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No longer do schools and other institutions need to screen apparently healthy students and employees as a matter of course. The CDC is putting less emphasis on social distancing — and the new guidance has dropped the “six foot” standard.
 

The spread prompted many to rush for the vaccine, and others, such as universities, were urged to prepare for potential outbreaks as they brace for the academic year to begin this month. Now, concerns are rising over whether monkeypox could impact thrift stores as more people become scared of transmission.
 

One manufacturer believes it has a solution to the gun violence plaguing the United States - a personalized smart gun that uses fingerprint technology to make firearms safer.
 

As global temperatures have risen in recent decades, so have the number of outbreaks of infectious diseases. SARS, MERS, Zika, West Nile, COVID-19, and now clusters of monkeypox and polio have all recently threatened public health.
 

Scientists discovered a new virus in eastern China that may be able to jump from animals to humans. But health experts say it isn't cause for panic.
 

The attack at the Jefferson Avenue Tops left several Buffalo neighborhoods without a convenient source of fresh food. It made the city a national emblem for the plight of urban "food deserts." The term generally describes the nation's thousands of low-income census tracts where an estimated 53.6 million people live outside an easy walk or drive to a full-service supermarket.
 

After a two-year hiatus, the flu may be back this season – and with a vengeance. Data from the Southern Hemisphere, which is in its flu season, show cases surpassing pre-pandemic levels, prompting health experts to worry about what’s in store for Americans this year.
 

U.S. health officials on Tuesday authorized a plan to stretch the nation’s limited supply of monkeypox vaccine by giving people just one-fifth the usual dose, citing research suggesting that the reduced amount is about as effective.
 

Scientists and economists look at what learning loss and disruption could bring for a generation of students—and what can be done about it.
 

How many species have been affected? And how many cases have there been in the animal kingdom? Those are difficult questions to answer. Yet it's an important task, say researchers, because of the possibility that the virus could mutate into a perhaps more transmissible or virulent strain in animals and then pass back to humans.
 

Officials have declared monkeypox a public health emergency, but school leaders shouldn't panic, experts say.
 

Some experts think it might be worth getting a second booster now if you face a high risk of COVID-19 exposure or if your previous dose was ages ago. The rise of BA.5 has spooked many of them, despite evidence the virus causes less severe disease now than at any other point during the pandemic.