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Health

We may finally be able to beat the common cold with a new drug

An experimental drug stops common cold viruses from building their protective outer armour, preventing them from replicating and spreading

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Hope for herpes vaccine after it wipes out virus in monkeys

Health

Hope for herpes vaccine after it wipes out virus in monkeys

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Bacteria-killing nanofibres could make clothes that stop disease

Physics

Bacteria-killing nanofibres could make clothes that stop disease

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Leopards that live in cities are protecting people from rabies

Life

Leopards that live in cities are protecting people from rabies

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Bats spread Ebola because they’ve evolved not to fight viruses

Life

Bats spread Ebola because they’ve evolved not to fight viruses

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Chickens for sale

Health

Flu is evolving in new and unpredictable ways in China’s poultry

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Chimps are now dying of the common cold and they are all at risk

Earth

Chimps are now dying of the common cold and they are all at risk

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Health

Jab in the dark: Why we don’t have a universal flu vaccine

Features

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Health

Waiting for the big one: A new flu pandemic is a matter of time

Features

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Life

It's too easy for bioterrorists to access dangerous research

The systems designed to stop potentially risky research being published and used to make weapons of terror have “multiple shortcomings”, warns US report

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Life

Antarctic mystery microbe could tell us where viruses came from

News

Health

Eradicating rabies: Why man's best friend holds the key

Features

Health

Why bird flu risk is like the Grenfell Tower tragedy

Leader

Health

A bird flu pandemic looms but the US is holding back the fight

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