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Cholera still kills thousands each year – in places without clean water, it’s far from history

  • Katrine L. Wallace, University of Illinois Chicago
  • Updated Jul 29, 2026

While cholera launched modern epidemiology and has nearly disappeared in many countries, the disease never went away. It has instead retreated to the places least equipped to fight it.

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Lake Life Realty hosts Food Truck Tuesdays this summer

  • By Kelly Egan, The Laconia Daily Sun
  • Updated Jul 14, 2026

MOULTONBOROUGH — Lake Like Realty is hosting their annual Food Truck Tuesdays for the summer, a tradition they’ve kept going since 2021.

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New catalog maps all 239 RNA viruses known to infect humans
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New catalog maps all 239 RNA viruses known to infect humans

  • By Talker News
  • Updated Jul 8, 2026

The catalog builds on earlier versions published in 2001 and 2018.

The military traded its flu vaccine mandate for ‘medical freedom’ – an outbreak quickly followed
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The military traded its flu vaccine mandate for ‘medical freedom’ – an outbreak quickly followed

  • Katrine L. Wallace, University of Illinois Chicago
  • Updated Jun 24, 2026

Two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the flu vaccine optional in the military, an outbreak leads several branches of the military to make it mandatory again.

World Cup creates perfect conditions for infectious diseases to spread – here are the biggest threats health experts are watching for
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World Cup creates perfect conditions for infectious diseases to spread – here are the biggest threats health experts are watching for

  • Andrés Henao, University of Colorado Anschutz
  • Jun 7, 2026

Respiratory diseases like measles and flu pose a much bigger threat to public health for the World Cup than does Ebola.

What’s wrong with how US and Uganda plan to stop Ebola spreading
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What’s wrong with how US and Uganda plan to stop Ebola spreading

  • Katrine L. Wallace, University of Illinois Chicago
  • Updated May 29, 2026

Geography may not provide meaningful protection once an outbreak is already underway.

Ebola strain spreading in Congo and Uganda has no approved vaccine
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Ebola strain spreading in Congo and Uganda has no approved vaccine

  • Klinger Soares Faico Filho, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
  • Updated May 19, 2026

Tests for Ebola don’t detect this strain, so it took the WHO extra time to confirm the cause of the outbreak.

From medieval plague ships to hantavirus: How outbreaks at sea helped to shape the international public health system
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From medieval plague ships to hantavirus: How outbreaks at sea helped to shape the international public health system

  • Katrine L. Wallace, University of Illinois Chicago
  • Updated May 15, 2026

To stop the spread of infectious diseases, governments need information and other resources that countries around the globe share through international organizations.

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Two people with NH addresses were aboard cruise ship linked to hantavirus

  • Updated May 11, 2026

The state's health agency says two people with New Hampshire addresses traveled on a cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak…

How the concept of ‘medical freedom’ is reshaping the military’s decades-long stance on the flu vaccine mandate − and endangering troops’ readiness
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How the concept of ‘medical freedom’ is reshaping the military’s decades-long stance on the flu vaccine mandate − and endangering troops’ readiness

  • Katrine L. Wallace, University of Illinois Chicago
  • Apr 28, 2026

The US military helped create the first flu vaccine to keep service members in action – and the logic for requiring vaccination has not changed.

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