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  1. Health & Medicine

    ‘Knuckle fever’ reaches Italy

    A virus that causes debilitating fever and joint pain has spread from Africa to Italy, where it has caused at least 284 cases of illness.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Twice bitten

    Repeat episodes of Lyme disease are more likely caused by a second tick bite rather than by a return of the original illness.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Ulcer bug may prevent asthma

    Children whose stomachs carry the bacterium Helicobacter pylori are at lower risk for asthma than children who don't have the bug.

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  4. Humans

    Math clubs get national sponsor

    A math group is offering all U.S.