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Health

What to know about measles outbreak

Last week, a second unvaccinated child died after contracting measles during an outbreak in Texas. Here is what local health departments want you to know about keeping your family safe from the highly contagious, airborne virus that has made a comeback since being officially eradicated in the ...

Local labs, global impact

SARANAC LAKE — Local research and biotechnology laboratories Trudeau Institute and Ampersand Biosciences have received a $1 million grant to produce tools aiding the research of the flu. The $1,084,824 grant is a second-phase Small Business Innovative Research grant from the National ...

California declared an emergency over bird flu. How serious is the situation?

California officials have declared a state of emergency over the spread of bird flu, which is tearing through dairy cows in that state and causing sporadic illnesses in people in the U.S. That raises new questions about the virus, which has spread for years in wild birds, commercial poultry ...