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STORIES OF LIFE IN A CHANGING WORLD

Infectious Disease

Tuesday

Malaria parasites, spread by a mosquito's bite, have started to adapt so the go-to drugs won't knock them out. Daniel Heuclin/Nature Picture Li/Getty Images/Nature Picture Libr hide caption

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An Ebola burial team dons protective clothing before collecting the body of a woman who'd died from the virus in her home in a suburb of Monrovia, Liberia's capital. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption

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A Gang Killed A Guy With Ebola. Will They Agree To Be Quarantined?

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Samples from this 17th century Lithuanian mummy were found to house samples of variola, the virus that causes smallpox. Kiril Cachovski/Lithuanian Mummy Project hide caption

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A Mummy's DNA May Help Solve The Mystery Of The Origins Of Smallpox

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Emmie de Wit, who usually works in a Biosafety Level 4 Lab, spent time in less secure labs in Liberia during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Above, she prepares to test Ebola patient blood samples. Courtesy of NIAID hide caption

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, pictured during a 2014 visit to Haiti to inaugurate a sanitation campaign. On Thursday, he issued an apology that Haitians have been demanding for six years. Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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