Influenza spreads in a crowded barracks or prison. Ebola proliferates when per capita hospital beds plummet below typical levels in developed countries. Bedside discrimination leads some patients to die and others to survive.
Aug 19, 2026
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U.S. states with stronger LGBTQ+ equality laws saw significantly higher mpox vaccination rates during the 2022–2023 epidemic compared to states with weaker protections, according to a study by CUNY SPH researchers published ...
Sep 18, 2025
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Bird flu was detected on an organic chicken farm in the center of the Netherlands for the first time this year, the government said on Monday.
Nov 18, 2024
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In March 2020, the UK government's chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, presented to the nation a graph showing "the shape of an epidemic". The red line depicting the number of predicted COVID cases rose to a steep ...
Nov 28, 2023
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In 2021, conversations began on whether the COVID-19 pandemic will, or even can, end. As a literary and cultural theorist, I started looking for shifts in stories about pandemics and contagion. It turns out that several stories ...
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