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What would you do
if you were sailing on a ship far from loved ones and you didn't know when you'd be able to set foot on land again?
For the crew of the cargo ship, the Avantour,
the Covid pandemic made this nightmare scenario a reality.
What is happening?
to the people we love that are home.
Lives Less Ordinary from the BBC World Service tells their remarkable story in a new eight-part series.
Listen now.
Search for Lives Less Ordinary wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
Hello, I'm Claudia Hammond and this is Health Check from the BBC.
Every week we take a look at what is happening in the world of health and medicine.
This week, chikungunya, a disease spread by mosquitoes,
is on the rise in parts of the Americas, Africa and Southeast Asia.
And unusually, cases are also being seen in China, France and Italy.
We'll be finding out why.
A new vaccine against gonorrhoea that was developed for a completely different disease.
and the US decision to cut funding for research into mRNA vaccines.
And to help me today, I have Matt Fox,
who is Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology at Boston University in the US.