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An Anopheles stephensi mosquito is obtaining a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis. Note the droplet of blood being expelled from the abdomen after having engorged itself on its host’s blood. This mosquito is a known malarial vector with a distribution that ranges from Egypt all the way to China.

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Researchers create an effective RNA vaccine for malaria

Tech similar to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines might prevent one of the world's deadliest diseases

Marnie Willman
a monkey crouched on a tree branch

Photo by Berend Leupen on Unsplash 

Viruses can 'spill back' into wildlife populations, increasing the risk of disease in humans

Using yellow fever as a case study, researchers examined whether chikungunya, Zika, and dengue could become established in the Neotropics

Alejandro Rossi
Woman behind closing subway doors

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Why a coronavirus quarantine in the US is a bad idea

Broad, sweeping restrictions could do more harm than good

Sara May Bergstresser
Two people holding hands.

Photo by Matheus Ferrero on Unsplash

Christina Marvin

Photo by Dimitri Karastelev on Unsplash

Maddie Bender
people on a train wearing flu masks

Eneas De Troya on Wikimedia Commons

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The 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak is serious, but we are getting the response to it right

In 2002, the SARS outbreak surprised the world. The global response to 2019-nCoV has taken that lesson to heart

Mackenzie Thornbury

HIV uses camouflage to hide from cell defenses

Viruses are fighting an evolutionary arms race in our DNA

Maya Emmons-Bell