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Changes Needed to Improve Safety of General Aviation Flights

Private, or general aviation, flights are 82 times riskier than commercial airline trips and represent the overwhelming majority of aviation crashes and casualties in the United States. The safety of private flights can and should be addressed, according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who identified major factors influencing crash involvement and crash survival and examined possible approaches for improving the safety of private flights.

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Doctor explaining the results of scan lung on digital tablet

The Guardian

Kansas reckons with large tuberculosis outbreak as health officials hamstrung
David Dowdy is quoted.

Cows feeding on farm.

Science News

A second version of bird flu is infecting cows. What does that mean?
Meghan Davis is quoted.

photo of young girl getting vaccinated

Associated Press

RFK Jr. kept asking to see the science that vaccines were safe. After he saw it, he dismissed it
Amesh Adalja is quoted. 

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