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Adele underwent surgery on her vocal folds in 2011 after complaining of a chest infection (Credit: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
Health

How Covid can change your singing voice

By Isabelle Gerretsen

A woman wearing a mask in New York City in December 2022 (Credit: Getty Images)
Immune Response

The covert winter wave of Covid-19

By David Cox
There have been more cases of certain infectious diseases in children this year than expected (Credit: Getty Images)
Family Tree

The diseases soaring post-lockdown

By Chris Baraniuk
A health worker administering a Covid-19 vaccine in Ecuador, 2022 (Credit: Getty Images)
Immune Response

Do any Covid jabs work on all variants?

By David Cox
India is among those countries to have reported new outbreaks of monkeypox and recently suffered its first death from the virus (Credit: Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images)
Monkeypox

Why monkeypox is spreading in humans

By Richard Hollingham
A vial of dried smallpox vaccination containing around 100 doses (Credit: Getty Images)
The Lost Index

The 83-year hunt for a vanished virus

By Zaria Gorvett
From left-right, drawings of measles, scarlet fever, and smallpox (Credit: Alamy)
Immune Response

The virus that causes 'immune amnesia'

By Zaria Gorvett
An Israeli health worker preparing to administer a booster shot (Credit: Getty Images)
Immune Response

Do we really need third vaccine doses?

By Zaria Gorvett
Studying people who show unusual levels of resistance or susceptiblity to Covid-19 may lead to new treatments (Credit: Ernesto Benavides/Getty Images)
Immune Response

The people with high Covid resistance

By David Cox
A close up of a golden lion tamarin (Credit: Luiz Thiago de Jesus)
Stopping the Next One

Why the risk of yellow fever is rising

By Jacob Kushner
A worker checks on pigs at a farm in China's Sichuan province (Credit: Getty Images)
Stopping the Next One

Why a 2009 pandemic could return

By Harriet Constable
The virus that causes Covid-19 is picking up mutations as it spreads perhaps as it tries to escape people's immune systems (Credit: Mohammed Abed/Getty Images)
Covid-19

What we know about Covid-19 variants

By Richard Gray
Close contact between camels and humans risks spreading Mers – a more deadly coronavirus relative of Covd-19 (Credit: Jacob Kushner)
Stopping the Next One

The virus hunters warily eyeing camels

By Jacob Kushner in Marsabit, Kenya
Scentists are starting to notice patterns in the mutations that are emerging in Covid-19 all over the world (Credit: Oscar Del Pozo/Getty Images)
Covid-19

How Covid-19 will evolve in the future

By Richard Gray
Though it has fallen out of favour in the West, phages have been in use for more than a century (Credit: Romain Lafabregue/AFP/Getty Images)
Virus

The viruses that fight human diseases

By Pearly Jacob
Smallpox has plagued humans for thousands of years but was eradicated after a sustained vaccination campaign (Credit: Science Photo Library)
Virus

The deadly viruses that vanished

By Zaria Gorvett