Infectious Disease
What you need to know about infectious disease, from symptoms and treatments to the latest outbreaks and issues across the globe.
In the three most-affected countries, overall, the number of new cases is plummeting.
Vox editors, writers, and designers on the titles that grabbed their attention this year.
The mistake is one of multiple errors the CDC has made this year, including dozens of workers accidentally exposed to anthrax.
From the Ebola quarantine wars to exercises that will add length to your legs and healthy e-cigarettes, these were the worst attacks on science and reason this year.
Drug-resistant infections, Ebola, and fixing a broken clinical trials system are among the big ones.
“Still today President Obama has not called on my grandmother to say, ‘my condolences.’”
Why it’s a big deal that a Health and Human Services advisory panel finally recommended lifting the lifetime ban.
Progress has been made in Liberia and Guinea, but the epidemic is out of control in Sierra Leone.
On December 2, the FDA will consider lifting its lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men.
On World Aids Day, here’s what you need to know about what’s being billed as a miracle drug in the AIDS epidemic.
These stories didn’t kill you, but they got a lot of attention anyway.
An interview with Joanne Liu, president of Doctors Without Borders
What makes up the burden of disease in people over the age of 60, in poor and rich countries, is surprisingly similar.
There are outbreaks of bird flu on farms in Europe that have health officials worried.
Here’s what Dr. Martin Salia’s son had to say about his father.
Obesity, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease fall lower on the list.
These two paragraphs explain why fear overcame facts in this epidemic.
The pages we visit might be more telling than we realize
Exactly 42 days after the virus was first diagnosed in the United States, the country now appears to be completely Ebola free.
A virus that might be causing paralysis in kids, a mosquito-borne disease that leads to long-term joint pain, and other health horrors we’ve been ignoring.
Starting today, Facebook users can give to Ebola charities with the click of a button.
A visual guide to Republicans’ huge victory.
Canada just became one of two developed countries to ban visas for West Africans.
You should worry about this air-borne disease than Ebola.
Fear-bola is real, and it’s causing an insane public and policy reaction similar to what emerged following the discovery of HIV.
The decision ends the state’s mandatory quarantine order.
It is literally impossible to imagine how Ebola could be transmitted in this particular scenario, which involves a health worker who has twice tested negative for Ebola and a pizza delivery person who has not recently traveled to West Africa.
How a shortage of health personnel is hampering the eradication effort.
Hickox said she won’t be bullied by politicians.
Some states are rushing to lock up travelers returning from West Africa to stop the spread of the virus. Here’s your state-by-state guide.
Why the region needs US doctors and nurses now more than ever.
When the virus met modern medicine, nearly everyone survived.
Quarantining returning Ebola workers “is like driving a carpet tack with a sledgehammer.”
Even Halloween can’t escape anti-vaxxers’ messaging.
How fears of disease change people’s politics.
The nurse will be released from the hospital, but she’ll remain under a mandatory quarantine order until she leaves New Jersey.
A deadly disease not only keeps people from work because of illness; it keeps people from investing in other countries
Quarantines may sound nice, but they involve mistreatment of heroic health workers.
A touching picture following a nurse’s victory over Ebola.