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Young friends can expose you to important microbes

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Babies should mix with other children to lower leukaemia risk

Cancer researcher Mel Greaves has suggested that a lack of exposure to microbes in a baby’s first year can make children more likely to get a form of leukaemia

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Measles

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Measles cases in England are up 65 per cent on last year

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A dog licking a person's hand

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Gross alert: You can get a urinary tract infection from your dog

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A female mosquito

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Catching malaria makes you smell more attractive to mosquitoes

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child plays with shaped blocks

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Infections during pregnancy affect a child's brain function

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Newly-discovered fungi turn luckless ants into kamikaze zombies

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Newly-discovered fungi turn luckless ants into kamikaze zombies

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Source of world’s biggest listeria outbreak still unknown

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Source of world’s biggest listeria outbreak still unknown

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A hospital full of people with flu

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Pandemics past: Seven times flu has become a mass killer

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flu virus

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The epidemic on the way: Why winter flu is so bad this year

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racks of eggs

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

This year’s flu jab is working, but not working well – throwing a spotlight on the commercial and other factors that prevent us developing something better

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

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Stopping the spread: What you can do to prevent flu

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Why a nasty surprise lurks 100 years on from the lethal 1918 flu

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Your body fat may be protecting you against infections

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