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How your ancestors’ farms shaped your thinking
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Global emergency declared as polio cases surge
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Soil samples don’t prove who’s behind Syria gas attack
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Antibiotic-resistant superbugs now a global epidemic
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Avoid camels to escape MERS, warns Saudi minister
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Threatwatch: Is the MERS virus spreading its wings?
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Will an antiviral drug put paid to measles?
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Syria chemical weapons deadline needs fair seas
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Is stockpiling pandemic flu drugs shrewd or misguided?
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Environment
Japan ordered to stop Antarctic ‘scientific’ whaling
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Threatwatch: Will deadly Ebola become more contagious?
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Earth
Europe means business reeling in pirate fisheries
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