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infectious diseases

A health worker prepares a diphtheria and tetanus vaccine

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Australia is battling its largest diphtheria outbreak in living memory

Vaccine misinformation, nurse and doctor shortages and crowded living arrangements may be behind soaring rates of diphtheria in remote Indigenous communities in Australia

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Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds

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How an 1800s vaccine drive beat smallpox in Denmark in just 7 years

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Ancient bacterium discovery rewrites the origins of syphilis

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Humans

Roman soldiers defending Hadrian’s Wall had intestinal parasites

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Environment

Volcano eruption may have led to the Black Death coming to Europe

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Humans

DNA analysis reveals what really killed Napoleon’s army in 1812

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Humans

Leprosy was in the Americas long before the arrival of Europeans

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Norovirus vaccine pill shows promise against ‘winter vomiting’ bug

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France slashed bird flu outbreaks by vaccinating ducks

A vaccination campaign targeting ducks, the farm birds most at risk of getting and spreading bird flu, succeeded in greatly reducing outbreaks of the virus on poultry farms in France

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How deadly is mpox and what treatments are available?

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How diseases like smallpox survived long ocean voyages

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Humans

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

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Dangerous mpox strain spreading in Democratic Republic of the Congo

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