Jason Beaubien

An ancient disease makes yet another comeback

Gabrielle Emanuel, Jason Beaubien, Melody Schreiber

Why cholera is striking in Africa. It's a disease that's easy to control with proper treatment. But without medical care, patients can perish quickly.

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The dream of wiping out polio might need a rethink

Jason Beaubien

When public health specialists look at the annual case counts, some see a trend that raises questions about how realistic the goal of a polio-free world might be.

These two photos, taken in 2014 by scientist Eddie Holmes, show raccoon dogs and unknown birds caged in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. GPS coordinates of these images confirm that the animals were housed in the southwest corner of the market, where researchers found evidence of the coronavirus in January 2020.

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WHO calls on China to share data on raccoon dog link to pandemic. Here's what we know

Michaeleen Doucleff, Jason Beaubien

Data was released briefly, then rescinded. As NPR reported previously, there is already strong evidence pointing to these animals in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan.

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Jimmy Carter took on the awful Guinea worm when no one else would — and he triumphed

Jason Beaubien, Sam Whitehead, Gabrielle Emanuel

Carter leaves behind a legacy of tackling diseases affecting the poor in remote areas — notably Guinea worm disease. "He really put Guinea worm and other neglected tropical diseases on the map," says Adam Weiss of the Carter Center.

A woman tends to lentil soup at a municipal soup kitchen in Gaziantep, Turkey. On the first day after the quake, the kitchen's director says they distributed soup to more than 200,000 people.

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Lentil soup comes to the rescue in quake-ravaged Turkey

Jason Beaubien

It's a supersoup during this humanitarian crisis. Easy to make, it warms the displaced, fuels rescue crews and comforts residents traumatized by the disaster.

Rescue workers in Turkey and Syria are turning to lentil soup to feed thousands of people

Jason Beaubien

Lentil soup is one of the staples that rescue worker are turning to in their efforts to feed hundreds of thousands of people after the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.

Yasin Pinarbasi walks into a building he inspected that suffered some earthquake damage, west of Antakya, Turkey.

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Is it safe to go home? With hard hats and phone apps, Turkey's engineers seek answers

Jason Beaubien, Claire Harbage

NPR follows one of the hundreds of building inspectors in Turkey's earthquake zone to learn about the massive challenge of figuring how who can return to their homes.