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A woodcut from the 1800s, <em>Healing the Lepers</em>, depicts the common tableau of Jesus healing a leper as his disciples look on.

Scientists Go Medieval To Solve Ancient Leprosy Puzzle

Looking for clues to to modern-day leprosy, scientists dig up a 500-year-old mass grave and scan for ancient strains of bacteria in human remains. They find that the bacteria that cause leprosy haven't changed, humans have.
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Boys at the L'Ecole Les Freres Clement elementary school in Jacmel, Haiti, line up to take deworming pills that protect against elephantiasis.

Haiti Moves A Step Closer Toward Eradicating Elephantiasis

Despite the daunting health challenges Haiti faces, the country has achieved a major step toward eliminating the parasitic infection, which causes severe swelling of the legs. Haiti is on track to wipe out the disease within four years, scientists say.
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Haiti Moves A Step Closer Toward Eradicating Elephantiasis

The country is now on track to wipe out the condition within four years, scientists say.
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A public health poster from 1952 encourages Americans to get checked for sexually transmitted diseases. Gonorrhea is the second-most-common sexually transmitted disease in the U.S., with more than 300,000 cases reported in 2011.

Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Rises In Great Britain

Gonorrhea cases resistant to one of the last effective drugs are on the rise globally.
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Men outside a hospital in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, wear surgical masks as a precaution against infection with a coronavirus.

Triple Threat: Middle East Respiratory Virus And 2 Bird Flus

Three viruses have devastating potential, but many past pandemic warnings haven't materialized.
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Students paste red ribbons on a window to mark World AIDS Day in Nanjing, China, in 2006. Although many infectious diseases have declined in the country, the number of new HIV cases nearly quadrupled between 2007 and 2011.

As China Gets Richer, First World Diseases Take Hold

As China beats back the plagues of poverty, it faces many health problems found in the U.S.
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A vendor weighs a live chicken at the Kowloon City Market in Hong Kong last April. After closing live poultry shops in many cities around China, the rate of new H7N9 infections sharply declined.

How Nature Builds A Pandemic Flu Virus

A look at the worst pandemics offers clues to whether China's latest bird flu is a global threat.
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Faces Of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis strains are emerging around the world that take years and thousands of dollars to cure
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Love In The Time Of TB: A Young Family Fights An Ancient Foe

A young man's deadly form of tuberculosis is keeping him from his wife and newborn son.
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Middle East Coronavirus Shows Up In Italy

Both Italian patients are close contacts of someone who traveled to Jordan recently.
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A Boston Family's Struggle With TB Reveals A Stubborn Foe

Tuberculosis cut a deadly swath through a Boston family despite public health efforts to stop it.
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Nodding Syndrome: A Devastating Medical Mystery In Uganda

Epidemiologists don't know what causes the disease, and treatment is left largely to Ugandans.
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After Years Of War, Ugandan Children Face New Deadly Threat

The strange and debilitating illness nodding syndrome affects only children in parts of Africa.
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Middle East Coronavirus Called 'Threat To The Entire World'

The fatality rate for confirmed infections with the virus has been more than 50 percent.
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Bird Flu Shrugs Off Tamiflu In 'Concerning' Development

Doctors in China found that the H7N9 virus became resistant to an antiviral drug.
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Researchers Find Bird Flu Is Contagious Among Ferrets

With news of the mammals' susceptibility, scientists worry the virus could become more dangerous.
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Could African Crops Be Improved With Private Biotech Data?

A scientist asked the world's biggest life sciences companies to share information on 100 crops.
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Scientists Go Medieval To Solve Ancient Leprosy Puzzle

Haiti Moves A Step Closer Toward Eradicating Elephantiasis

Haiti Moves A Step Closer Toward Eradicating Elephantiasis

Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Rises In Great Britain

Triple Threat: Middle East Respiratory Virus And 2 Bird Flus

As China Gets Richer, First World Diseases Take Hold

How Nature Builds A Pandemic Flu Virus

Faces Of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Love In The Time Of TB: A Young Family Fights An Ancient Foe

Middle East Coronavirus Shows Up In Italy

A Boston Family's Struggle With TB Reveals A Stubborn Foe

Nodding Syndrome: A Devastating Medical Mystery In Uganda

After Years Of War, Ugandan Children Face New Deadly Threat

Middle East Coronavirus Called 'Threat To The Entire World'

Bird Flu Shrugs Off Tamiflu In 'Concerning' Development

Researchers Find Bird Flu Is Contagious Among Ferrets

Could African Crops Be Improved With Private Biotech Data?

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