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  • A doctor collects an participant's to test during clinical trials attempting to stop the rare Bundibugyo virus, amidst a deadly Ebola outbreak, in Rwampara Hospital in Ituri, Congo, on Thursday, Oct. 1.
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  • A bubonic plague smear, prepared from a lymph removed from an adenopathic lymph node of a plague patient, demonstrates the presence of the Yersinia pestis bacteria that causes the plague, in this undated photo.
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Getty Images
    What is pneumonic plague and how dangerous is it?
  • A measles alert sign hangs outside the entrance to the Cohen Children's Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, U.S., March 14, 2025.
    Shannon Stapleton/Reuters/File
    New York declares first US measles disaster emergency since 2025 surge
  • A woman putting on compression socks for varicose veins.
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    These compression socks help relieve the aching and swelling of varicose veins
  • A doctor collects an participant's to test during clinical trials attempting to stop the rare Bundibugyo virus, amidst a deadly Ebola outbreak, in Rwampara Hospital in Ituri, Congo, on Thursday, Oct. 1.
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    Inside the study for a remedy to fight Congo’s deadliest Ebola outbreak
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  • This artist’s concept depicts the young Beta Pictoris planetary system with the newly discovered giant exoplanet; Beta Pictoris d; at the right. Beta Pictoris c circles closest to the star (left in this artist’s concept); Beta Pictoris b follows on a wider orbit; and the newly discovered Beta Pictoris d lies farther out; just inside the debris disk’s inner edge. In this artist’s concept; the planets are shown at their correct relative orbital distances; but the planets themselves have been enlarged and are not to scale relative to their orbits.
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  • A bubonic plague smear, prepared from a lymph removed from an adenopathic lymph node of a plague patient, demonstrates the presence of the Yersinia pestis bacteria that causes the plague, in this undated photo.
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Getty Images
    What is pneumonic plague and how dangerous is it?
  • A measles alert sign hangs outside the entrance to the Cohen Children's Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, U.S., March 14, 2025.
    Shannon Stapleton/Reuters/File
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