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Helen Branswell, STAT

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About Helen @HelenBranswell

Helen Branswell is STAT’s infectious diseases and public health reporter.

Helen’s Recent Stories

Nation Oct 20

Sexually transmitted diseases in U.S. at all-time high, CDC says

Rates of sexually transmitted diseases, such as syphilis and gonorrhea, have risen sharply in U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

Health Oct 01

The flu vaccine is set to get a makeover

The World Health Organization recommended that flu vaccine manufacturers swap out a component based on one flu virus with an updated version.

Health Sep 29

Do flu shots still work?

Are flu shots worth the bother? Influenza vaccine experts to break down what we’ve learned lately about the remedies.

Health Sep 21

UN leaders to put superbugs on world stage

Heads of state will gather this week to address perhaps the biggest health threat the world faces: the growing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics and superbugs.

Health Sep 12

Hillary Clinton, and what you need to know about pneumonia

Here’s what you need to know about pneumonia.

Science Aug 27

Genetically modified mosquitoes have wide support in Florida

Most people in Florida — the first US state to experience local spread of the Zika virus — favor the use of genetically modified mosquitoes to combat spread of the virus, a new poll suggests.

Health Aug 22

D.A. Henderson, who led successful effort to eradicate smallpox, dies

Henderson, a few weeks shy of his 88th birthday, died late Friday of complications that arose after he recently fractured a hip.

Health Aug 19

Zika virus may now be spreading in Miami Beach

Late Thursday afternoon health authorities were working to finalize the area that would be covered by a new travel advisory for Zika virus from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Health Aug 09

Big pharmaceutical companies reluctant to produce Zika vaccine

The bulk of the work is being done by U.S. and Brazilian government research teams and smaller biotech companies. That matters: Small biotechs generally lack the money and expertise to take an experimental vaccine from the idea stage to a…

Health Jul 16

Gonorrhea may soon become resistant to all antibiotics and untreatable

The Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria may be developing resistance to the only two antibiotics left that can cure the sexually transmitted disease.

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