epidemiology

Several large stickers are shown on the floor with yellow and black arrows with a person standing on one arrow going the opposite direction.
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: The mental health impacts of reopening society
A woman sings while holding a music book in her hands in a soccer field six-feet away from another singer.
COVID-19
Choirs in the age of coronavirus: A new study looks at the risks of singing
Parents wait with their children to enter their elementary school in Sderot as it reopens following the ease of restrictions preventing the spread of the coronavirus in Israel, May 3, 2020.
Israel’s hurried school reopenings serve as a cautionary tale
A medical worker in protective suit checks a patient's records at Jinyintan hospital in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, in Hubei province, China, Feb. 13, 2020. 
Climate Change
Climate change will make animal-borne diseases more challenging to predict
Doctors help each other with their protective suits during an Ebola virus drill in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Health
An epidemiologist in Monrovia describes hazmat training — from hand washing to elbow bumps
Ebola evacuation
Health
An epidemiologist suggests we take cues from the AIDS crisis in dealing with Ebola
An endangered mountain gorilla rests inside a forest in a Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Rwanada.
Health
We still don’t know for sure how Ebola reached humans
Fruit bats like the ones pictured here are often key vectors for diseases like Ebola, and disturbing their habitats may have made humans more vulnerable.
Environment
Here’s how cutting down West African trees made us vulnerable to Ebola
Some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion is revealed in this undated handout colorized transmission electron micrograph.
Health
The current Ebola outbreak is huge, but at least it’s not spreading particularly quickly
Global Scan
Avian flu kills a Canadian, and more in today’s global scan
Health & Medicine
The next pandemic – Are we ready?
Health & Medicine
Monitoring infectious diseases online, on Twitter, gives early warning of outbreaks
Environment
For species dependent on monsoon flooding in desert southwest, mosquitoes unwelcome competition
Health & Medicine
Government urges caution as scientists release study on gene mutations in bird flu virus
Health & Medicine
Book traces history of AIDS back to 1930s, examines current outbreak’s history
Health & Medicine
Book warns that deadly pandemic may not be far off
Health & Medicine
Killing a killer disease
Health & Medicine
Sitting too much can be deadly
Health & Medicine
Swine flu Q&A
Health & Medicine
The swine flu explained
Business, Economics and Jobs
Google tracking global health outbreaks
Arts, Culture & Media
Tweets and Germs: Monitoring Infectious Diseases Online
Global Politics
Cause for Concern Beyond China? Laurie Garrett on the H7N9 Flu
Global Politics
20,000 Birds Slaughtered in Shanghai to Prevent Spread of Avian Flu
Arts, Culture & Media
Playing Against The Virus
Arts, Culture & Media
Reconstructing Viruses
Health & Medicine
Animal Infections That Spill Over Into Humans
One-Third of US Homeless Population is Obese, According to New Study
Tracking Pandemics by Computer
H5N1 Research Moratorium
When Is It Acceptable to Censor Science?
Citing Bioterrorism Fears, US Asks Journals to Censor Bird Flu Study
The Origin of AIDS: 60 Years Before the First Documented Case
Cleveland Cancer Cluster
Sperm Re-count
Evolutionary Medicine: Rethinking the Origins of Disease
Who Owns Life?
Have a Heart
Have a Heart!
Hunting for the Next Pandemic
Bird Flu Update
Ready or Not
Emerging Science Note/Follow the Money
Cities Get Ready
Bird Flu Update
Avian Flu
Avian Flu
Department B/Health Note
Health Note
Health Update
Arts, Culture & Media
Digital first responders fight cholera in Haiti
Arts, Culture & Media
Don’t panic! Pandemics and epidemics throughout history
Health & Medicine
Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe says we could have detected swine flu earlier
Business, Economics and Jobs
How prepared are the states for a swine flu pandemic?
Health & Medicine
What is a ‘Phase Five’ swine flu threat?
Global Politics
Outbreak of rare disease in the Netherlands
Arts, Culture & Media
Google tracking global health problems