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Drug Flags Malaria-Infected Cells For Destruction
In the BloodCDC via WikimediaThis microscope image shows cells of the microbe that causes malaria hanging out among blood cells.Malaria, that tricky beast, has become resistant to the medicines that...
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Climate Change May Be Helping Infectious Diseases Spread To New Places And Hosts
Howler MonkeyPhoto courtesy Daniel Brooks PhotographyIn parts of Costa Rica, howler monkeys like this one have picked up parasites once only found in capuchin and spider monkeys.Infectious disease...
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The World Health Organization Wants Everybody To Use Smart Syringes By 2020
SyringePhoto by Partha S. Sahana on Flickr, CC BY 2.0By 2020, the World Health Organization wants every hospital and clinic to use only “smart syringes” that are designed so they can’t be used more...
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Do Microbes Get Stressed?
Bacteria-specific viruses called phages are one of many things that may stress out bacteriaGraham Beards Welcome back. Here is the second part of my three-part series on stress, in which I explore...
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The Month In Plagues: Parasitic Worm Sex, Lemony Malaria, And More
Red blood cell infected with malaria parasite (colorized in blue)NIAID/Flickr Your monthly roundup of infestations, contagions, and controls from around the web: In outbreak newsThe Ebola outbreak...
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150 Years After the Civil War: Reflections on Medical Care
Andersonville National Cemetery in Georgia, Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil WarKen Lund/Flickr Today is the sesquicentennial of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at the Appomattox...
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The Month In Plagues: Food Poisoning Scares, Bee Woes, And More
Drug-resistant Shigella, which cause food poisoning, are found in the U.S.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Your monthly roundup of infestations, contagions, and controls from around the web....
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The Month In Plagues: Rubella Wiped From The Americas, No You Don’t Have Poop...
Getting vaccinated for rubella in ParaguayPan American Health Organization Your monthly roundup of infestations, contagions, and controls from around the web. In outbreak news:On May 9th, Liberia...
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New Polio Case Confirmed In Mali
Electron micrograph of the poliovirus.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The World Health Organization reported today that a 19-month-old boy in Mali has polio. The child came to Mali from...
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How Do You Know If You Have A Tickborne Illness?
A tick takes a bite. What pathogens may be lurking in it?Mislav Marohnić/Flickr When you think of illnesses spread by ticks, Lyme disease probably comes to mind. It makes sense. After all, it’s...
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Pharma Company Backs Off 5,000-Percent Price Hike Amid Backlash
Toxoplasma gondiiTotodu74/Wikimedia Commons CC By SA 2.0According to the CDC, more than 60 million people in the United States may be infected with the Toxoplasma parasite, which is spread through cat...
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The Month In Plagues: Dengue In India, Ancient Plague Fleas, And More
This flea preserved about 20 million years ago in amber may carry evidence of an ancestral strain of the bubonic plague.George Poinar, Jr., courtesy of Oregon State UniversityYour monthly roundup of...
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The Month In Plagues: Dengue Fever In Hawaii, Gene Drive Mosquitoes, And More
Scientists have used a gene drive to spread malaria-resistant genes through populations of Anopheles stephensi, a mosquitoCenters for Disease Control and Prevention Your monthly roundup of...
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The Year In Plagues: The Last Antibiotic, The Gene Editing Era, And More
NIAID/FlickrBacteria is proving resistant to the last-resort antibiotic--used to treat infections from E. coli (pictured) and other gram-negative bacteria.I know, I know: Another end-of-the-year list....
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The Month In Plagues: Zika Virus, Bugs In Your Home, And More
From Our Blogs: Our Modern Plagues A plague of links from around the web Your monthly roundup of infestations, contagions, and controls.
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The Month In Plagues: Sexually-Transmitted Zika, New Lyme Disease Cause, And...
From Our Blogs: Our Modern Plagues A plague of links from around the web A monthly round-up of diseases, creepy crawlies, and more.
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The W.H.O Says Sexual Transmission Of Zika Is More Common Than They Thought
Health And women in Zika-stricken areas should have birth control available At a press conference today, W.H.O officials said that sexual transmission of the Zika virus is more common than previously...
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Why are scientists so obsessed with studying zombies?
Science Just because zombies aren’t real doesn’t mean we can’t learn from them Zombies can help us understand how infectious diseases spread, teach us about math or neuroscience, and improve our...
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