Professor Malcolm Casadaban died in 2009 of a Yersinia pestis strain excluded from the select agent list. The CDC reported ...
WHO says it sought verification of a second employee with pneumonia of undetermined cause. Several Russian outlets had already taken their plague reporting down.
We still don’t know what caused the pneumonia that killed Daria Shipilova, the young lab assistant who died in Siberia earlier this month. She worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute, which ...
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In 2025, Dr. Debra Houry started saving her own emails while she was still the CDC’s chief medical officer. By the time she resigned last August, she had 250 pages. She told Margaret Brennan on Face ...
The U.S. is running an old experiment again. Public health isolationism is the belief that you can protect a country from infectious disease mainly by controlling its borders instead of detecting ...
CDC issued a travel ban. The order explains why it won’t work. On May 18th, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Title 42 order suspending the entry of non-citizens who have been in ...
The outbreak was hours old. The disinformation was already circulating. On the morning of May 17, 2026 — as the World Health Organization was declaring a Public Health Emergency of International ...
Since his second term started, President Donald Trump has announced, negotiated, or floated a flurry of initiatives aimed at taming the excesses of the pharmaceutical industry. No surprise. About 60% ...
We are about to spend millions studying ibogaine. At the same time, Americans are flying overseas to take it in clinics with no consistent cardiac screening, no monitoring standards, and no obligation ...
A new obesity treatment comes as a standard pill. No injections, no refrigeration, no fasting requirements. It fits more easily into daily routines. GLP-1 drugs work They reduce appetite, lower blood ...