/oss/taxonomy/term/5890/all en /oss/article/medical-history/why-measles-so-contagious <p>Even if he had been aware of what was happening inside the girl’s body, the man likely would not have been worried. She was, after all, sitting quite a long ways away.</p> <p>The girl was 11 years old. She was a refugee from Malawi, a narrow African country surrounded by Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambique. She had flown from Malawi to South Africa earlier that day and was now on a 12-hour flight to Australia. The day before the trip began, she had started to feel a bit sick.</p> Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:13:40 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9918 at /oss /oss/article/health-and-nutrition-contributors/cancers-sweet-tooth <p>To the surprise of many, however, cancer cells are defective at producing the very fuel they need to grow and spread, but manage to overcome the innate “disability” and out-compete normal healthy cells? How?</p> Fri, 17 Dec 2021 22:29:44 +0000 Nancy Liu-Sullivan, PhD 8953 at /oss