Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in.

Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years.

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count on Yacolt. For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman.

This week marks the fifth anniversary of COVID being declared a global pandemic.

So much changed about all of our lives then, and we're still feeling those effects five years later.

As we reflect on this anniversary, our producer, Fondomwangi took a pulse check on where the U.S. public health system is now and the lessons it's learned.

We're only a few months into 2025, and there has already been a number of infectious disease

outbreaks across the United States. There's measles in Texas and New Mexico. And of course,

we can't forget about the

bird flu outbreak in poultry and cows with several recent human cases too. But in Kansas,

they've been battling tuberculosis.

The first cases associated with it were recorded in January, 2024. The majority of

the cases were in Wyandotte County, which is an urban county. It's

part of the Kansas City Metro. And then there were some other cases in Johnson County, also part of

the Kansas City Metro. And the thing that was different with this outbreak is that active

tuberculosis cases, meaning the person can spread tuberculosis and is symptomatic,

spiked up so quickly.

That's Beck, Shaka Ford Wanganga, a health equity reporter at Kansas News Service.

She actually first broke the story that Kansas was even having a TB outbreak.

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