Infectious Disease

Does a warming Earth mean more sickness?

Over the past 100 years, Earth’s average temperature has increased by more than 1.5ºC, and the 10 hottest years ever recorded have all occurred since 2005. This seemingly small increase in temperature has caused major environmental changes, including ...

Infectious Disease September 24, 2021

The viruses that buzz around us

Despite some compelling arguments specialists might make for the ecological benefits of mosquitoes, to put it mildly they are generally an unloved species. But far from being a mere nuisance, from a public health perspective the mosquito is considered to be ...

Infectious Disease August 24, 2021

Getting the stains out

For the past century, diagnosing malaria infections in the developing countries where the disease is endemic has been a tedious and imperfect process. Armed with a field backpack, dedicated technicians perform pinpricks on patients and use microscopes to ...

Infectious Disease August 3, 2021

Wild adaptations

We humans are locked in an age-old, unending arms race against disease-causing bacteria, with resistant strains continuing to emerge that can fend off our best antibiotics. But bacteria themselves have waged a long back-and-forth war against the viruses that ...

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