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Science Apr 29

Why antibody tests, a crucial step toward overcoming COVID-19, are still unreliable

Health Mar 31

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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…

Arts Mar 18

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?…

By Joshua Barajas

Health Feb 14

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.

By Sam McNeil, Candice Choi, Associated Press

Health Oct 18

How Dracula draws on our biggest health fears

"Dracula" abounds with fascinating references to medicine of the day.

By Dr. Howard Markel

Aug 11

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Why southern China is a hotbed for disease development

By PBS NewsHour

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…

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May 28

Army chief: Human error likely not cause of anthrax mistake

By Robert Burns, Associated Press

The Army's top general says human error probably was not a factor in the inadvertent shipping of live anthrax to research laboratories.

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Mar 24

The day we discovered the cause of the ‘white death’

By Dr. Howard Markel

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?…

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Oct 18

Why your Ebola-like symptoms are probably the flu

By Andrew Mach

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…

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Aug 29

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Ebola outbreak started with funeral in Guinea, report finds

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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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