pathogens

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The Quarantine and Biocontainment units not only protect patients but provide a place for doctors to learn more about new and dangerous pathogens.

From Slate • May 14, 2026

The technology was intended for testing against Hantaan virus and other pathogens.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Officials emphasize a low broader public risk for hantavirus, which does not spread easily like airborne pathogens.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

This approach revealed traces of ancient pathogens, including the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis and the organism responsible for louse-borne relapsing fever, Borrelia recurrentis.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026

These diseases must have been the evolutionary survivors of far more pathogens that tried to make the jump to us from animals—and mostly failed.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond