Al Jazeera: Syria’s war: Who is responsible for the dying children of Rukban? (Vohra, 1/18).

Business Insider: Mosquito-borne diseases kill millions of people each year. A team of scientists think genetic manipulation could wipe out the worst of them (Kotecki, 1/16).

The Economist: Vaccine researchers are preparing for Disease X (1/17).

Financial Times: How to change your diet to save the planet (Cookson, 1/17).

Healio: WHO raises concern about infectious disease risk in Syrian settlement (Bortz, 1/17).

IRIN: As Venezuela’s denied crisis deepens, local aid groups shift tactics (Schulman, 1/17).

The Lancet: Health-care inequity a challenge for Brazil’s new government (Alves/Fraser, 1/19).

Washington Post: Tiny Indian state proposes world’s biggest experiment with guaranteed income (Masih, 1/18).