Infectious Disease
What you need to know about infectious disease, from symptoms and treatments to the latest outbreaks and issues across the globe.
Before you worry about Ebola, you should worry about lightning, bees, and sharks.
More proof the US can contain the disease.
You probably won’t get it on the subway or from a bowling ball.
Did you inexplicably lick the subway poles that Dr. Craig Spencer used? That may have been a bad idea.
It’s really easy and cheap, but almost everyone does it wrong.
“I know people are tense but let’s get the facts before people start judging a very scared human who took risks for others.”
Learn about the deadly disease, from its initial discovery to whether it poses a threat to the US.
Dr. Craig Spencer, a physician in New York City who recently returned from treating Ebola patients overseas, has tested positive for Ebola.
Plus, the latest on Ebola and the academic fraud scandal at the University of North Carolina.
The West African country is the sixth to get the virus this year.
A new measure will follow people who come to the US from West Africa for 21 days to see if they develop symptoms of the deadly disease.
The epidemic continues in West Africa — but not on Twitter.
The talk of travel bans and the panic over the two infected nurses reflects a huge mistake that Americans are making about the Ebola virus.
Am I at risk for Ebola? Does Ebola spread through sex? How did this outbreak get so bad? We’ve got you covered.
Fox News and GOP congressmen are warning that terrorists could weaponize Ebola. Here’s how things might go if the terrorists took them seriously.
Just five airports will take travelers from Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea.
The author of The Hot Zone describes how his view of the virus has changed since he wrote the best-seller.
America’s Ebola hysteria ends with Peter Pattakos.
The team at Involution Studios has put together an incredible graphic explainer of Ebola, how the disease works why this particular outbreak is so bad.
The fact that none of Thomas Duncan’s close contacts got infected should ease ‘Ebolanoia.’
“Great threat to US citizens: ISIS, Ebola, or equal?”
The nurse was probably a little too honest with the Today Show’s Matt Lauer.
We’re worrying about the wrong country.
But the health-care worker hasn’t shown symptoms for 19 days, just two days shy of the 21-day incubation period for Ebola.
The argument against airport screening and travel restrictions in a time of Ebola.
There’s a sliver of good news in the Ebola outbreak: two African countries are successfully halting the spread of the disease.
Texas completely fumbled America’s first diagnosed Ebola case. Other hospitals appear to be missing the lesson — and it could cost lives.
They’re also confident the disease won’t spread much further.
Extra funding doesn’t guarantee that a vaccine is right around the corner. That just isn’t how drug research works.
You can help stop Ebola. Here’s how.
Research shows that even things that clearly have nothing to do with politics — from NCAA tournament upsets to shark attacks — have partisan political consequences. So of course Ebola does, too.
Ebola is an economic disaster, too.
The agency’s video explains what’s known as contact tracing.
The Fox News anchor is not happy with the hysterics.
They are brave, underpaid and on the front lines of fighting the Ebola crisis.
The news comes three days after the announcement that another nurse got the virus at the same hospital.
These are the circumstances under which you can — and can’t — get Ebola in the air.
The World Health Organization has touted convalescent blood as a key treatment, though it’s still unproven.
Right now, the American people are getting two seemingly contradictory messages about the Ebola outbreak. Message 1: PANIC! Message 2: CALM DOWN!