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Climate change is fuelling the spread of viral diseases in plants

11 April 2023

Warmer and wetter weather has been linked to higher rates of infection in an analysis of plant virus outbreaks across the world from 1984 to 2019
A child in Seattle, Washington, receives a chickenpox vaccine in 2019. The US, among other countries, offers a routine chickenpox vaccine to children, unlike countries such as the UK and Denmark

Should more countries vaccinate children against chickenpox?

5 April 2023

Some countries are concerned that vaccinating children could lead to a rise in severe chickenpox cases among older unvaccinated people. But a new study suggests that routinely immunising children could cut the number of people who die from the infection...

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