Infectious Disease
What you need to know about infectious disease, from symptoms and treatments to the latest outbreaks and issues across the globe.
Covid-19 vaccines helped stem the pandemic, but public skepticism about them could doom future vaccines.
Here’s how to prepare for it.
Human challenge trials have changed the fight against malaria and cholera. Next up: tuberculosis.
The vaccines, along with other preventative treatments, could change cold season as we know it.
What’s behind the early surge in RSV and flu — and what’s to come.
A trio of researchers claimed they found likely evidence that the virus that causes Covid-19 was synthetic. And then scientists went to work picking the theory apart.
Here’s how to fix them — and what’s getting in the way.
A controversial new study involving an engineered version of Covid’s omicron variant raises new questions about research oversight.
America’s STI crisis is actually a maternal care crisis.
Accurate data is critical for public health, and the US doesn’t have it.
Why muddled messaging helped monkeypox become a public health emergency.
Got a protein? This AI will tell you what it looks like.
A “public health emergency of international concern” is the organization’s loudest alarm bell. Here’s what it can accomplish.
Meet the person who wants to bring effective altruism to Congress.
Bird flu currently poses little threat to humans, but it’s hell for the birds.
Journalists struggled to accurately convey scientific uncertainty on Covid-19.
The ins and outs of wastewater surveillance.
We have to roll back pandemic restrictions someday. Why is it so hard now?
The number of human-made existential risks has ballooned, but the most pressing one is the original: nuclear war.
The coronavirus is much more than a public health problem.
This research into viruses could help us understand pandemics better - or it could cause one.
Why we need to take the threat of bioengineered superbugs seriously.
“I understand it takes a certain amount of guts to aim high.” —Aubrey de Grey
Blizzards are always scary. But these five things prove that they were far more terrifying in 1888.
The World Health Organization found no new cases of the virus in the three most affected countries.
The Ebola outbreak is under control, but the developing world remains rife with life-threatening diseases that we in the West barely notice. I should know — I caught three of them in three months.
We spoke to the founder of Partners in Health on the US government response to Ebola, the key to retaining doctors in Africa, and his newly launched global health university in Rwanda.
I spent years trying to convince my wife to get her daughter vaccinated. What I learned is that we can’t argue people out of their fears, and only empathy will end anti-vax hysteria.
Where you were born can dramatically affect how and at what age you die.
Why the global health community is so excited — and so skeptical — about a shot that could prevent another deadly Ebola outbreak.
A new report from a panel of experts comes to dire conclusions about the World Health Organization’s failures.
Bill Gates on what the world needs to learn from the 20th century’s “death chart.”
This week, leaders of the global health world met in Geneva to talk about WHO reform. Despite the urgency brought on by Ebola, it’s not clear that anything will actually change.
The organization’s role in the global health order has changed dramatically over the past two decades.
Thomas Eric Duncan’s lover publishes a memoir.
Sierra Leone has recently experienced an uptick in cases.
A Q&A with Ron Klain, the first-ever “Ebola czar” in America.
One scientist described the difficulty of finding a clinical trial site “like aligning the stars.”
