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71,000 Americans Died of Drug Overdoses. The War On Drugs Has Failed.

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Archaeological Record Reveals Epidemics and Responses Throughout History

How Coronavirus Could Lead to Even More Racism

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How We Classify Diseases Into Epidemics, Pandemics, and Outbreaks

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Could It Get This Bad? What Polio Can Teach Us About Coronavirus

Coronavirus Is Scary, But The Bubonic Plague Was On A Whole Other Level

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A Journalist Explains How Panic Makes the Headlines and Headlines Breed Fear

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How to Debunk All the Rumors and Lies About Coronavirus

Forget the Coronavirus: The Flu Pandemic of 1918 Killed More People in One Year than all of World War I

An ecologist extracts a sample of blood from a Mastomys Natalensis rodent in the village of Jormu in southeastern Sierra Leone February 8, 2011

The Next Global Health Emergency? What Is Lassa Fever?

Spectators wearing masks in precaution of the coronavirus outbreak watch an aerial display at the Singapore Airshow in Singapore February 11, 2020. REUTERS/Edgar Su

Fake News: The Deadly Epidemic Inside Deadly Epidemics

A monarch butterfly is seen at El Rosario sanctuary for monarch butterflies in the western state of Michoacan, near Ocampo, Mexico February 3, 2020. REUTERS/Alan Ortega

Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Is Coming—But Insects (And Their Poop) Might Stop Them

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Could 1 App Help Track the Coronavirus Outbreak?

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How the Wuhan Coronavirus Crisis Challenges Xi Jinping's Power

A nurse fills a syringe with a vaccine before administering an injection at a kids clinic in Kiev, Ukraine August 14, 2019. Picture taken August 14, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

Arizona Can Make One Simple Move To Slash HIV and Hepatitis Infections

A man in protective suit works on disinfecting the aircraft cabin for a Hainan Airlines flight, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, at the Haikou Meilan International Airport in Haikou, Hainan province, China February 7, 2020.

Trump's War Against the Coronavirus Is Working

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