Infectious Disease
What you need to know about infectious disease, from symptoms and treatments to the latest outbreaks and issues across the globe.
Dr. Peter Piot has been studying infectious diseases for nearly 40 years. He thinks this outbreak will be the first of many — and we’re not prepared.
As the death toll rises, the country is trying unprecedented measures to contain the virus.
An aid worker and native of Sierra Leone explains why the battle against Ebola has been so difficult and how the outbreak has transformed daily life.
The yearly gathering of more than three million people presents a public-health challenge during the world’s scariest Ebola epidemic.
A Red Cross burial team were the latest victims of violence against Ebola health workers.
The Ebola outbreak has reached an unprecedented number of victims in the history of the disease.
The group had been working to spread public-health messages in Guinea.
At a historic Security Council meeting, Ban Ki-moon noted that the number of Ebola cases is doubling every three weeks.
Characterizing Ebola as a national threat is part of a trend toward the “securitization of disease.”
The road to market is a long, brutish, and lined with failure.
“We cannot fool ourselves into thinking that the vast moat of the Atlantic Ocean will keep the flames away from our shores.”
2 minutes on the reasons behind this unprecedented Ebola epidemic.
Here’s what science and common sense say about the contentious raw milk debate.
A new PBS Nova documentary about vaccines airs this week
This poison surprise is actually good news. Here’s why.
The country’s program was a bigger success than expected.
The departure comes after safety issues at more than one federal agency.
Researchers have modeled the risk of Ebola spread beyond West Africa. Here’s what they found and why Obama is calling Ebola a “national security priority.”
Rick Sacra spent most of his career working as a medical missionary in Liberia, where he contracted the virus.
The current outbreak in West Africa is rewriting the Ebola rulebook, and leaving behind lessons for future outbreaks along with a record death toll.
If terrorists wanted to make another Black Death, how would it work?
The unnamed physician had been treating obstetrics patients in Liberia.
The World Health Organization has confirmed the two outbreaks are unrelated. Here’s where Ebola is likely to spread.
The number of deaths from the Ebola virus in 2014 has now exceeded the total number of recorded deaths from Ebola in history.
Genetic sequences of dozens of Ebola virus samples will provide much needed information for fighting the disease.
The NIH will start a phase one trial next month with three volunteers who have already enrolled in the experiment.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has reported several Ebola cases, and they appear unrelated to the outbreak in West Africa.
New Harvard poll shows that fear and misconceptions about the virus are spreading in America.
Here’s what it is and what it means.
They evolve so darned fast. Here’s why.
Why people are studying anthrax, and how things can go wrong