It happens often. I’m at a dinner party or book club meeting, and a new acquaintance asks me what I do. “I work in vaccine
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In depth looks at infectious disease topics
With two concurrent university-based outbreaks, meningitis is all over the health news. But what exactly is meningitis and why are we so worried about these
Two out of five. When public health officials make their rounds to encourage everyone six months of age and older to get the flu vaccine
Hi, I’m Jane. And I’m Robyn. We’re public health nerds with one very important thing in common: we’re passionate about vaccines. In the public health
Picture a dark and foggy night. Tall, nearly leafless trees loom around you, and newly fallen leaves whirl around your feet. The silhouette of a
This past summer, The Disease Daily reported on emerging and re-emerging tick-borne illnesses in the United States. Cases of Lyme disease have more than doubled
Between June and September, monsoon rains sweep across India, washing away the arid soil of the summer and irrigating the enormous rice fields that stretch
Few media-hyped events pose such a lurking, pit-of-your-stomach discomfort as the rapid, global emergence of a new disease. The sound of ambulance sirens, the sight
Leper (noun): a person who is ignored or despised. The leper is historically depicted as an outcast, a criminal, and most certainly someone to be
Spotlight Series: Kuru Although it is not expressly stated in the umbrella values of most dogmas or individual moral compasses, eating people is generally frowned