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The World Health Organization says it does not know what caused the Oct. 2 death of a woman who worked at a plague research institute in Irkutsk, Russia, and is asking Moscow for more information. Russian authorities describe the illness as pneumonia of unknown origin and have not linked it to plague.
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Hurricane Isaias made landfall in Florida on Friday as a Category 2 hurricane, killing at least four people and leaving hundreds of thousands without power across the Southeast. The storm has weakened to a post-tropical cyclone but continues to pose threats of flooding, tornadoes, and storm surge across the region.
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Pennsylvania has surpassed 1,000 measles cases, making it the largest state outbreak in more than 30 years, with 198 hospitalizations and five deaths reported. The outbreak, which began in April, shows no signs of slowing, prompting renewed vaccination efforts across multiple states.
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Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain.
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