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How a Jewish ghetto beat a typhus epidemic during the second world war

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How a Jewish ghetto beat a typhus epidemic during the second world war

Jews imprisoned in a ghetto during the second world war stamped out a big typhus outbreak using public health measures like those currently being used to fight covid-19

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Alzheimer's beta-amyloid fibrils

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Alzheimer’s disease may start in the gut and spread to the brain

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Climate change may push Zika virus into southern and eastern Europe

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Climate change may push Zika virus into southern and eastern Europe

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A handmade sign outside Ballachulish in Scotland’s Highlands

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Scotland could eliminate the coronavirus – if it weren't for England

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Wellington, New Zealand, in May as restrictions began to be eased

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Why New Zealand decided to go for full elimination of the coronavirus

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Tick under the microscope

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Monitoring of ticks in the US is patchy and underfunded

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Is it safe for coronavirus 'shielders' in the UK to go outside now?

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Is it safe for coronavirus 'shielders' in the UK to go outside now?

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A pig, the animal from which the swine flu (H1N1) originated

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Swine flu (H1N1)

Chronic Lyme disease: How one tick bite can ruin your health forever

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Chronic Lyme disease: How one tick bite can ruin your health forever

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Parkinson’s disease may spread from brain to gut and vice versa

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Parkinson’s disease may spread from brain to gut and vice versa

Research in baboons suggests that misfolded proteins linked to Parkinson’s disease can travel from the brain to gut and vice versa – with both routes causing equal amounts of brain cell death

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Mind

We can see when your brain forms a memory by watching you move

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HPV vaccine linked to fewer premature births in Australia

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Coronavirus and covid-19: Your questions answered

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