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A strain of the Zika virus is stained green in this image from a transmission electron microscope. The virus sample came from a microcephaly case in Brazil.

Zika Mystery: How Did A 73-Year-Old Man Infect His Son?

And there's another mystery. Why was the father suffering from such a severe case that he eventually died?

Carp is a holiday mainstay in several central European nations. Traditionally kept in the bathtub, the fish can become a sort of family pet for a day or two, before becoming dinner. Here, a street vendor shows a carp to customers in downtown Prague in December 2012.

In Slovakia, Christmas Dinner Starts In The Bathtub

Christmas carp is a holiday mainstay in many central European nations. Traditionally, it swims in the family tub for a day or two, sometimes becoming a sort of pet before it ends up on the plate.

The Flufferrettes perform at the 12th annual What the Fluff? festival, celebrating 100 years of Marshmallow Fluff.

'What The Fluff?' Celebrates A Century Of Peanut Butter's Marshmallow Friend

The people of Massachusetts celebrated the centennial in sticky style with a festival — including thousands of Fluffernutter sandwiches — in the neighborhood where Fluff was first whipped up.

Middle Eastern Meatball Soup with Vegetables, one of many recipes featured in Soup for Syria.

'Soup For Syria': Chefs Share Recipes To Raise Funds For Refugees

A charity cookbook featuring soup recipes from Alice Waters, Anthony Bourdain and others, famous and not, has raised $300,000 so far for displaced Syrians. Why soup? It's a universal comfort food.

San Diego Business Leaders Launch Campaign To Put Developer Fee On Ballot

For the second time this year, the San Diego business community wants voters to make the ultimate decision on a measure approved by City Council already. This time the issue is a tax hike on land developers.

Duck, Andouille and Crawfish Gumbo, with Carolina rice and green onion, which is served in the Creole Coast section of the cafe.

African-American Museum Cafe Serves Up Black History With Every Forkful

The restaurant inside the new National Museum of African American History and Culture offers a menu designed to showcase the breadth of black contributions to our nation's cuisine.

A woman builds a fire at a migrant camp on the Costa Rica-Panama border. The area has seen a recent surge of migrants coming from Africa, hoping to make it to the U.S.

Via Cargo Ships and Jungle Treks, Africans Dream Of Reaching The U.S.

One of the lesser known tales of the world migrant crisis is taking place in Central America, where hundreds of Africans are landing with dreams of making it to the U.S.

Shalon Irving, a public health researcher who worked for the Centers for Disease Control and and Prevention who was studying the physical toll that discrimination exacts on physical health, died just a few weeks after giving birth to her daughter, Soleil. Black women are 243% more likely than white women to die during or shortly after childbirth.

Making The Case That Discrimination Is Bad For Your Health

The researcher who coined the term "weathering" talks with Gene Demby about health, hard data, and why it took so long for people to come around to the idea that discrimination hurts bodies.

Health workers treat a patient at the Ebola Treatment Center in the city of Butembo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's one of three locations where researchers have been conducting a clinical trial of four experimental treatments for the disease.

Will 1 Of These 4 Experimental Treatments Cure Ebola?

A landmark study in Congo is very close to finding out. But there are some major obstacles that have nothing to do with science.

Original artwork created for the series by Al Smith.

Wade In The Water: An Introduction

Produced in 1994 by NPR and the Smithsonian Institution, Wade in the Water is a 26-part documentary series detailing the history of American gospel music and its impact on soul, jazz and R&B.

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