An image of the Ebola virus taken by an electron microscope. Scott Camazine/Getty Images/Science Source hide caption
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Monday
Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) and Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones) try to evade a drone in Boboli Gardens in Inferno. Jonathan Prime/Sony PIctures hide caption
Wednesday
Men protesting in support of more money for AIDS research marched down Fifth Avenue during the 14th annual Lesbian and Gay Pride parade in New York in 1983. Mario Suriani/AP hide caption
Researchers Clear 'Patient Zero' From AIDS Origin Story
Saturday
An Indian pedestrian checks his mobile phone in front of an advertisement for a burger of a fast-food giant in Mumbai, India. Fast food and highly processed foods and sodas are increasingly becoming more popular around the world, one of the main reasons for increasing rates of overweight and obesity. Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Friday
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, have a new goal: cure, manage or eradicate all disease by the end of this century. And they're putting up $3 billion. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption
Thursday
Rebecca Richards-Kortum is a "genius grant" winner with a very busy schedule. The engineering professor, who encourages students to come up with medical devices that will be valuable in the developing world, is the mother of six and a marathon runner. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation hide caption
'Genius Grant' Winner Is A Genius At Inspiring Students
Wednesday
Chickens at a poultry farm in Hefei, eastern China. Antibiotics are often used to keep them healthy in densely packed quarters. STR/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
U.N. Pledges To Fight Antibiotic Resistance In Historic Agreement
Wednesday
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Tuesday
A vampire bat's fangs are so sharp that victims hardly notice when the animal slices through their skin and starts drinking blood. Bruce Dale/National Geographic/Getty Images hide caption
Sunday
An Afghan boy carries a sheep on his shoulder at a livestock market on September 22, 2015, just ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in Kabul. Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Thursday
A dumping ground for old medical equipment in Malawi. Stephen Rudy/Courtesy of Gradian Health hide caption
Sunday
This illustration depicts a yellow fever victim in a Jefferson Street home in Memphis. It's from a series of images entitled "The Great Yellow Fever Scourge — Incidents Of Its Horrors In The Most Fatal District Of The Southern States." Bettmann Archive hide caption
Thursday
These are insect cells infected with the Guaico Culex virus. The different colors denote cells infected with different pieces of the virus. Only the brown-colored cells are infectious, because they contain the complete virus. Michael Lindquist/Cell Press hide caption
Wednesday
The countries with the tallest and shortest 18-year-old men and women in the world, according to a new study. Leif Parsons for NPR hide caption
Thursday
Women from a traditional sea-harvesting community fish in Mozambique. Michael D. Kock/Nature hide caption