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infectious diseases

A health worker prepares a diphtheria and tetanus vaccine

Health

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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Health

Gamblers are betting millions of dollars on measles outbreaks

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Close-up of woman brushing her teeth.

Health

Brushing your teeth in hospital could prevent catching a bad infection

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An illustration of an enzyme called RNA polymerase replicating viral RNA

Health

Multipurpose anti-viral pill may treat colds, norovirus, flu and covid

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Health

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

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Health

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

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Health

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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The collaborative Human Challenge study is the first in the world to perform detailed monitoring over the full course of COVID-19, from the moment a person first encounters SARS-CoV-2, throughout the infection to the point at which the virus is apparently eliminated. The Human Challenge Programme is a partnership between Imperial College London, the Vaccine Taskforce and Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), hVIVO (part of Open Orphan plc.), and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Health

How deliberately giving people illnesses is supercharging medicine

The covid-19 pandemic opened the door to once-controversial human challenge trials. Now, volunteers are willingly catching norovirus and influenza to reveal how our immune systems really fight back

Features

Humans

How a surge in ancient plagues 5000 years ago shaped humanity

Features

Health

Florida's anti-vaccine push leads dangerous shift for US public health

Analysis

Humans

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

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Health

The world is losing major ground in the fight against measles

Analysis

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