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This undated photo released in 2019 by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, shows the institute workers in a lab. (The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East via AP) ADDITION: adding photo was released in 2019

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Russia’s Suspected Plague Incident: Three Things to Know

Oct. 6, 2026 by Syra Madad

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Andes Virus: Neither “Just a Rodent Virus” Nor the Next Pandemic Virus

May. 15, 2026 by Syra Madad and Boghuma K Titanji, MD PhD
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Youth-Centered Investments for Thriving Arctic Communities

Apr. 13, 2026 by Seater, Mariah , Ivalu Katajavaara Seidler, Sigrún Sigurðardóttir, Wayne Clark and Sappho Gilbert
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Law Professor Jody Freeman Unpacks the EPA's Decision to Rescind the Endangerment Finding

Mar. 2, 2026 by Robert N Stavins and Jody Freeman

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Russia’s Suspected Plague Incident: Three Things to Know

Oct. 6, 2026 by Syra Madad

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HGHI Announces 2026–2027 Scholarly Working Groups on Student Mental Health, Arctic Housing, and Postpartum Hemorrhage

Aug. 17, 2026

In The News

from Harvard Global Health Institute

U.S. Needs to Find Outbreaks Before Patients Do

Jul. 22, 2026

In The News

from The Boston Globe

Travel Bans Aren’t Enough to Stop Ebola’s Spread

Jun. 2, 2026

In The News

from Boston Globe Magazine

America’s Health Care Boom: More Administrators, Fewer Doctors

Jun. 1, 2026

In The News

from The Boston Globe

8 Things to Know About the Ebola Outbreak Now Spreading in DRC and Uganda

May. 20, 2026

In The News

from The New York Academy of Sciences

Andes Virus: Neither “Just a Rodent Virus” Nor the Next Pandemic Virus

May. 15, 2026 by Syra Madad and Boghuma K Titanji, MD PhD

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from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

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A man wearing a mask rides a bicycle on a street in Epuyen, Argentina, Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. An Argentine judge has ordered 85 residents of a remote Patagonian town to stay in their homes for at least 30 days to help halt an outbreak of hantavirus in which nine people have died. (AP Photo/Gustavo Zaninelli)

18 Passengers from Hantavirus-Hit Ship Back in U.S.

May. 11, 2026

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from MS NOW