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Birds and breezes spread diseases

Mathematical "power law" helps predict how fast diseases spread and suggests time is short for saving the planet's wheat

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Are cavers spreading lethal bat disease?

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Resistant wheat to tackle destructive fungus

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Resistant wheat to tackle destructive fungus

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Disease maps can turn a crisis around

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Disease maps can turn a crisis around

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Columbus innocent over anthrax in the Americas

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Columbus innocent over anthrax in the Americas

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Society's vital networks prone to 'explosive' changes

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Society's vital networks prone to 'explosive' changes

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Bird flu mix-up could have spelled disaster

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Drug-resistant gonorrhoea on the rise

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Hidden weakness could yield universal flu vaccine

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Are we about to eliminate AIDS?

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Are we about to eliminate AIDS?

Astonishingly, we could use existing drugs to wipe out HIV, just as we did smallpox. So what's holding us back? 51¶¯Âþ investigates

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How your friends' friends can affect your mood

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Struggle over bird flu samples drags on

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Cholera epidemic hits crumbling Zimbabwe

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Safer sex in a pill

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