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Members of the Florida National Guard (FLNG) gather with local hospital staff to collaborate on donning and doffing personal protective equipment (PPE) during Task Force – Medicals’ response to the COVID-19 virus, March 17, 2020. The FLNG is mobilizing up to 500 Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen in support of the Florida Department of Health response in Broward County. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Leia Tascarini)

A new report from the Lancet finds a decrease in rates of death in COVID-19 cases but warns that even ...

COVID-19 is now a pandemic. What’s a pandemic?

by Tibi Puiu

March 11, 2020

It's the article we were hoping not to write.

A December 2019 study described the best way to fight a pandemic: wash your hands

by Mihai Andrei

March 4, 2020

You've probably heart it before, but here we go again: wash your hands, often and thoroughly.

New study shows how Zika might re-emerge and strike the United States

by Mihai Andrei

May 25, 2017

The US is certainly not safe from Zika.

Brazil says Zika epidemic is officially over

by Mihai Andrei

May 12, 2017

Although authorities are still on alert, the Zika epidemic seems to have backed off.

In 2014, the Ebola virus mutated to infect people more efficiently

by Mihai Andrei

November 3, 2016

Viruses are mutating and adapting to the human body.

Zika articles made open-source to accelerate research

by Mihai Andrei

February 11, 2016

Nature, the Lancet and many other medical publishers and researchers have announced that all Zika-related scientific articles will be published freely ...

Vaccine skeptical parents tend to cluster and threaten communities

by Tibi Puiu

November 23, 2016

More than 21 million hospitalizations and 732,000 deaths among children born in the last 20 years have been spared by ...

A Doctors Without Borders health worker in protective clothing holds a child suspected of having Ebola in Paynesville, Liberia. Image: Getty

More than 23,000 Ebola Cases in 2014, According to Estimates

by livia rusu

October 22, 2014

A Doctors Without Borders health worker in protective clothing holds a child suspected of having Ebola ...

Ebola outbreak moving faster than we can control: WHO declares international emergency

by Tibi Puiu

August 11, 2014

Photo: wn.com As reported earlier, 2014 has seen the worst Ebola outbursts in history. Recent escalations ...

Predicting pandemic outbreaks by looking at air traffic

by Tibi Puiu

January 6, 2014

Airport map. (c) Dirk Brockmann The world is getting smaller by the day, as fixed geographical ...

H5N1 controversial paper shows that bird flu is only a genetic mutation away from mammal flu

by Tibi Puiu

May 3, 2012

At the end of last year, controversy sparked among the medical scientific community when an unprecedented event occurred. Two separate and independent ...

The Bubonic Plague came from China

by Tibi Puiu

November 2, 2010

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