is part of a global, unprecedented resurgence of cases
We see a close up of a man, who visits the new MSF (Doctors Without Borders) Ebola treatment centre in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Health & Medicine
Scientists say Ebola is no longer incurable
a close-up shot of a deer tick
Health & Medicine
No, Lyme disease is not an escaped military bioweapon, despite what conspiracy theorists say
A man in medical scrubs writes onto a wooden cross
Health & Medicine
DR Congo has been fighting Ebola for a year. What does the WHO declaration change?
A man sits while getting his temperature checked.
Health & Medicine
‘No place for complacency’ as Ebola detected in eastern DR Congo
A scientist dissects a mosquito at a research facility in Rockville, Maryland.
Disease
Burkina Faso is fighting malaria — with genetically modified mosquitoes
Two medical staff wear face masks at hospital.
Health & Medicine
DR Congo Ebola outbreak spreads to neighboring Uganda, activating rapid preparedness response
A woman holds a pamphlet in front of a blue door.
Health & Medicine
Leprosy in India is back, but it never really went away
a baby with blonde hair and a white dress receives a vaccination in the left thigh
Health & Medicine
‘Vaccine hesitancy’ is on the WHO’s list of 10 threats to global health in 2019
Arts, Culture & Media
Facing the Facts On What We Eat
Where Did Germany’s ‘Supertoxic’ E. coli Outbreak Come From?