Don’t be surprised if you’ve never heard of Zika virus. It’s a relatively unknown mosquito-borne infection that causes only mild illness and is barely distinguishable
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At Rutgers University, my alma mater, saying that you have scarlet fever is a good thing. The state university of New Jersey is home to
There’s big news today in the world of public health professionals focused on immunization (or as I like to think of us, vaccinerds.) The updated
For the first time since 2007, a case of atypical Bovine spongiform Encephalitis (BSE) was identified in a beef cow in the German state of
As the polar vortex continues to bring frigid temperatures to many parts of the northeast, increasing reports of flu-related hospitalizations in Oregon have health officials
We’ve covered a lot of diseases over the past few years, but what we haven’t covered much of are the vectors that carry them. A
Throughout the month of December scientists have been working to determine the cause of twenty-nine bald eagle deaths in the state of Utah. Many of
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
During the month of December, the island nation of Madagascar reported cases of both bubonic and pneumonic plague. Mandritsara, a remote village in northeast Madagascar,
‘Tis the season for the obligatory “best of” lists for 2013. We thought we’d take a look back at some of this year’s notable outbreaks.