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As Coronavirus Cases Mount, So Do Concerns About Price-Gouging and Corporate Profiteering

An intensive care nurse treat a patient at intensive care unit at the Klinikum Bad Hersfeld hospital on March 20, 2020 in Bad Hersfeld, Germany.

Amid Years of Funding Cuts to Public Health, First US Case of China's Coronavirus Detected

Julia Conley, staff writer

Public health advocates say state, local, and federal agencies are underprepared to cope with the spread of a new infectious disease.

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Outraged Miami Residents Shut Down Town Meeting Over Zika Pesticide Spraying

Nika Knight, staff writer

'If you're going to spray, we want a say!' chanted demonstrators

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'Like Visiting a Cemetery': Millions of Honeybees Dead After Zika Pesticide Spraying

Nika Knight, staff writer

'I just couldn't wrap my head around the fact that we spray poison from the sky...

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In Zika-Gripped Florida, Concerns Mount Over Insecticide Use—and Efficacy

CDC Expands Zika Travel Advisory in Miami

Florida Keys Residents Resist Controversial GMO Mosquito Trial

Anti-Choice Rubio Thumbs Nose at Pregnant Women Amid Zika Scare

Amid Zika Scare, FDA Clears Way for GMO Mosquito Trial in Florida

CDC Issues Unprecedented Travel Warning for US City Over Zika Spread

Dems Refuse to Back GOP Zika Bill that Attacks Women, Vets, Obamacare, and Clean Water

CDC: 'There is No Longer Any Doubt that Zika Causes Microcephaly'

As Zika Fears Spread, Might Pesticide Cure be the Cause?

UN: Millions of Lives at Risk if Epidemic Response Not Improved

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Environment America

1100 Health Professionals Urge President-elect Trump to Act on Climate

Jubilee USA Network

New Report Links Zika Virus to Steep Increase in Birth Defects in Brazil

NARAL Pro-Choice America

NARAL on House Zika Response: "Pro-Life" GOP Proves it Cares Little for Actual People's Lives

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Sandy Smith-Nonini

To Re-Open Safely We Need a "Health Force" of Disease Detectives

Paul Buchheit

No, We're Not All in This Together. How the Super-Rich Are Cheating America.

David Suzuki

Let's Come Together in These Physically Distancing Times

Christopher D. Cook

Where’s the Money for Health Care and Saving the Planet? Well, We Clearly Have It.

Michael T. Klare

Is the Covid-19 Pandemic Mother Nature’s Response to Human Transgression?

Christopher Brauchli

The Mosquito and the Politician

Christopher Brauchli

The Mosquito and the Politician

Gabriela Lemus

Congress Must Move Beyond Partisan Politics and Act on Zika

Jamila Taylor

What the Media and Congress Are Missing on Zika and Poverty

Nathalie Baptiste

Zika is a Reproductive Rights Issue