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Rapid rise in monkeypox spurs call for better tests, more vaccine doses

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
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The science behind President Biden’s ‘rebound COVID’

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
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Northestern’s Life Sciences Testing Center is helping a Boston biotech company develop best practices for monkeypox testing

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
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The teeny, tiny ticks that cause the most Lyme disease are out

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
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Want to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Boston? Northeastern researchers have built a database

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by Tanner Stening
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Northeastern researchers use machine learning to identify US patients with long COVID

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by Tanner Stening
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Parents who forego COVID-19 vaccine for their children are less likely to seek information on it, study shows

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by Tanner Stening
This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Monkeypox, a disease that rarely appears outside Africa, has been identified by European and American health authorities in recent days.
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Experts weigh in: Is monkeypox the next COVID-19? Here’s what we know.

by Ian Thomsen
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Your Google searches and Tweets might help forecast the next disease outbreak

by Eva Botkin-Kowacki
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Do at-home COVID-19 tests expire?

by Molly Callahan
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Are we out of the pandemic? What Fauci meant by ‘a transitional phase’

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by Tanner Stening
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Contracting COVID-19 might increase your risk of Type 1 diabetes

by Eva Botkin-Kowacki