In the Next Pandemic, Let’s Pay People to Get Vaccinated
[ad_1] It’s a truth universally acknowledged that people like money. If you show them the cash, they’re generally more likely to do what you want, whether that be to stop smoking, work…
The Bittersweet Defeat of Mpox
[ad_1] For a few weeks this summer, the world worried that monkeypox might become the next global pandemic. At the peak in early August the US was recording 600 cases…
Anthony Fauci’s Sign-Off Message | WIRED
[ad_1] Beginning in 2023, we won’t have Dr. Anthony Fauci to kick around any more. After 38 years in government service, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy…
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,…
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…