epidemics
Inside Plum Island, America's Only Foreign Animal Disease Lab
In this episode of Symptomatic, Motherboard visits Plum Island.
How Scientists Are Fighting a Zika Outbreak in the US
In our new series, “Symptomatic” Motherboard explores how we’re combating the globe’s most threatening diseases.
Motherboard’s New Series ‘Symptomatic’ Follows Disease Hunters Around the Globe
This three-part documentary series shows how our battle with pathogens is getting more complex.
'Monkey Malaria' Is Poised To Become More Deadly—and More Transmissible
Development and deforestation are helping push a once-mellow form of malaria into virulence.
Africa Is About To Fall Off An HIV Cliff
A new study finds that Sub-Saharan Africa needs fresh funding sources for HIV treatment and prevention, like yesterday.
WHO Releases Its (Now) Annual List of the Nine Most Dire Epidemic Threats
An unpleasant bunch ranging from Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever to standbys MERS and SARS
Ethical Questions Arise After Scientists Brew Super Powerful 'SARS 2.0' Virus
Creating powerful new viruses has benefits and dangers.
Microbiologists Find Another 30,000 Year Old Giant Virus in Siberian Permafrost
Global warming threatens to unleash a whole universe of once-frozen bad stuff.
'Post-Treatment Controllers' Offer a Glint of Hope for a Functional HIV Cure
Some patients are able to stop antiviral therapy and remain healthy. No one quite knows why.
A New Flu Drug Works Astoundingly Well—By Not Targeting the Flu at All
Vasculotide buys the immune system time, which may be all it needs.
How to Name a Disease
A lack of naming guidelines for new diseases has led to some troublesome monikers.