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Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some of the…

A large measles outbreak in Texas that has affected 762 people has now ended, according to an announcement Monday by the Texas Department of State Health…

The “worst cholera outbreak in years” has killed at least 40 people in the last week in Sudan, according to the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières.Overwhelmed…

August 10, 20253 min readHow the New Chikungunya Virus Outbreak in China Could Reach the U.S.Experts say the painful infection, spread to people from mosquitoes, can…

What Is the Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak That Has Killed Two People in New York City?Fifty-eight people have been infected—and two have died—in a New York City…

Two people have died and at least 58 have been sickened amid an outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in the Harlem area of New York City, according…

The annual tally of measles cases in the US is the highest in 33 years, as an ongoing outbreak in west Texas continues to drive cases.The…

A listeria food poisoning outbreak that has killed three people and led to one pregnancy loss is linked to newly recalled heat-and-eat chicken fettuccine Alfredo products…