The virus, spread by ticks, can cause a disease that leads to swelling of the brain and permanent health problems in half of severe cases.

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In Richard Heydarian’s column, (see the ”The age of the unthinkable,” 6/17/25), the author has clearly recognized and analyzed the unthinkable situation in the Philippines and worldwide. In ...

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Bats are essential to our ecosystem. The main challenge in bat conservation is lack of awareness among the people about bats. A look at the various roles bats play in our ecology.

Ebola is a fairly weak virus: It cannot move from person to person through the air like SARS can. It transmits only through bodily fluids. The ABCS was overkill. They would try it.

The West African Ebola epidemic dwarfed all previous central African outbreaks of the virus, sickening more than 28,000 people and killing more than 11,000 of them. The 1,610 Ebola virus genomes ...