Pandemics

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How C. difficile Infections Work and Why They Recur Health

How C. difficile Infections Work and Why They Recur

C. difficile is a spore-forming bacterium that hijacks the gut after antibiotics wipe out protective bacteria. Here's how it works, why it keeps comin...

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How Nasal Spray Vaccines Work and Why They Matter

Nasal spray vaccines work by training the immune system at the exact point where viruses enter the body — the nose and airways — creating a line of de...

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Hepatitis A Outbreak Closes Prague Restaurant: Nine Infected Health

Hepatitis A Outbreak Closes Prague Restaurant: Nine Infected

Prague's public health authority has confirmed a hepatitis A outbreak at a restaurant in Prague 6. Nine people, including the owner, have fallen ill....

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Plague Found in 4,000-Year-Old Sheep, Reshaping History Science

Plague Found in 4,000-Year-Old Sheep, Reshaping History

Scientists have discovered Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Black Death — in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep from the Ural Mountains, th...

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Stanford's Universal Vaccine Shields Against Viruses and Bacteria Science

Stanford's Universal Vaccine Shields Against Viruses and Bacteria

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed a prototype nasal-spray vaccine that protects mice against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria,...

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Measles Surges Across US, Threatening Elimination Status Health

Measles Surges Across US, Threatening Elimination Status

The United States has recorded over 1,136 measles cases in just two months of 2026 — already nearing half of last year's 30-year record — as unvaccina...

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Measles Surge and New Mpox Strain Alarm Health Officials Health

Measles Surge and New Mpox Strain Alarm Health Officials

The United States has recorded over 1,136 measles cases in just two months of 2026 — six times the annual norm — while WHO has confirmed a novel recom...

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Stanford Spray Vaccine Protects Against COVID and Flu Health

Stanford Spray Vaccine Protects Against COVID and Flu

Stanford scientists have developed a nasal spray vaccine that protected mice against COVID-19, influenza, pneumonia, and allergies by activating the l...

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One Nasal Spray to Fight COVID, Flu, Pneumonia, Allergies Health

One Nasal Spray to Fight COVID, Flu, Pneumonia, Allergies

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed a universal nasal vaccine that reprograms the lung's innate immune cells, providing broad protection agai...

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Stanford Nasal Vaccine Fights Viruses, Bacteria, Allergens Health

Stanford Nasal Vaccine Fights Viruses, Bacteria, Allergens

Stanford researchers have developed a universal nasal-spray vaccine that protected mice against SARS-CoV-2, drug-resistant bacteria, and common allerg...

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WHO Seeks $1 Billion as Health Crises Outpace Funding Health

WHO Seeks $1 Billion as Health Crises Outpace Funding

The World Health Organization launched a nearly $1 billion appeal for 2026 to address 36 emergencies worldwide, warning that shrinking aid budgets and...

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Cholera Vaccination Milestone: Preventive Campaigns Resume After Three-Year Global Shortage Health

Cholera Vaccination Milestone: Preventive Campaigns Resume After Three-Year Global Shortage

For the first time in over three years, global cholera vaccine supplies have recovered enough to restart life-saving preventive campaigns, with Mozamb...

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