Drug Shortages Aren’t New. The Tripledemic Just Made You Look
[ad_1] Shortages persist because of complex structural problems. Take, for instance, one that the pandemic briefly made visible: the reality that many American medications are manufactured somewhere else, at the end…
The UK Is Enduring an Onslaught of Scarlet Fever. Is the US Next?
[ad_1] It’s that backdrop of cases—rising to historic heights with no clear explanation why—that reinforces the alarm over scarlet fever now. The World Health Organization said last week that the health…
The $6 Billion Shot at Making New Antibiotics
[ad_1] Dustin Brown, a slight, dark-haired guy who lives in southwest Indiana, is 36, married, and a stay-at-home dad. He never expected to achieve any of those milestones: wife, toddler…
Where Did Omicron Come From? Maybe Its First Host Was Mice
[ad_1] It’s one of the perplexing mysteries of the Covid pandemic: Where did Omicron emerge from, almost one year ago? The fast-moving, extremely contagious variant arrived just after Thanksgiving 2021,…
The US Is Finally Considering Protections Against Salmonella
[ad_1] The autumn of 2013 was a stressful time for the Craten family, who live outside Phoenix, Arizona. In short order, three family members were diagnosed with the same type…
Wildfire Smoke May Carry Deadly Fungi Long Distances
[ad_1] Glowing red skies and bitter ash-laden air are increasingly common across much of the US as the warming climate fuels vast wildfires. For years now, researchers have understood that…
The Fungus That Killed Frogs—and Led to a Surge in Malaria
[ad_1] Though Bd swept through Central America from the 1980s to the 2000s, the analysis that demonstrated its effect on human health could be accomplished only recently, says Michael Springborn,…
Monkeypox Cases in the US Are Falling. There’s No One Reason Why
[ad_1] Add to that: There’s little past experience with the vaccine, known as Jynneos in the US, being used against this disease. It was only approved by the US Food…
Monkeypox Cases in the US Are Falling. No One Knows Why
[ad_1] Add to that: There’s little past experience with the vaccine, known as Jynneos in the US, being used against this disease. It was only approved by the US Food…
How Drought and War Are Really Affecting the Global Food Supply
[ad_1] Even if those differences average out nationally—possibly even globally, when you balance Southern Hemisphere production against the US and Western Europe, or the Americas against Central Europe and Asia—there’s…
Polio Is Back in the US and UK. Here’s How That Happened
[ad_1] The discovery that polio has partially paralyzed a young man in a New York suburb feels wearying, yet shocking. Wearying, because it’s the third highly infectious virus to make…
Three Possible Futures of the Monkeypox Epidemic
[ad_1] Still, that path is made messier by doing nothing for the countries in West and Central Africa, where monkeypox was first identified decades ago and has been spreading since…
Monkeypox Originated in Animals. Could It Spill Back Into Them?
[ad_1] Two months into the international monkeypox epidemic, which so far has caused almost 6,000 infections in the United States and more than 18,000 cases worldwide, it may be old…
Can Ring Vaccination Contain Monkeypox in the US?
[ad_1] Ring vaccination worked for smallpox because a person-to-person pattern of spread makes it possible to predict and interrupt chains of transmission. The process is straightforward: Find the people most…