Infectious Disease
What you need to know about infectious disease, from symptoms and treatments to the latest outbreaks and issues across the globe.
Here’s what’s scary about the Dallas health-care worker infected with Ebola: she knew she was treating an Ebola patient.
It’s already in the US. Where could it go next?
Peter Jahrling, who helped to discover a new strain of Ebola, thinks the virus that’s circulating now might be more easily spread.
This would mark the first case of Ebola transmission in the United States.
Better training and more experience may have helped America’s biocontamination units successfully prevent the transmission of Ebola.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s emergency preparedness budget has fallen about half since 2006.
A global epidemic in these five steps.
The Ebola epidemic is horrible. But it’s more than that: it’s a warning that what comes next could be devastating — unless we learn its lessons now.
You definitely won’t miss the dramatic spike in activity.
How Ebola cases are being missed and under-counted.
In the time between the first Ebola patient being diagnosed in the US, and his death, something like 13,144 Americans died from heart disease.
The CDC has announced a new airport screening process to identify travelers with Ebola before they enter the US
A nurse treating Ebola patients told health care workers “I think I have Ebola.” They didn’t listen.
Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national, died this morning.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the first-ever case of Ebola diagnosed in America.
The brain runs out of willpower as the day goes on.
Gloria Tumwijuke nearly died from the Ebola virus in a 2012 outbreak in Uganda. Here’s her story.
The rare virus has now shown up in 43 states across the US and in Canada.
A Q&A with a public health official on enterovirus D68, a deadly virus that is striking children across the country.
In the wake of news of an Ebola infection in Dallas there have been calls for US airports to screen passengers for the virus. Here’s why that won’t keep Americans safe from Ebola - and what will.
The largest ever outbreak of the virus is happening right now — and stumping researchers.
This is the first case of Ebola spread outside of West Africa this year.
Early Ebola symptoms can look like a lot of other things.
There are four hospitals in the United States with special isolation wings to treat highly infectious patients. George Risi runs one of them.
Stop freaking out about Ebola and go get your seasonal flu shot.
An anthropologist on fear in the Ebola hot zone and how it’s destroying the social fabric of communities.
An American cameraman who had been hired by the network to cover the epidemic has tested positive for the virus.
Its easier to catch SARS, HIV, or mumps than it is to catch Ebola.
Fears that Ebola will mutate and spread through the air are overblown, experts say.
There’s a lot of nonsense out there. Here’s the facts.
The news of the first US Ebola infection is frightening, but the strength of America’s health care system means that we won’t have an outbreak in the US like the ones in Guinea, Liberia, or Sierra Leone.
What we can learn from the world’s worst Ebola epidemic that we didn’t learn from the SARS and H1N1 swine flu scares.
What experts will do to stop Ebola within our borders.
Worries about the the worst outbreak in history intensifying within Africa trump concerns about cross-continent spread.
You can help stop Ebola. Here’s how.
Ebola isn’t going to kill you, or even spread widely in the United States.
The United States is the seventh country with a Ebola patient diagnosed this year, and the only country outside of Africa with a confirmed case.
The best methods we have to contain Ebola are failing, recruiting health-care personnel to work in West Africa is proving difficult, and the health community is worried about the outbreak spiraling further.
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mount an international response to stop the Ebola epidemic, director Thomas Frieden sat down for a frank conversation with Vox about the outbreak.