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Pandemic! 10 of the Deadliest Diseases
Stylish and Sterile in Shanghai DearTerisa (CC Licensed) View Photo Gallery What makes a disease deadly in the twenty-first century? Medicine has never been more advanced; our understanding of spread...
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A Cure for the Uncommon Flu
The H5N1 Virus Quiplash! (CC Licensed) Ninety years ago the Spanish flu swept across the globe, killing between 50 and 100 million people in only a few months. Since then, the specter of another flu...
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The Five Diseases You Should Worry About
A primer to the next population-threatening pandemic MalariaSpread by: MosquitoesKill rate: 0.2%Death toll: 1 million+ per year As climate change makes parts of the globe warmer and wetter,...
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The Five Diseases You Should Worry About
Disease Map Graham Murdoch (See it bigger!) View Photo GalleryLast May, scientists met in Geneva, Switzerland, to update the World Health Organization's plans for pandemic preparedness. It looks like...
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Instant Expert: the Return of Swine Flu
Flu season in the Southern Hemisphere is almost over—and now it's heading back our way. At the time this issue went to press, there were more than 162,000 confirmed cases and 1,154 deaths worldwide...
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Racing to Save Bats From Catastrophic Extinction, Biologists Turn to New Tools
Little Brown Bat This little brown bat was photographed in Vermont's Greeley Mine March 26, 2009. White-nose fungus is evident on its face and wings. Marvin Moriarty/USFWS Tom Kunz has been studying...
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What You Need To Know About The New Bird Flu
In A Meat Market Caged domestic pigeons in a meat market in eastern China. This photo was taken in 2009, in a location several hours north by car from the provinces where confirmed H7N9 cases have...
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New Type Of Bird Flu Kills Woman In China
Bird Market Domestic pigeons in a live poultry market in eastern China. Photo taken in 2009. felibrilu on Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0A 73-year-old woman in China has died after contracting an entirely new...
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Found: First U.S. Patient To Get MERS Without Traveling To The Middle East
Camel Scientists have found camels are almost certainly the source of Middle East respiratory syndrome in humans. This camel was photographed in Australia in 2007. Photo by John O'Neill on Wikimedia...
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Why The CDC Thinks 1.4 Million People Might Contract Ebola By February
Laboratory Examination Of Ebola © Luchschen / Dreamstime.com Last June, the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone built a temporary ward in anticipation of an influx of Ebola patients. The...
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U.S. To Stop Funding Superviruses, For Now
Virus Research Security A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist performs H5N1 flu research in a biosafety level 3 lab. Scientists perform H7N9 gain-of-function studies in a...
View ArticleInstant Expert: the Return of Swine Flu
Flu season in the Southern Hemisphere is almost overâand now it's heading back our way. At the time this issue went to press, there were more than 162,000 confirmed cases…
View ArticleMathematical Model Analyzes Facebook Networks to Prioritize Who Should...
With vaccine supplies limited, social butterflies on Facebook could find themselves targeted for real-world injections. Stanford University researchers have created an…
View ArticleRacing to Save Bats From Catastrophic Extinction, Biologists Turn to New Tools
Tom Kunz has been studying bats throughout New England for more than four decades. In annual treks to remote caves, he and other researchers from Boston University capture…
View ArticleWhat You Need To Know About The New Bird Flu
There have been some new developments in China's struggle with bird flu over the past two days, including another confirmed death and a scientific report from Chinese…
View ArticleNew Type Of Bird Flu Kills Woman In China
A 73-year-old woman in China has died after contracting an entirely new bird flu virus, researchers from China reported yesterday. The new virus is an H10N8 flu, and this…
View ArticleFound: First U.S. Patient To Get MERS Without Traveling To The Middle East
After officials found the U.S.'s first case of the deadly virus MERS, they began tracking down everybody who had had contact with the man. Now they're announcing their…
View ArticleFour Predictions About The Ebola Outbreak
The latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that 128 more West Africans have contracted Ebola since Sunday, bringing the total number of cases to 1,975,…
View ArticleWhy The CDC Thinks 1.4 Million People Might Contract Ebola By February
Last June, the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone built a temporary ward in anticipation of an influx of Ebola patients. The makeshift building was covered with thin, tin metal sheets,...
View ArticleU.S. To Stop Funding Superviruses, For Now
The White House has shifted course on an important question in medical researchâor at least dropped anchor. The Obama administration announced a "pause" Friday of federal…
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