Tag: Viruses
What is a super spreader? An infectious disease expert explains
Elizabeth McGraw, Pennsylvania State University
As the emerging Wuhan coronavirus outbreak dominates the daily news, you might be wondering just how the pathogen is working...
Snakes could be the original source of the new coronavirus outbreak...
Haitao Guo, University of Pittsburgh; Guangxiang “George” Luo, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Shou-Jiang Gao, University of Pittsburgh
Snakes – the Chinese krait and...
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...
Why the flu shot cannot give you the flu (and why...
Libby Richards, Purdue University
Flu vaccination prevents millions of flu-related illnesses and deaths annually, but vaccination rates are low for many reasons.
During the 2018-2019 flu...
A newly designed vaccine may help stamp out remaining polio cases...
Patricia L. Foster, Indiana University
Public health organizations around the world have been fighting for global eradication of polio since 1988. Through massive vaccination efforts,...
Sewage surveillance is the next frontier in the fight against polio
Marisa Eisenberg, University of Michigan; Andrew Brouwer, University of Michigan, and Joseph Eisenberg, University of Michigan
The world is at the brink of eradicating polio....
Discovery of a surprise multitasking gene helps explain how new functions...
Katherine L. Petrie, University of California San Diego and Justin Meyer, University of California San Diego
Evolutionary biologists like us try to figure out how...
Influenza’s wild origins in the animals around us
Jonathan Runstadler, Tufts University
In the early 20th century, the leading cause of death was infectious disease. Epidemics erupted with little warning, seemingly out of...
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...
