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7 men have died amid ‘one of the worst meningococcal outbreaks’ in US history. The CDC is urging people to get vaccinated.

Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria is one of the main causes of bacterial meningitis, infecting brain cells. Getty A meningococcal disease...

How Covid Tracking Apps Are Pivoting for Commercial Profit

On March 20, 2020—three days before the first UK lockdown—Tim Spector realized that the country was in desperate need...

Some Scientists Coined a New Name for Summer: ‘Danger Season’

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Summer has remained mostly...

When Covid Came for Provincetown

It is July 10, 2021, a Saturday, and Sean Holihan is on a short flight down the East Coast...

Monkeypox Can Be Contained—but Time Is Running Out

After witnessing the rise of monkeypox in parts of West and Central Africa over the past two decades, Anne...

The Mystery of Monkeypox’s Global Spread

When Moritz Kraemer first heard about the new monkeypox outbreak spreading through the UK, Europe, and the US, it...

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