The next pandemic flu virus could come from pigs, but are we monitoring their health closely enough? Matthias Rietschel/APN hide caption
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A boy with symptoms of cholera waits for treatment at the St. Catherine hospital in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince on Nov. 10, 2010. Cholera has sickened more than 91,000 Haitians and killed more than 2,000. Ramon Espinosa/AP hide caption
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Two sisters rest under a mosquito net during a July monsoon rain in Prey Mong kol village in Cambodia's Pailin province. Paula Bronstein/Getty Images AsiaPac hide caption
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Children light candles to observe India's first National Mental Health Awareness Day, in New Delhi on Aug. 6. Anupam Nath/AP hide caption
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A man looks over a room of cholera victims in Port au Prince, Haiti, Dec. 10. David Gilkey/NPR hide caption
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Bacteria like these cause tuberculosis. CDC hide caption
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A 10-year-old Somali boy being treated for meningitis in May 2009 at a makeshift clinic in Mogadishu. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP hide caption
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Cajuste Yanique lies on a cot while being treated Monday for cholera in a treatment facility in Cabaret, Haiti. Haitian officials say the disease has killed more than 1,300 people since the outbreak began last month and has been detected in eight of Haiti's 10 provinces. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption