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In one of those emails, from June 2021, Greg Folkers, Dr. Fauci's former chief of staff, was discussing global biosafety practices and referenced an EcoHealth fact sheet. Folkers rendered the group's name as "Ec~Health," a misspelling that lawmakers said appeared to be a deliberate attempt to prevent the email from being caught in keyword searches to satisfy FOIA requests related to EcoHealth . In a separate email the same month, Folkers rendered the last name of Kristian Andersen, a prominent virologist who has investigated the origins of the pandemic and faced scrutiny from lawmakers, as “anders$n.” Experts on records retention…

Kristen Hallenga was born on November 11, 1985 in Norden, a small town in northern Germany, to a German father and an English mother, both teachers, according to the Times of London. When she was 9, she moved to Daventry, in central England, with her mother, Jane Hallenga; her twin sister, Maren Hallenga; and their older sister Maike Hallenga, all three survive her. Her father, Reiner Hallenga, died of a heart attack when she was 20 years old. Ms Hallenga first felt a lump in 2009, when she was in Beijing working for a travel company and teaching. During a…

The four adult children agreed. Their father, William Curry, a retired electrical engineer and business executive, was sinking deeper into dementia. They had found a memory care facility about a mile from their parents' home in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, where they thought Mr. Curry would do better. But their mother, Melissa, who was 83 when her family began urging her to make this change in 2016, remained determined to continue caring for her 81-year-old husband at home, despite the growing impact on his health. When her children raised the issue of moving, “she didn't want to discuss it,” said her daughter,…

As they travel, farm animals can also leave pathogens behind. In one study, scientists found that disease-causing bacteria, including some resistant to antibiotics, were spilling out of moving poultry trucks and into the cars behind them. The trucks “were just spreading these antibiotic-resistant bacteria,” said Ana Rule, a bioaerosol expert at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health and an author of the study. Contaminated transport vehicles are known to spread pathogens long after infected animals have disembarked and could play a role in the dairy cow outbreak, officials said. Infected animals can then spark outbreaks at their destinations,…