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  1. Health & Medicine

    Extensive test shows cholera vaccine works

    A vaccine for cholera has proved up to 81 percent effective in a large-scale public health trial in Mozambique.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Health & Medicine

    Soldiers in Iraq coming down with parasitic disease

    Hundreds of U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan have contracted leishmaniasis, a parasite-borne disease that attacks the skin.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Humans

    Science News of the Year 2000

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2000.

    By Science News
  4. Health & Medicine

    Probing a parasite for vulnerability

    Researchers have discovered an enzyme that is indispensable to the parasite that causes sleeping sickness, and disabling that enzyme could offer a novel treatment strategy for the disease.