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Viral diseases

Warm scarf on nose
Science
Keep your nose warm this winter — the cold virus loves cold noses
Pittsburgh Penguins player Sidney Crosby has been diagnosed with the mumps.
Sports
A mumps outbreak benches some of the NHL’s top players
Fruit bats like the ones pictured here are often key vectors for diseases like Ebola, and disturbing their habitats may have made humans more vulnerable.
Environment
Here’s how cutting down West African trees made us vulnerable to Ebola
Health workers attend a protest on October 7, 2014, outside Madrid's La Paz Hospital calling for Spain's health minister, Ana Mato, to resign after a Spanish nurse contracted Ebola.
Health
At the hospital where a Spanish nurse got Ebola, workers say their training was poor
Health & Medicine
Cancer’s New Battleground: Infectious diseases a leading cancer cause
A young Burkitt's lymphoma patient.
Health & Medicine
Part IV: The Infectious Connection