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Last school year marked the fifth year in a row that MMR coverage among kindergartners in the US had been below the federal target of 95%, a benchmark needed to prevent spread of the highly contagious disease.—
Deidre McPhillips,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025 -
Nearly two months after a deadly, massive measles outbreak in Texas was declared over, the highly contagious disease continues to spread across the country.—
Maria Godoy,
NPR,
12 Oct. 2025
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In rare cases, serious side effects can include bleeding problems, infections (like sepsis), kidney injury or blood clots in the lungs (pulmonary embolism), per the FDA’s prescribing information.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Why This Is Notable Scrub pants—particularly disposable ones—are designed for clinical use and play a role in infection-control protocols.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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In November 2020, Seibt falsely claimed that COVID-19 had not been isolated and that PCR tests were unreliable, alleging they were based solely on a computer model of the virus’s genome.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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But soon, an intruder introduces both suspicion and hope for connection, as loneliness battles with the fear that something considerably larger than a virus is hiding in the dark.—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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This Halloween, step into stories where science meets terror, where contagions kill, landscapes devour explorers, and technology crushes the human soul.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
31 Oct. 2025
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The contagion wouldn't stop at tech stocks.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Contagium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contagium. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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