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Amish kids were dying mysteriously. Mayo scientists solved it. But can they treat it?

Amish kids were dying mysteriously. Mayo scientists solved it. But can they treat it?

Young, healthy Amish children were dying unexpectedly across the country. It took Mayo researchers more than a decade to figure out why — and now, they’re trying to find a treatment.
by Catharine Richert

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Fear and misinformation spread alongside COVID-19, the new, deadly strain of coronavirus

Fear and misinformation spread alongside COVID-19, the new, deadly strain of coronavirus

Over 71,000 people across the globe have been infected with COVID-19, the new, deadly strain of coronavirus. Two physicians joined MPR News to help sort fact from fiction Monday morning at 9.
by Kerri Miller and Marcheta Fornoff

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Fact-checking 'Contagion': In wake of coronavirus, the 2011 movie is trending

Fact-checking 'Contagion': In wake of coronavirus, the 2011 movie is trending

NPR asked epidemiologists and doctors to assess the science in the 2011 movie, in which the character played by Gwyneth Paltrow starts a global pandemic. Spoiler alert: The movie does a pretty good job.
by Fran Kritz

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5 years after Indiana's historic HIV outbreak, many rural places remain at risk

5 years after Indiana's historic HIV outbreak, many rural places remain at risk

Fewer than a third of the 220 counties deemed by the federal government as vulnerable to similar outbreaks have active syringe exchange programs, which make clean needles available to drug users and have been found to reduce the spread of HIV and hepatitis C.
by Laura Ungar

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Halfway through U.S. quarantines, two women describe 'surreal,' lonely waiting

Halfway through U.S. quarantines, two women describe 'surreal,' lonely waiting

A New Orleans law professor and a New Jersey financial analyst are waiting for their stints in the first federal quarantine in a half-century to end. Here's a glimpse of their daily lives.
by Rob Stein

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U.S. to evacuate Americans from quarantined cruise ship in Japan

U.S. to evacuate Americans from quarantined cruise ship in Japan

The State Department informed U.S. citizens aboard the quarantined ship that it would send a charter plane to remove them. This comes as 67 more COVID-19 cases were identified on the ship.
by The Associated Press and Wynne Davis

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Amid coronavirus fears, a second wave of flu hits U.S. kids

Amid coronavirus fears, a second wave of flu hits U.S. kids

The number of child deaths and the hospitalization rate for youngsters nationwide are the highest seen at this point in any season since the severe flu outbreak of 2009-10, health officials said Friday. And the wave is expected to keep going for weeks.
by The Associated Press

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Senate panel approves emergency insulin bill

Senate panel approves emergency insulin bill

The Senate plan would provide access to insulin for Minnesotans who can’t afford it. The partially subsidized program would require drug manufacturers to provide insulin to income-eligible participants at no cost. But those patients would need to pay a $75 copay for a 30-day supply.
by Tim Pugmire

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