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**ADVANCE APRIL 22-23 ** A California Department of Food and Agriculture technician perform tests on chickens for the Avian Influenza viruses in poultry Friday, April 21, 2006, at the Best Live Poultry & Fish store in Sylmar, Calif. The stakes are especially high in California, where a $2.5 billion poultry industry ranks among the top 10 producers nationwide for dinner chicken, turkey and table egg output. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Live poultry markets may be source of bird flu virus in San Francisco wastewater

As health officials try to understand how H5N1 got into Bay Area wastewater, they are pointing to live bird markets. But questions remain.

July 4, 2024

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The coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, shown in purple, infects a cell, colored in green.

COVID-19 Pandemic: News, Links & Resources

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Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) Moussa Faki Mahamat, French Minister for Foreign and European Affairs Stephane Sejourne, French President Emmanuel Macron, Jose Manuel Barroso, former President of the European Commission and former Prime Minister of Portugal, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi, and Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, Britain's Foreign Secretary David Cameron and officials pose during the African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator conference, Thursday, June 20, 2024 in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron is joining some African leaders to kick off a planned $1 billion project to accelerate the rollout of vaccines in Africa, after the coronavirus pandemic bared gaping inequalities in access to them. (Dylan Martinez/Pool via AP)

African and European leaders push for vaccines for Africa after COVID-19 exposed inequalities

June 20, 2024
Motorists line up to take COVID-19 tests at at Long Beach City College-Veterans Memorial Stadium.

Positive test not needed for long COVID diagnosis, experts conclude

June 5, 2024
Syringes with the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19.

Los Angeles could end COVID vaccination rule for city employees

June 11, 2024
Aedes aegypti is commonly known as the yellow fever mosquito because it can transmits the tropical diseases, dengue and zika. CDC photo

Newsom boosted California’s public health spending during COVID. Now he wants to cut it

May 17, 2024
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Column: Democrats show that they’re no better than Trump in allowing politics to interfere with science

May 17, 2024
Fullerton, CA - February 15: Nurse Celina Mande attends to coronavirus patient Joseph Trejo who is on ventilator. Patty Trejo arranged a mariachi band plays "La mano de Dios" (The Hand of God), the favorite song of her husband Joseph Trejo who is on ventilator at St. Jude Medical Center on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021 in Fullerton, CA.(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Despite its ‘nothingburger’ reputation, COVID-19 remains deadlier than the flu

May 15, 2024
FILE - An employee takes the fingerprints of a woman who died from the new coronavirus before her remains are cremated at La Recoleta crematorium in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, June 27, 2020. Countries are still struggling to come up with an agreed-upon plan for how the world might respond to the next global outbreak. A ninth and final round of talks involving governments, advocacy groups and others to finalize a “pandemic treaty” is scheduled to end Friday, May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

Countries struggle to draft ‘pandemic treaty’ to avoid mistakes made during COVID

May 11, 2024
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Do zinc products really help shorten a cold? It’s hard to say

May 10, 2024
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Column: How the GOP — with Democratic Party connivance — has undermined a crucial effort to avert the next pandemic

May 2, 2024
The headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

WHO overturns dogma on airborne disease spread. The CDC might not act on it

May 1, 2024

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