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  • Monkeypox Infection under a microscopeHealth

    ‘Short-range’ airborne monkeypox transmission is possible, the WHO says as it calls for caution in large gatherings

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  • CASCAIS, PORTUGAL – AUGUST 18: A mask-clad beachgoer walks by a COVID-19 warning sign on the promenade above Praia da Duquesa on a sunny and warm Summer day during the coronavirus pandemic on August 18, 2021 in Cascais, Portugal. Although restrictions are being lifted in steps from August 01 tourism and everyday activities are yet to reach pre pandemic levels in Portugal, where 17 more deaths and 2,983 new cases related to COVID-19 were recorded in the last 24 hours. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)Health

    Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5 are unlikely to cause a new summer COVID wave. But they’ll extend the current wave, experts say

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  • Success

    This summer will decide remote work’s fate. A White House–predicted COVID wave this fall could render it moot

    By Erin Prater and Nick Lichtenberg
  • Medical syringes and a bottle are seen with ‘Monkeypox’ sign and monkeypox illustrative model displayed on a screen in the background in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on May 26, 2022. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Health

    The U.S. has tens of thousands of monkeypox vaccines at the ready—and it’s set to spend an extra $180 million on 13 million doses of freeze-dried vaccine

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  • Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona, Close-up of woman hands pouring sugar into a coffee.Life

    Drinking plain or sugar-sweetened coffee may lower your risk of death, a new study found. But don’t swear off artificial sweeteners just yet

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  • Young hispanic woman holding keys of new home depressed and worry for distress, crying angry and afraid. sad expression.Personal Finance

    The housing market is making most millennial home shoppers burst into tears, survey finds: ‘It’s deeply personal and it’s emotional’

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  • An hologram of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is projected on the Gold State Coach during the Platinum Pageant in London on June 5, 2022 as part of Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee celebrations. – The curtain comes down on four days of momentous nationwide celebrations to honour Queen Elizabeth II’s historic Platinum Jubilee with a day-long pageant lauding the 96-year-old monarch’s record seven decades on the throne. (Photo by Frank Augstein / POOL / AFP) (Photo by FRANK AUGSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

    The Queen waved Sunday during her Platinum Jubilee celebration—but not from her gold state coach. That was a hologram

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  • Under a microscope magnification of 50X, this image depicted a section of skin tissue, harvested from a lesion on the skin of a monkey, that had been infected with monkeypox virus, 1968. Courtesy CDC. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)Health

    ‘Archaic tools that just don’t help us get the job done’: Doctors warn a lack of reporting infrastructure makes the U.S. vulnerable to the next outbreak

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  • Man on a video call as he works from homeHealth

    Long COVID is a new disability affecting millions of workers—and a ‘moment of essential innovation’ for employers, one lawyer contends

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  • Houston, TX – MARCH 7: Liza Fisher works out with resistance bands with exercise physiologist Eugene Bramble during a therapy session at the TIRR Memorial Hermann Outpatient Rehabilitation facility in Houston, Texas on March 7, 2022.Health

    Long COVID symptoms: What we know—and don’t know—about the mysterious illness that could affect up to 80% of COVID survivors

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  • Under a microscope magnification of 500X, this image depicted a section of skin tissue, harvested from a lesion on the skin of a monkey, that had been infected with monkeypox virus, 1968. Courtesy CDC. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)Health

    There are now at least 2 newly identified, ‘genetically distinct’ monkeypox strains, with cases in 11 states, CDC says

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  • SHANGHAI, CHINA – MAY 26: The last pet dog leaves a “makeshift shelter for animals” on May 26, 2022 in Shanghai, China. All of pets were discharged from the temporary shelter Thursday. The makeshift shelter was set up to receive pets whose owners were infected with COVID-19.Health

    Trained dogs may better detect COVID than rapid tests, new study finds

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  • Abstract photo of rows of used Lateral Flow Tests - several showing positive resultsHealth

    The 5 types of long COVID, according to one health expert

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  • A woman squeezing the sample liquid on a test strip while carrying out a Covid-19 rapid self test at home.Health

    Do I have Long COVID? As many as 23 million Americans want to know, as more than 200 symptoms emerge

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  • PARIS, FRANCE – MAY 28: Police spray tear gas at Liverpool fans outside the stadium as they queue prior to the UEFA Champions League final match between Liverpool FC and Real Madrid at Stade de France on May 28, 2022 in Paris, France. (Photo by Matthias Hangst/Getty Images)

    UEFA Champions League delayed 30 minutes as organizers blame Liverpool fans in ominous echo of past tragedies: ‘Completely chaotic’

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