Health

While cooking bat meat thoroughly can reduce the risk of foodborne pathogens, it does not eliminate exposure risks during hunting, handling, and preparation, Onuorah points out. “Public health experts generally discourage the hunting and consumption of bats, especially in areas where zoonotic diseases are a concern,” she adds.

As pollution, sewage, and unchecked development shrink Kashmir's lakes, families who rely on them for their livelihoods have few alternatives — even when the water is toxic.

“We’re really the only country in the world that keeps people locked up so many years. We are getting so used to that here that we forget that that’s not normal and other countries look at us like we’re crazy.”

“Targeting menstrual products might seem small compared to bombings and executions, but it is a serious threat to women survivors of war who need menstrual supplies to stay healthy. This has become a tool, another way for conflict to control women’s bodies.”

"I think the biggest misinformation spreader in the U.S. is the President of the United States himself. When he says something, it gets echoed in different magazines, newspapers, everywhere. And given his power and privilege, his narratives are likely to influence a lot of people. Even if you don’t like him, or you don’t like what he says, even if you know that whatever he says is not true, it’s impossible to avoid seeing his content."

A year after losing federal funding, Mississippi's only statewide advocacy group for Asian American and Pacific Islander communities is still navigating an uncertain future.

The American government’s decision to build an Ebola quarantine facility over 700 miles away from the outbreak sparked protests, legal concerns, and the untimely death of a teenage boy.

"We have a fentanyl vaccine, and we lost funding for the Phase I clinical trial because of the current administration’s misalignment on vaccines. … Now we have a bunch of very expensive vials that are just sitting there, ready to go in somebody’s arm."

Roughly 5 percent of doctors in the United States are Black today, compared to the 14 percent of African Americans living in the nation. It’s a ratio that has barely budged in more than a century.

On one hand, being born in a prison camp on U.S. soil made me an American citizen. But when I did research on my family in the FBI files of my parents, there was also a face sheet on me. At 2 months old, I was designated an enemy alien. History proves we can never get complacent about privilege or belonging, and that democracy isn’t a fixed thing.