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How worried you should be about H5N1, the bird flu virus spreading on dairy farms in the United States, depends on who you are. (Jennifer B. Nuzzo, 6/19)

The anecdotes are increasingly impossible to ignore: Many people taking the new obesity drugs, whether Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy or Eli Lilly & Co.’s Zepbound, aren’t just eating less, they’re drinking and smoking less, too. (Lisa Jarvis, 6/20)

“Zofran girlies rise up.” Seeing that phrase on my screen as I idly scrolled TikTok made me stop and watch the whole video, but probably not for the reasons its creator wanted. (Jessica Grose, 6/19)

Here’s why a pandemic treaty would be a win for people everywhere, in the Global North and South. Think of a pandemic treaty as a grand social bargain to protect future generations from the devastating and inequitable impacts of pandemics. (Lawrence O. Gostin and Alexandra Finch, 6/19)

While it’s great that more people are taking to heart public health messages that reducing alcohol consumption can improve well-being and extend life, an important lesson from vaping as a replacement for cigarettes is being overlooked: What may be good for adults may be harmful to kids. Without any meaningful restrictions on the sale of non-alcoholic beverages to youths, the country is just one JUUL-like marketing push away from a potential public health crisis. (Molly Bowdring, Aaron S.B. Weiner and Judith Prochaska, 6/20)