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Norovirus particles viewed under a microscope (Credit: Getty Images)
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Why some people are resistant to norovirus

By David Cox

Clinician administers virus through nose in UK Covid-19 Human Challenge study (Credit: Imperial College London/Thomas Angus)
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The people purposely being infected with diseases

By Luke Mintz
A health worker preparing a malaria vaccination in Kenya (Credit: Getty Images)
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Why aren't there more vaccines for parasites?

By Christine Ro
Eggs being vaccinated in a lab to incubate a weakened form of the virus (Credit: Getty Images)
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How close is a human vaccine for bird flu?

By India Bourke
Yersinia pestis bacteria through a microscope (Credit: Getty Images)
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How the plague rewired our immune system

By David Cox
A child receives a chickenpox vaccine in Guizhou Province, China (Credit: Getty Images)
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Why aren't chickenpox vaccines universal?

By David Cox
From left-right, drawings of measles, scarlet fever, and smallpox (Credit: Alamy)
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Measles: The virus that causes 'immune amnesia'

By Zaria Gorvett
A woman wearing a mask in New York City in December 2022 (Credit: Getty Images)
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The covert winter wave of Covid-19

By David Cox
Information about the state of Covid-19 infections, deaths and vaccinations are scarce in the disputed region of Western Sahara (Credit: Kang-Chun Cheng)
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North Africa's Covid 'black hole'

By Jacob Kushner with photos by Kang-Chun Cheng in Western Sahara and Morocco
A health worker administering a Covid-19 vaccine in Ecuador, 2022 (Credit: Getty Images)
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Do any Covid jabs work on all variants?

By David Cox
MRI image of the brain (Credit: Alamy)
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What Covid-19 could do to our brains

By David Cox
A lab technician working on a vaccine at Sinovac Biotech in China (Credit: Getty Images)
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The dash for new Covid-19 vaccines

By David Cox
Compulsory vaccination in Jersey City, New Jersey (Credit: Alamy)
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The long history of vaccine mandates

By Christine Ro
An Israeli health worker preparing to administer a booster shot (Credit: Getty Images)
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Do we really need third vaccine doses?

By Zaria Gorvett
Queue of people and vaccine (Credit: Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images)
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Why some people don't want a vaccine

By David Robson
Studying people who show unusual levels of resistance or susceptiblity to Covid-19 may lead to new treatments (Credit: Ernesto Benavides/Getty Images)
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The people with high Covid resistance

By David Cox