In her new book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood ...

The foreign aid program has been one of the country's best defenses against emerging infectious diseases. Without it, we are ...

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The man’s case didn’t give rise to any widespread variant, but it gave Gupta, with his HIV evolution background, the idea ...

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As the Economic Community of West African States marks its 50th anniversary, GIFT HABIB reflects on its journey from an ...

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Tobacco kills 8 million people worldwide every year, but imagine if it could be used to make medicine. The idea isn't unheard of - tobacco has been ...