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A female mosquito

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Catching malaria makes you smell more attractive to mosquitoes

Mosquitoes are particularly attracted to the sweat of people who have malaria, suggesting the parasite that causes it may change a person’s body odour

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child plays with shaped blocks

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Infections during pregnancy affect a child's brain function

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Newly-discovered fungi turn luckless ants into kamikaze zombies

Life

Newly-discovered fungi turn luckless ants into kamikaze zombies

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Source of world’s biggest listeria outbreak still unknown

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Source of world’s biggest listeria outbreak still unknown

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A hospital full of people with flu

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Pandemics past: Seven times flu has become a mass killer

Features

schoolroom

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Waiting for the big one: A new flu pandemic is a matter of time

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racks of eggs

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Jab in the dark: Why we don’t have a universal flu vaccine

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flu jabs

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Stopping the spread: What you can do to prevent flu

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flu virus

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The epidemic on the way: Why winter flu is so bad this year

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Number 8

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Why a nasty surprise lurks 100 years on from the lethal 1918 flu

As the centenary of the great flu epidemic looms, we are right to be pessimistic – especially with H7N9 bird flu virus quietly circulating in China

Culture

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Your body fat may be protecting you against infections

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Technology

Wound scanner shows bacteria glowing if your body is infected

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Health

Anti-vax views must not derail France's compulsory vaccine law

Comment

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Climate change will kill millions but you knew that already

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