Tag: disease
How deforestation helps deadly viruses jump from animals to humans
Amy Y. Vittor, University of Florida; Gabriel Zorello Laporta, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, and Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, Universidade de São Paulo
The coronavirus...
You don’t need to worry about spreading the coronavirus with cash
Marilyn Roberts, University of Washington
Some people worry that cash may be spreading the coronavirus.
Earlier this year, both China and South Korea began sterilizing their...
Your blood type may influence your vulnerability to norovirus, the winter...
Patricia L. Foster, Indiana University
In the last few months, schools all over the country have closed because of outbreaks of norovirus. Also known as...
A tick detective wants to understand what drives tick abundance
David Allen, Middlebury
The Abstract features interesting research and the people behind it.
David Allen is an assistant professor in biology at Middlebury College who studies...
Bacteria live on our eyeballs — and understanding their role could...
Tony St. Leger, University of Pittsburgh
You may be familiar with the idea that your gut and skin are home to a collection of microbes...
Why it’s so difficult for scientists to predict the next outbreak...
C. Brandon Ogbunu, Brown University; Randall Harp, University of Vermont, and Samuel V. Scarpino, Northeastern University
A two-year-old boy in rural Guinea died of Ebola...
2015, the year the was: health and medicine
Jessie Schanzle, The Conversation
As we eye a brand new year, it’s good to look back and see what stories 2015 brought us. Here is...
Sex education at school means students have sex safer and later
Wendy MacDowall, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Lessons at school have become the most common source of information about sexual matters for young...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
