Infectious Disease
What you need to know about infectious disease, from symptoms and treatments to the latest outbreaks and issues across the globe.
We discovered its cause 144 years ago. It’s still a massive problem.
How politics, not parasites, became the biggest threat in the fight against malaria
No one wants to make it.
Why the Trump administration is cutting out a country that needs it most.
AI could make bioweapons more dangerous. It could also be the key to stopping them.
And four other burning bird flu questions, answered.
The global fight against HIV is at a perilous tipping point.
An intervention to reduce child mortality may accelerate drug resistance.
Preventing the disease can improve the quality of life for thousands.
Contaminated food from McDonald’s, Boar’s Head, and more is making Americans sick.
Rwandan public health officials have a strategy that could help prevent further outbreaks.
Who should actually get the jab, and when?
But there might be global consequences.
A first case outside of the continent has been detected in Sweden. What’s next?
Covid’s summer surge, explained
Now isn’t the time to stop funding key public health programs.
I spent years in Africa as an epidemiologist. Here’s what I saw.
With bird flu affecting multiple dairy farms, unpasteurized products are more dangerous than ever — but some people are reluctant to heed government guidance.
It’s not as complicated as it seems, but there’s one key hurdle.
New regulations are a win for safe synthetic DNA.
A pandemic response that amounts to hoping and praying isn’t nearly enough.
Here’s what’s worrying experts right now about H5N1’s spread among dairy cows — and what isn’t.
How corporate greed plays a role in making bird flu outbreaks — and egg prices — worse.
How industrial meat and dairy trap us in an infectious disease cycle.
The flow of new money and interest into core EA fields like AI safety poses a challenge to a movement that was used to being small.
With foreign aid increasingly uncertain, Africa wants to tackle disease emergencies on its own.
PEPFAR saved millions of people from AIDS. Don’t let it die.
We failed to prepare, and now animals are paying the price.
Powerful new vaccines — and challenge trials around new drugs — are taking the fight to one of the world’s biggest killers.
13 questions about bird flu, answered.
Scientists have never seen anything like it.
Forty-three years ago this week, the world was officially declared free of smallpox — but that should only be the beginning.
With potential vaccines still in development, prevention is key.
The fallout from a misinterpreted review on mask science only underscores the need for better protections.
Things could get real shitty.
If we assume eggs must be cheap, we can’t address the twin crises of factory farming and bird flu.
The H5N1 avian flu virus isn’t a major human threat today. Here’s what it’d take to become one.
The eggs are expensive because the chickens are sick.
Bird flu is driving up egg and turkey prices — and killing millions of animals. Why won’t we vaccinate against it?
We still aren’t ready for the next one — but a new report offers a blueprint for ending pandemics.