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Patients are treated at an Army ward in Kansas during the influenza epidemic of 1918. About 675,000 Americans died of the flu known as "la grippe." NYPL/Science Source/Getty Images hide caption
Thursday
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Wednesday
Azithromycin tablets. Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
"They have forgotten us ... and many are still really suffering," says Ebola survivor Haja Bah. James Courtright for NPR hide caption
Tuesday
Jatmin carries a freshly-speared octopus back to his boat. James Morgan hide caption
The wreckage of ambulances outside a makeshift hospital used by rebel fighters in Aleppo. George Ourfalian/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Monday
Barkatullah smiles and rests on a crutch and grips his walker during a physical therapy session at Emergency War and Trauma Hospital in Kabul. The 13-year-old lost his right arm and leg in an explosion. He practices standing on the walker 30 seconds at a time. Ivan Armando Flores for NPR hide caption
Saturday
Didier Kassai uses comics to "transmit a message." His father opposed to a career in art until Kassai began earning money for his drawings. Here he sits in his office in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic. Cassandra Vinograd for NPR hide caption
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A man sifts through piles of discarded TVs and other electronic waste in a dump site in Nigeria. Kristian Buus/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
Consolata Agunga goes door-to-door as a community health worker, a demanding volunteer job. "It is God who gives me the strength," she says. She is also a small-scale farmer, growing vegetables for her family. Marc Silver/NPR hide caption
Wednesday
A child is tested for HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa. A single injection of antibodies that target HIV is being developed and analyzed. Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images hide caption
Tuesday
A mosquito's antenna responds to odors. Scientists are trying to figure out how the malaria parasite might trigger a change in body odor that draws in mosquitoes that carry the disease, like the Anopheles skeeter pictured above. BSIP/UIG/Getty Images hide caption
South African comic Loyiso Madinga in Newtown, Johannesburg. Nyamekela Nhlabatsi hide caption