In 2013, a toddler was playing under a hollow tree in rural Guinea that happened to be occupied by bats carrying Ebola. The boy contracted the disease and died, becoming patient zero in an epidemic that killed close to 10,000 ...
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This week, a hospital in New Orleans reported two patients with a fungal disease caused by Candida auris, which can be deadly, hard to clean, and resistant to treatment. The cases were the first in Louisiana, and came just a ...
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An imported case of monkeypox has made its way to the US for the second time this year. A traveler who had just returned from a trip to Nigeria was diagnosed in Maryland and is now recovering in isolation. Although ...
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