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Why scientists need to learn more about how COVID-19 behaves within a human body
How much do we know about COVID-19, the virus spreading misery across the globe? Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss understanding the dynamics of the virus within people it has infected, why some experience much more severe forms…
I toured this exhibit on epidemics before the coronavirus pandemic shut it down
On the second floor of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, a placard at the end of an exhibit asks a question we all may be thinking right now, in the middle of a global health emergency: What’s next?…
Coronavirus renews safety concerns about slaughtering wild animals
Experts say wild animals can carry unknown viruses and that human contact with them needs to more carefully managed as the world's population grows.
How Dracula draws on our biggest health fears
"Dracula" abounds with fascinating references to medicine of the day.
Pandemics like Zika and Ebola can originate in one continent and quickly spread to another. To stop outbreaks before they start, scientists are trying to identify regions conducive to the development of new disease. One target is southern China, where…
The Army's top general says human error probably was not a factor in the inadvertent shipping of live anthrax to research laboratories.
Robert Koch’s greatest evening unfolded 133 years ago today, when he solved the riddle that had plagued doctors for centuries: what, exactly, caused tuberculosis?…
Just as the 2009 swine flu pandemic drove up trips to the ER by nearly 20 percent even in areas where the illness had still not yet appeared, cold and flu season this year and the height of Ebola in…
The Ebola virus has now reached a fifth country. Officials announced a Guinean student in Senegal was confirmed to have the disease. Meanwhile, a new report traces the deadly outbreak to a funeral in Guinea near the Sierra Leone border.
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