Children get their diphtheria inoculation in 1944. Kurt Hutton/Getty Images hide caption
Infectious Disease : Goats and Soda Infectious Disease
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STORIES OF LIFE IN A CHANGING WORLDInfectious Disease
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A girl is vaccinated against dengue as part of a public immunization program for children in the Philippines. The program was suspended after the company raised safety concerns about the vaccination. Dondi Tawatao/Getty Images hide caption
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Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, in the blue T-shirt on the roof, helps build a home for a grandmother supported by his HIV/AIDS nonprofit in rural Uganda. Matt Stauble hide caption
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A municipal worker sprays disinfectant during the clean-up of a market in Madagascar's Anosibe district — a measure to fight the outbreak of bubonic plague, which can be spread by a flea bite. RIJASOLO/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Rat traps are a weapon behind used to fight the plague in Madagascar, since the rodents carry the disease. But getting rid of all the rats would be difficult — and without rats, plague-infected fleas could then turn to humans for a blood meal. RIJASOLO/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Workers spray to kill fleas in a public school in Antananarivo, Madagascar's capital. A bite from an infected flea can spread the plague, which has stricken 157 people in the island nation since August. Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption
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Twins Heloisa (left) and Heloa Barbosa, both born with microcephaly, had a one-year birthday party on April 16 in Areia, Brazil. Their mother says she contracted the Zika virus during pregnancy. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
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This computer-generated image shows the structure of the hepatitis B virus. Science Picture Co/Science Picture Co hide caption
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A newly detected type of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria (in red) has acquired genes that make it more deadly. Science Source hide caption
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Probiotic Bacteria Could Protect Newborns From Deadly Infection
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A worker fogs a neighborhood on the outskirts of Colombo in Sri Lanka in an effort to ward off mosquitoes. The country is facing an outbreak of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease. Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Maria Carolina Silva Flor and Joselito Alves dos Santos with their 18-month-old daughter, Maria Gabriela Silva Alves. The baby was born with Zika syndrome. Amanda Klasing hide caption
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Ticks of the genus Hyalomma, pictured here, are principally responsible for passing on Crimea-Congo hemorrhagic fever to humans. Adam Cuerden hide caption
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The scene after a mortar attack on the southern city of Taez. Ahmad Al-Basha/Getty Images hide caption