Tag: Infectious diseases
How do blood tests work? Medical laboratory scientists explain the pathway...
Rodney E. Rohde, Texas State University and Nicholas Moore, Rush University
Medical laboratory testing is the heartbeat of medicine....
Chickenpox and shingles virus lying dormant in your neurons can reactivate...
Andrew Bubak, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Over 90% of the world population has the virus that causes...
Bird flu has made a comeback, driving up prices for holiday turkeys
Yuko Sato, Iowa State University
An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza has spread through chicken and turkey flocks...
58% of human infectious diseases can be worsened by climate change...
Tristan McKenzie, University of Gothenburg; Camilo Mora, University of Hawaii, and Hannah von Hammerstein, University of Hawaii
Climate change...
Monkeypox is now a national public health emergency in the U.S....
Kathryn H. Jacobsen, University of Richmond
After news broke that the U.S. declared monkeypox to be a public health...
Polio in New York – an infectious disease doctor explains this...
William Petri, University of Virginia
The first case of polio in the U.S. since 2013 was announced by New...
What is monkeypox? A microbiologist explains what’s known about this smallpox...
Rodney E. Rohde, Texas State University
On May 18, 2022, Massachusetts health officials and the Centers for Disease Control...
Bird flu is killing millions of chickens and turkeys across the...
Yuko Sato, Iowa State University
An outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in chicken and turkey flocks has spread...
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...
