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 * ...that flow cytometry bioinformaticians use methods from computational statistics and machine learning to analyse single cell data gathered by flow cytometry for cancer and HIV/AIDS research (output pictured)?
 * ...that Sierra Leonean physician Aniru Conteh saved thousands of lives from Lassa fever before dying from the disease himself?
 * ...that early in the history of veterinary medicine in the Philippines, a cattle plague killed 600,000 animals from 1901 to 1902 alone?
 * ...that the isolation of antibodies and flu viruses from birds on Tryon Island, a coral cay off the coast of Queensland, Australia, led to the development of antiviral drugs, such as oseltamivir?
 * ...that the Plague of Athens devastated ancient Athens in 430 BC, perhaps leading ultimately to the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian War?