Epidemics and Politics: Can Haiti Learn From History?
Demonstrators in Haiti have been protesting an outbreak of cholera, which has killed more than 1,000 people and has hospitalized more than 16,000 in the past month. The riots began on Monday in...
View ArticleHaitian Cholera Epidemic Spreading Fast
UN officials announced this week that cholera is now projected to spread across Haiti more than twice as fast as originally estimated, with more than 425,000 cases expected in the first six months...
View ArticleWar Against Ebola Rages On in Liberia
On Thursday, a moment of progress was revealed in the fight against the Ebola outbreak, which has claimed the lives of more than 1,300 people.“Today is a miraculous day," said Dr. Kent Brantly, the...
View ArticleDallas Ebola Patient Came in Contact With 80 People
In Dallas, Texas, the case of an Ebola patient has sparked broader scrutiny over the handling of his case at the local hospital, which has potentially put up to 80 people at risk.Thomas E. Duncan is a...
View ArticleFears of Ebola Touch Liberians in U.S.
The death of Ebola patient Thomas Duncan in Dallas is reverberating across communities in West Africa and the United States. Communities of Liberians, as well as people from Sierra Leone, Nigeria,...
View ArticleYou Don't Have Ebola. You're Not Going to Get It.
Worries about Ebola may be contributing to the sliding stock market. But despite all of the fear and the media coverage, it is still highly unlikely that anyone in the U.S. will be infected with...
View Article'Station Eleven' and The End of the World as We Know It
Nearly every day in the news, there are moments when something in the headlines gives us pause or strikes fear into our hearts. What if the latest outbreak or attack isn't just another headline, but...
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Revenge of the Caterpillars: A Footnote to “Contagious Laughter”
As a grad student who is writing my dissertation on the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic of 1962, I am partial to one particular Radiolab segment … on the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic of 1962.For those of...
View ArticleFlu Outbreak 101
Dr. Kent Sepkowitz, infectious disease specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a columnist for The Daily Beast, explains the science behind the flulike epidemic sweeping the...
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The 1957 pandemic: Not the Flu We Knew
Beginning in February 1957, a new influenza strain virus (known to virologists as H2N2) emerged in China. Throughout April, May, and June, it spread steadily and rapidly across Asian and Middle...
View ArticleTask Force to Address Opiates 'Epidemic'
A legislative task force in New York is taking a look at ways to address the dramatic rise in heroin and prescription opiates abuse.Suffolk County State Senator Phil Boyle is chairman of the bipartisan...
View ArticlePut away the plastic sheets and duct tape — there's no Ebola outbreak coming...
The death of Liberian American traveler Patrick Sawyer stoked fears that the Ebola virus could cross the Atlantic. But despite the wide spread of the disease in West Africa, it has almost no chance of...
View ArticleStoryCorps 394: No Comfort
Epidemiologists Anne Purfield (L) and Michelle Dynes (R) talk about responding to the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.
View ArticleStoryCorps 405: Still Standing
Ruth Coker Burks tells her friend Paul Wineland about caring for AIDS patients during the early days of the epidemic, when no one else would.
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Map: Do you live in an area where Zika could strike?
Global environmental suitability for Zika virus, ranging from low (0, grey) to high (1, red). Illustration and caption by Messina et al., eLife, (2016)A third of the world’s population is at risk of...
View ArticleAnthrax, Ebola, Zika and Future Emerging Epidemics
For over 20 years at the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Ali S. Khan, who served as the director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (PHPR), investigated infectious diseases and...
View ArticleHow Much of a Threat is the Zika Virus?
Zika became a cause for global concern in last year when previously-infected women started giving birth to babies with microcephaly. New York Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. joins us to...
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Ebola vaccine results are encouraging — but preliminary
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioThe post Ebola vaccine results are encouraging — but preliminary appeared first on PBS NewsHour.
View ArticleComey Firing Fallout; NJ Governor's Race: Mark Zinna; Negotiating with ISIS
Coming up on today's show:Jerrold Nadler, U.S. Representative (NY-10), reacts to the firing of FBI Director James Comey.David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, reports on...
View ArticleNJ Governor's Race: Raymond Lesniak; 'Did We Go Through a Plague For...
Coming up on today's show:Raymond Lesniak, State Senator from Union County who has served in the state Legislature since 1978 and a veteran attorney, makes his case to be the next governor of New...
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