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SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA – JUNE 17: (RUSSIA OUT) Russian President Vladimir Putin talks at the plenary session during the Saint Petersburg Economic Forum SPIEF 2022, on June17, 2022 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Most Western business executives and leaders will be missing from the Russia’s annual economic forum amid harsh sanctions against Russian after the country’s military invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)

Putin uses Mark Twain misquote to address reports about his health: ‘The rumors about my death were greatly exaggerated’

TANGERANG, INDONESIA – MAY 15: Health officer uses a thermal head to detect a monkeypox virus on arriving passengers at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang near Jakarta, Indonesia on May 15, 2019. Monkeypox is an infectious disease by monkeypox virus endemic from parts of Central and Westerns Africa that make humans lesions, fever, muscle aches, and chills.

The Americas’ health watchdog just went on emergency alert over the monkeypox outbreak

Lymphocytes, computer artwork. T- and B-lymphocytes are part of the immune system. B cells mature in bone marrow and are responsible for humoral immunity; they operate by recognising a specific site (antigen) on the surface of a pathogen or foreign object, which they bind to before producing antibodies to destroy that antigen. T cells mature in the thymus and are involved in cell-mediated immunity, which does not rely on antibodies to fight antigens, but rather the activation of other immune cells. Interaction between B and T cells can increase B cell antibody production.

How long is your COVID vaccine good for? You can soon find out, thanks to a new test that informs patients of their immunity’s ‘magnitude and duration’

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 30: A woman wearing a mask rides a bicycle near the Pepsi Cola sign at Gantry Plaza State Park, Long Island City on May 30, 2020 in New York City. Government guidelines encourage wearing a mask in public with strong social distancing as all 50 US states have begun to slowly reopen after weeks of stay-at-home measures to control the spread of COVID-19.

Move over, ‘stealth Omicron.’ A new COVID subvariant appears to be taking over in the U.S.

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gives a press conference on December 20, 2021 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva. – The World Health Organization chief called for the world to pull together and make the difficult decisions needed to end the Covid-19 pandemic within the next year. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

WHO to convene emergency committee on monkeypox: ‘It’s now clear there is an unusual situation’

Artificial intelligence may be the only way researchers can solve the perplexing puzzle of long COVID. It’s already categorizing patients and even identifying them

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO – JAN 8, 2022: Passengers queue to check their luggage before boarding their flight at Mexico City International Airport. Hundreds of passengers have been left stranded by flight delays due to new protocols for the new Omicrom variant. On January 8, 2022 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo credit should read Luis Barron / Eyepix Group/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Travelers to the U.S. no longer have to test for COVID, the CDC says. Its reason: The pandemic ‘has now shifted to a new phase’

Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser of Allianz SE, listens during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore, on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. The New Economy Forum, organized by Bloomberg Media Group, a division of Bloomberg LP, aims to bring together leaders from public and private sectors to find solutions to the world’s greatest challenges. Photographer: Wei Leng Tay/Bloomberg via Getty Images

‘We’re now in a period of stagflation’ that could devolve into recession, top economist Mohamed El-Erian says

Google engineer Blake Lemoine

Google employee reportedly put on leave after claiming chatbot became sentient, similar to a ‘kid that happened to know physics’

Lawrence H. “Larry” Summers, former U.S. Treasury secretary, speaks during the Skybridge Alternatives (SALT) conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Wednesday, May 11, 2016. The SALT Conference facilitates balanced discussions and debates on macroeconomic trends, geopolitical events, and alternative investment opportunities within the context of a dynamic global economy. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Larry Summers sees likely U.S. recession in next 2 years, says GOP support of Jan. 6 Capitol riot worsens inflation

Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, speaks during the Skybridge Alternatives (SALT) conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Wednesday, May 17, 2017. The SALT Conference facilitates balanced discussions and debates on macro-economic trends, geo-political events and alternative investment opportunities for the year ahead. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Fed has a ‘decent chance’ of a ‘soft-ish landing’ that averts full-on recession, Bernanke says

A woman is seen smoking a cigarette in central Warsaw, Poland on March 9, 2020. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Tobacco companies will be forced to reduce nicotine in U.S. cigarettes until they’re non-addictive, if the Biden administration has its way: report

KYIV, UKRAINE – AUGUST 24, 2021 – MiG-29 air superiority fighters (L) spread smoke in the colors of the National flag of Ukraine to conclude the solemn military parade on the 30th anniversary of Ukrainian Independence, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine (Photo credit should read Yevhen Liubimov/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Grassroots Ukrainian campaign to ‘buy me a fighter jet’ struggling to raise funds: ‘It’s not just crazy stuff’

Abstract illustration of girl with blue and green bubbles above head.

24 years ago a virus left me with a Long COVID-like condition. What life is like as a working mom dealing with the fallout

Digitally-colorized electron microscopic (EM) image depicting a monkeypox virion (virus particle), obtained from a clinical sample associated with a 2003 prairie dog outbreak, published June 6, 2022. The image depicts a thin section image from a human skin sample. On the left are mature, oval-shaped virus particles, and on the right are the crescents and spherical particles of immature virions. Courtesy CDC/Goldsmith at al.

‘All Americans should get educated about this disease’: Testing must increase to bring U.S. monkeypox outbreak under control, health officials say