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Oct 24, 2014

Ebola Panic in Small-Town New Jersey

by John Stillman

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Oct 14, 2014

The Rats Among Us

On Tuesday, Dr. Lipkin and his colleagues published their initial results in the journal mBio. Although the scientists examined just 133 rats, they found plenty of pathogens. Some caused food-borne illnesses. Others, like Seoul hantavirus, had never before been found in New York. Others were…

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Oct 13, 2014

Pathogen Privilege

Amanda Uhry, who runs a consultancy called Manhattan Private School Advisors, which, as its name suggests, helps parents through the private-school application process, said she recently turned down a half-dozen clients when she discovered that they were opposed to vaccination. For a long while…

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Jul 30, 2014

The Ebola Franchise

An Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed over 650 people, making it easily the deadliest in the disease’s relatively…

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Jun 20, 2014

Ebola and You

An outbreak of Ebola is on track to become the largest in history, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. There are now over 500…

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Jun 17, 2014

Cures for Afflicted Children

by Noah Kulwin

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May 5, 2014

Every Old Disease Is New Again

Good morning to you too, World Health Organization:

After discussion and…

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Nov 26, 2012

New Horror Virus Kills Two As Infections Double

If you’re wondering whether any new SARS-like virus killed people in the Middle East over the long American holiday weekend, the answer is yes. The coronavirus, only discovered by researchers in September, is the confirmed cause of death for…

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Jul 9, 2012

Florida Will Kill Us All

Florida is going to stop killing itself person-by-person and will begin to eventually kill us all. While Rick Scott’s government kept a horrifying TB outbreak secret (while ordering the closure of the hospital that treated such!), let us not forget dengue fever outbreaks in the Keys…

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Sep 1, 2011

First We Fire All the Doctors (With Unwashed Hands)

“Changing the message from ‘Wash Your Hands to Protect Yourself’ to ‘Wash Your Hands to Protect Your Patients,’ the study found, could motivate some doctors and nurses to wash their hands more frequently.”
— I guess. Or, you know, they…