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The common ancestor of extant mammalian coronaviruses originated recently in a bat species and their diversification occurred via preferential host switches rather than through codiversification with mammals.

The competing mortality risk from cancer itself overshadows any increase in COVID-19 mortality risk due to cancer.

Younger age at diagnosis of breast cancer was associated with higher risks of incident myocardial infarction and heart failure.

Epigenetic signature of maternal smoking contributes to smaller body size and lower birth weight in newborns of European and South Asian ancestry.

Population-level hybrid immunity depends substantially on vaccination coverage, including among those previously infected, and dried blood spot collection serves as a practicable biological surveillance platform for these immune responses.

Parasite migration between mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar and ongoing transmission clusters within Zanzibar highlight the need for continued preventive measures to reduce malaria transmission in the archipelago.

The reliance on food composition databases for the assessment of dietary intake is unreliable and results in a large bias when investigating the associations between diet and disease risk.