Tag: outbreak
US workplaces are nowhere near ready to contain a coronavirus outbreak
Karen Scott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The new coronavirus has spread rapidly around the globe since its discovery late last year in China. It has...
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...
3 moral reasons why parents need to get their children vaccinated...
Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The U.S. hit a terrible and entirely preventable milestone this week: Measles cases are at a 25-year high....
A frenemy fungus provides clues about a new deadly one
Carol A Kumamoto, Tufts University and Jesus A. Romo, Tufts University
It seems like every few years there’s a virus or bacterium that threatens human...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Paving paradise: Dismantling the US Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife,...
Mariah Meek, Michigan State University and Travis Belote, Montana State University
Pause for a moment and listen. What do...
