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Eroded Public Health Powers Increase Outbreak Vulnerability

As concerns grow about hantavirus, Ebola and other threats, many state and local health agencies now have fewer tools to protect communities than they did during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Ebola surges in eastern DRC amid conflict and mistrust

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo—Health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are scrambling to contain an outbreak of Ebola virus, which is suspected to have killed more than 200

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When a Hospital Closes: Gaps in Trump's Rural Health Fund

WILLIAMSTON, N.C. — Two years after her brother’s death, Debra Pierce still wonders whether Stanley Sears, 50, might have survived if their local hospital had remained open.