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infectious diseases

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Martin Rees: Why challenge prizes can solve our most pressing issues

As the winner of the Longitude prize on antimicrobial resistance is announced, chair of the prize committee Martin Rees, the UK's Astronomer Royal, explains why it pays to reward ideas

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Life

Red squirrels were hosts for leprosy in medieval England

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Environment

Plagues that shook the Roman Empire linked to cold, dry periods

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How measles can do long-lasting damage to children’s immune systems

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Children being treated at a hospital in Beijing, China, on 23 November

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Pneumonia in China: Everything we know so far about mystery illness

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Northern giant petrels fighting over a dead seal pup in South Georgia, South Atlantic Ocean

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Bird flu has reached Antarctica and could have a devastating effect

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Humans

Humans caught more diseases after we domesticated animals

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Chicken in South Africa

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Bird flu now sweeping the world evolved in Europe and Africa

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Superbugs will struggle to evolve resistance to unusual new antibiotic

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World鈥檚 first RSV vaccine approved in the US for older adults

An RSV vaccine has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and should be available to people 60 years and older later this year

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Bird flu may be making foxes and other animals behave in unusual ways

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Norovirus outbreak: Why is the number of cases in England so high?

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Genetic tracking scheme for viruses could warn of dangerous outbreaks

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Many mosquitoes are now insecticide-resistant in Vietnam and Cambodia

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