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outbreaks
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Why context and risk assessment are vital in disease outbreak coverage
Multiple outbreaks and unusual cases of infectious disease are in the news right now. That means it’s more crucial than…
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Former reporter offers new angles for covering vaccines, public health crises
Health reporters looking for another angle on covering vaccine debates should consider digging into the legal challenges public health officials…
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Increasing infectious disease outbreaks highlight need for public health reporting
Deadly infectious disease outbreaks are occurring more often around the world. Influenza virus circulated in the southern hemisphere and then…
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In race between bugs and drugs, the bugs are pulling ahead
PHOENIX – To picture a future in which antibiotics no longer work, all we have to do is look at…
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Research: Finesse, transparency key when reporting foodborne illness outbreaks
A mainstay of health reporting is covering outbreaks of foodborne illness, whether it’s salmonella in peanut butter (and its criminal…
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Project follows the race to make bagged salad safer
The latest investigation by California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting’s Deborah Schoch will make you think twice before ripping…
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Refusal to vaccinate puts others at risk
The Marin Independent Journal‘s Rob Rogers, reporting from a county where an above-average number of parents ask to exempt their…