In the chaos of delayed responses to the Ebola crisis in West Africa, patterns emerged in data from five treatment centers across two of the three most affected countries: While women were less likely to come to an Ebola treatment center, those who did were likelier to be sick with the virus; Ebola patients between […]
HIV
The Berlin patient has died of cancer Timothy Ray Brown had been telling his story for a couple of years when he first was covered in […]
Tuberculosis
In the six weeks before South Africa responded its first diagnoses of COVID-19 with the start of physical distancing measures, more than 47,000 people on average […]
Research & Development
With 2018 data showing highest incidence acute flaccid myelitis since monitoring began, officials say awareness, recognition of rare life threatening condition will be crucial to early […]
Policy
By Karen Carvajal, M.D. Over the course of human history we have come a long way in our fight against the threat of infectious diseases and, […]