Early this month, two studies were published in Science and The Lancet, each with evidence of artemisinin-resistance along the Thailand-Myanmar border. If this strain of
Author: Anna Tomasulo
On March 11, American Staff Sgt. Robert Bales allegedly killed 17 Afghan civilians. Amidst the media buzz, reporters, psychiatrists, and even Bales’s lawyer, wonder
In his essay, “We, the Web Kids,” Polish poet and pundit Piotr Czerski writes: “We don’t use the Internet…we live on the Internet and along
A new type of rabies was discovered this week by scientists at the University of Glasgow and the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA).
I wager that last week, your twitter feed was dominated by tweets tagged #StopKony or #Kony2012. If you don’t use twitter, perhaps Kony bombarded you
Since the beginning of 2012, the West African nation of Nigeria has been battling Lassa fever. The disease has reached 12 states and killed 40
Scientists, collecting yellow-shouldered bats from Guatemala for rabies research; discovered something completely unexpected: genetic traces of influenza A in the bats’ intestines. While the
Alaskan public health officials were shocked as they produced the reports of HIV and syphilis cases from this past year. Susan Jones, Alaska’s HIV/STD program
According to The Bay Area Reporter and to preliminary data from the Department of Public Health’s STD Prevention and Control Section, cases of gonorrhea in
The southern African nation of Zimbabwe has been dealing with an outbreak of typhoid since early November 2011. With reportedly 30 to 50 new cases