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Jun 19

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Why the race to stop the next flu outbreak starts at state fairs and the beach

By William Brangham, Jason Kane

Public health officials agree the constantly mutating influenza virus has the potential to cause a major outbreak and a deadly global crisis. For the second part of the NewsHour’s series on preparing for such a pandemic, we examine how research…

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Jun 16

Summer camp is newest front in battle with measles outbreak

By Michael Hill, Associated Press

Vaccinations have been made mandatory this summer for campers and staff in several counties north of New York City that annually fill up with kids from the Orthodox Jewish communities that have been hit hardest by measles.

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Apr 10

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Amid measles outbreak, NYC health officials strive to promote vaccination, dispel myths

The U.S. is battling one of the largest outbreaks of measles in decades, with 465 cases confirmed nationwide and 78 new cases in the last week alone. New York City alone has 285 confirmed cases since last fall. Dr. Oxiris…

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Nov 14

Watch 5:47
What’s the truth about Zika virus in post-hurricane Puerto Rico?

By Beth Murphy

At the Zika epidemic's 2016 height, 10 percent of Puerto Rican women were testing positive for the disease. But when Hurricane Maria slammed the island in September 2017, crippling its health care system, the focus shifted to hurricane recovery, and…

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Nov 12

Watch 6:21
In Liberia, survivors of Ebola and civil war now struggle with mental illness

By Molly Knight Raskin

In 2014, an Ebola outbreak ravaged three West African countries. Now many of the same communities are facing a new health struggle: mental illness. In rural Liberia, diseases such as depression and schizophrenia are often considered a “curse” and relegated…

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Oct 06

Flu season is coming. If you live in a large city, it may stretch longer than elsewhere, study says

By Helen Branswell, STAT

The length of the flu season may vary depending on where you live, with large cities enduring longer periods of transmission and smaller cities experiencing shorter, but more explosive, spread, a new study suggests…

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Sep 11

Watch 9:12
Urban wildfires bring lingering worries about what’s in the ash and air

By Cat Wise

For weeks, smoky, unhealthy air from large wildfires has plagued much of the West Coast and beyond. What's the public health impact of an increase of urban wildfires, in which homes and other structures burn? Special correspondent Cat Wise meets…

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Sep 05

What’s happened since California let fewer families reject vaccines

By Laura Santhanam

All 50 states require vaccinations for students entering public school. But the vast majority also give families the ability to opt out of those vaccinations for personal or religious reasons.

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Jun 21

New study gives broader look into how police killings affect black Americans’ mental health

By Joshua Barajas

A new study published today shows how police killings affect the mental health of black Americans even if they aren’t in close relationships with the people killed.

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Jun 14

Suicide rate rising fastest among women, CDC says

By Laura Santhanam

Nearly 45,000 people died as a result of suicide in 2016, up 30 percent from the number of deaths by suicide in 2000, the CDC reported. This latest study explores suicide prevalence across demographics, including gender and age.

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