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City in UK takes steps to test entire population for coronavirus

Southampton in the UK plans to test thousands of people each week using cheap saliva tests. If the trial goes well, researchers want to test everyone in the city once a week

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Our shower drains are a breeding ground for drug-resistant bacteria

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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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Discrimination and divorce make you more likely to die early

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Coronavirus test

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Should you pay for a coronavirus test? Here’s what you need to know

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Rise of measles linked with emergence of large cities 2500 years ago

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Coronavirus poses grave threat to Amazon’s indigenous communities

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There will be another pandemic. Thankfully, we already know what to do

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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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How many of us are likely to have caught the coronavirus so far?

Modelling and antibody tests are estimating what proportion of people have already caught the coronavirus 鈥� and it looks like herd immunity is a long way off

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The four major public health threats we need to act on now

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This won’t be the last pandemic. Where will the next one come from?

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We knew how to prevent a pandemic like covid-19, so what went wrong?

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The pandemic playbook: A step-by-step guide to containing an outbreak

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