Opinion: FDA needs to fully review ACAM2000 before allowing its widespread use as a monkeypox vaccine
As the United States grapples with monkeypox, which has been declared a public health emergency,…
Category: infectious disease
Opinion: Decriminalizing HIV: Scientifically proven and morally correct
One hundred thirty-four. That’s the number of countries that currently criminalize or prosecute people based…
With support on monkeypox hard to come by, queer communities turn to one another
Tri Vo knew that he had monkeypox before his test came back — what started…
What scientists know — and don’t know — about how monkeypox spreads
The explosive trajectory of monkeypox to nearly 90 countries since the current outbreak was detected…
As monkeypox spreads, university campuses prepare for another outbreak
Public health experts are urging universities to prepare for the arrival of monkeypox before students…
U.S. moves to stretch out supplies of monkeypox vaccine
The Biden administration announced Tuesday that the United States will allow for the use of…
Opinion: Will low-dose vaccination stretch the monkeypox vaccine supply, or backfire?
The U.S. heath secretary recently declared monkeypox as a public health emergency, paving the way…
Study connects climate hazards to 58% of infectious diseases
Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves, and drought have worsened more than half of…
Opinion: The U.S. must fully fund global polio eradication efforts
Reports that a man in his 20s in New York state contracted polio and detection…
Polioviruses found in wastewater samples in 2 N.Y. counties, suggesting continued spread
New York State health authorities revealed Thursday that they had detected additional polioviruses in wastewater…
U.S. declares monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency
The Biden administration declared the ongoing monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency on Thursday, a…
With monkeypox vaccine in high demand, NIH to test approaches to stretch supplies
As the monkeypox outbreak continues to grow, one thing seems abundantly clear. The global need…
Monoclonal antibody treatment for malaria shows encouraging results
An experimental antibody treatment prevented malaria in the majority of participants in a small but…
Red Cross beginning to screen blood donors for monkeypox
As monkeypox continues its relentless spread around the globe, organizations in the U.S. are taking…
Opinion: Inching closer to an essential global pandemic treaty
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently declared monkeypox a public health emergency of…
The campaign to rename monkeypox gets complicated
Since the earliest days of the current global monkeypox outbreak, scientists and public health authorities…
U.S. polio case tied to viruses detected in U.K., Israel, suggesting silent spread
Genetic analysis of the virus responsible for the first case of polio in the United…
Listen: Helen Branswell on monkeypox, plus: an FDA controversy and fake Alzheimer’s data
Can monkeypox be contained? Are snortable Covid-19 vaccines on the way? And when is a…
Bacterium that causes rare but dangerous disease likely endemic along Gulf Coast, CDC says
Disease detectives investigating a pair of medical mysteries in Mississippi have come to an unwelcome…
WHO recommends men who have sex with men reduce sex partners to limit monkeypox risk
Men who have sex with men should consider reducing the number of sexual partners they…
What to know about polio, a disease once again vying for attention
Depending on how young you are, your mother may remember polio. Your grandmother, though, would…
New studies offer theory on cause of unusual hepatitis cases in kids
There is a new theory about what may be causing puzzling cases of pediatric hepatitis…
WHO declares monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency
The World Health Organization on Saturday declared the unprecedented monkeypox outbreak that has spread around…
N.Y. state detects polio case, first in the U.S. since 2013
New York State reported Thursday that it has detected a case of vaccine-derived polio in…
With monkeypox spreading globally, many experts believe the virus can’t be contained
It has been a mere nine weeks since the United Kingdom announced it had detected…
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Opinion: How dating apps could help stop the spread of sexually transmissible infections
Sexually transmissible infections are on the rise across the United States. But it’s not just…
Citing risk from Omicron variant BA.5, White House urges Americans to get Covid-19 boosters
The Biden administration on Tuesday urged the public to strengthen their protections against Covid-19, noting…
Opinion: Improve CDC’s quarantine stations to prevent the next pandemic
In today’s interconnected world, people, packages, and animals can circumnavigate the globe in less than…
FDA recommends vaccine makers update Covid-19 shots to target Omicron
The Food and Drug Administration is advising vaccine makers to reformulate their Covid-19 shots to…
Tracking an FDA advisory panel meeting on updating Covid vaccines
Meetings of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccines advisory committee are never dull affairs. Drenched…
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Opinion: The next epidemic may be here. The U.S. isn’t ready for it
As if dealing with continued waves of Covid-19 isn’t enough, the U.S. is facing a…
Opinion: Looking for ‘black swan’ outbreaks can prepare for future pandemics
In December 2021, one year into the Covid-19 pandemic, my colleague Alina Deshpande had the…
Opinion: Arthur Ashe and AIDS: Did the public have the right to know his diagnosis?
Do prominent public figures who are ill have some type of responsibility to reveal their…
WHO: Monkeypox outbreak not yet a global public health emergency
The World Health Organization on Saturday declined to declare the unprecedented monkeypox outbreak that has…
Opinion: Signals from monkeypox: Create an external advisory group to start preparing for the next pandemic
As the U.S. reels from a more than 1 million reported deaths due directly to…
Opinion: Congress: Fund PrEP to end the HIV epidemic
As the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies…
Opinion: Never forget that early vaccines came from testing on enslaved people
In response to the growing spread of monkeypox, public health leaders are for the first…
A CDC study seeks to provide clues to seeming surge of hepatitis cases in kids
When previously healthy little kids started showing up in hospitals with failing livers last fall…
WHO to convene emergency committee on monkeypox spread
The World Health Organization announced Tuesday that it will convene a meeting of outside experts…
STAT+: GSK says RSV vaccine for older adults ‘offers exceptional protection’
GSK said Friday that its RSV vaccine showed “statistically significant and clinically meaningful efficacy” in…
How much medicine does the U.S. actually have to fight monkeypox?
WASHINGTON — As the world grapples with a monkeypox outbreak, the Biden administration has been quick…
How the hard lessons of the AIDS crisis are shaping the response to the monkeypox outbreak
As officials, researchers and activists scramble to control an emerging monkeypox outbreak, many are doing…
‘Testing bottleneck’ for monkeypox puts hope of containment at risk, experts warn
Infectious disease specialists are growing increasingly concerned by the U.S. strategy for testing for monkeypox,…
Opinion: Monkeypox is recapitulating the stigma and structural inequity of HIV, Ebola, and other diseases
Pathogens have a way of shining a light on the darker facets of society. SARS-CoV-2…
What the surprising mutations in the monkeypox virus could indicate about the new outbreak
When scientists investigate the spread of an infectious disease, one area they look at is…
‘Nobody wants to mess this up’: A WHO official weighs in on the challenges of responding to monkeypox
The expanding monkeypox outbreak is posing enormous communications challenges for public health authorities keen to…
Monkeypox outbreak poses ‘moderate risk’ to global public health, WHO says
The ongoing monkeypox outbreak currently poses a moderate risk to global public health, the World…
On the lookout for monkeypox, CDC considers expanding test capacity
With the United States on the lookout for more monkeypox cases, federal health officials this…
Warning signs ahead of monkeypox outbreak went unheeded, experts say
Monkeypox appears to have exploded out of nowhere in the past two weeks, spreading across…
Child’s autopsy from 2008 becomes a clue to mystifying polio-like illness
Within days, the boy went from having cold symptoms to being unable to walk. To…