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A sign reminding customers about social distancing is placed at the entrance to a grocery store in central Stockholm.
COVID-19
Sweden’s pivot toward new virus restrictions may not ‘shift mindsets,’ says Swedish scientist
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
A child is given an oral vaccine.
Health & Medicine
A newly designed vaccine may help stamp out remaining polio cases worldwide
Arts, Culture & Media
Our Computers, Our Viruses, Our Selves
Arts, Culture & Media
The Flame Alphabet
Virus TEM
Health
It’s raining viruses, but don’t panic
A particular type of UV light, shown here with a scintillator composed of plastics, could revolutionize the practices of flu prevention.
Health
A cure for the flu? It could be as simple as sitting under a lamp.
Health
Studying splashes to learn more about how disease spreads
The Ebola virus might remain present in body fluids including semen longer than previously thought.
Medicine
Unravelling an ‘epidemiological mystery’ about the transmission of Ebola in semen
A baboon stakes out a walkway near the entrance of Tanzania's Udzungwa National Park. With human settlement at the base of the still wild Udzungwa Mountains growing fast, humans and wild animals are coming into ever more frequent contact, creating what on
Environment
To prevent the next Ebola, scientists try to catch new viruses before they break out
This color-coded image shows the surface view of enterovirus D68. Red regions are the highest peaks, and the lowest portions are blue. In the black-and-white background are actual electron microscopy images of the EV-D68 virus.
Medicine
Why have some American kids been paralyzed for a year? Doctors are trying to find out.
A mural in Monrovia illustrating health instructions for treating the Ebola virus.
Health
Liberians worry that next week’s elections might spread Ebola
Edward Turay, Sierra Leone's High Commissioner to Britain, attends the "Defeating Ebola: Sierra Leone" conference in central London on October 2, 2014.
Health
Ebola cases are soaring in Sierra Leone, and the government is coming up short
Scanning electron micrograph of HIV particles infecting a human H9 T cell, colorized in blue, turqoise, and yellow.
Science
A new study suggests the HIV virus may be getting weaker
A health worker checks the temperature of a man at a roadside medical checkpoint outside Ganta, Liberia.
Health
How Liberians confronting Ebola manage to keep calm while Americans panic
Health workers wearing protective equipment are pictured at the Island Clinic in Monrovia, Liberia on September 30, 2014, where patients are treated for Ebola.
Health
Even in the US, a doctor who treats Ebola is treated like a ‘half hero, half pariah’
An ambulance enters the emergency area at the Alcorcón hospital outside Madrid. The Spanish nurse who contracted Ebola while treating infected patients is currently in isolation at the facility.
Media
There’s a fine line between reporting about Ebola and spreading panic
A man washes his hands at a facility outside the Green Pharmacy, Area 8, in Abuja, Nigeria on September 1, 2014.
Health
Precautions against Ebola are simple, but hard to guarantee every single time
Bernice Dahn, Liberia's chief medical officer and deputy health minister, has put herself in quarantine as a precaution against Ebola after one of her assistants died from the disease.
Health
Liberia’s top doctor quarantines herself to set an example in her Ebola-ridden country
Ane Bjøru Fjeldsæter, an MSF Mental Health Manager from Norway, poses with six-year-old Ebola survivor Patrick.
Health
Ebola forges a bond between a young boy and the psychologist who helped him
A student at Goverment Secondary School Garki washes her hands, as school resumed in Abuja, Nigeria, in late September.
Health
Here’s one reason Nigeria has halted the spread of Ebola
Pupils of Olumawu School in Nigeria are guided through the use of hand sanitizers. Nigeria is so far managing to halt the spread of Ebola.
Science
A scientist on the cutting edge of Ebola research calls for calm and focus
Computer malfunction
Technology
Should we even call computer problems ‘viruses’ anymore?
A fan of Ivory coast holds a sign with a message against Ebola during the 2015 African Nations Cup qualifying soccer match between Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone.
Medicine
Why Ebola patients are being turned away at the gates of treatment centers in Liberia
Nurse Monia Sayah of Doctors Without Borders explains to a hospital medical team in Guéckédou, Guinea, how the Ebola virus is transmitted.
Health
The story of one Guinean man who survived Ebola
Medicine
A Liberian describes the hard reality of Ebola: ‘You’re running even from people you love’
Medical staff take a blood sample from a suspected Ebola patient at the government hospital in Kenema, July 10, 2014.
Health & Medicine
Tensions mount between healthcare workers and Ebola-infected communities in West Africa
Dr. William Fischer
Health & Medicine
This doctor is battling on the frontlines of the ebola crisis in Guinea
Health & Medicine
Deadly MERS Virus Traced to Bats in Saudi Arabia
Health & Medicine
Cancer’s New Battleground: Infectious diseases a leading cancer cause
Health & Medicine
Book traces history of AIDS back to 1930s, examines current outbreak’s history
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Contagion’: How real life could imitate art
Health & Medicine
The swine flu explained
Health & Medicine
One flu vaccine to rule them all
Arts, Culture & Media
Remembering Ali Maow Maalin, the Last Person in the World to Contract Smallpox
Development & Education
What Going Viral Means
Arts, Culture & Media
Viruses At The Movies
Arts, Culture & Media
Our Computers, Our Viruses, Our Selves
Arts, Culture & Media
Reconstructing Viruses
A young Burkitt's lymphoma patient.
Health & Medicine
Part IV: The Infectious Connection
Health & Medicine
New Optimism Among HIV Researchers
Tracking Pandemics by Computer
Arts, Culture & Media
Renalto Dulbecco, 1975 Nobel Winner, Dies at 97
Remembering Dr. Paul Epstein
Arts, Culture & Media
Björk’s Biophilia
Environment
How online gamers helped solve a 10-year science problem
Little-Known Disease Rinderpest is Eliminated
The Bee’s Knees
The Bee’s Knees
Hunting for the Next Pandemic
Fish Kill
Emerging Science Note/Inoculating Mosquitos
Native Virus
Global Politics
Debate ensues over destruction of Smallpox
Environment
I Am the Virus
Health & Medicine
Travels with the flu virus
Health & Medicine
Yellow fever returns