A UNRWA employee provides polio vaccine and rotavirus vaccines for children in a clinic in Bureij refugee camp in the...
Infectious Diseases
Chinese Hospitals Are Housing Another Deadly Outbreak
Children are hooked up to IV drips on the stairs at a children's hospital in Beijing on Nov. 23. Authorities are...
Ebola in Africa: What We’re Getting Wrong
Baz Ratner/Reuters A health worker in an Ebola treatment center, Beni, North Kivu, Congo, May 2019 Article initially...
The Ongoing Ebola Epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2018–2019
Article initially published in The New England Journal of Medicine on July 25, 2019 and written by Oly Ilunga Kalenga,...
Populations under siege and in prison require investment from Syria’s national tuberculosis programme
Initially published in The Lancet on May 10, 2018 (as part of Volume 6, Issue 7, E34, published on July 1, 2018) and...
Cholera in the time of war: implications of weak surveillance in Syria for the WHO’s preparedness—a comparison of two monitoring systems
Articles initially published in BMJ Journals on July 22, 2016 and written by Annie Sparrow, Khaled...
The Awful Diseases on the Way
Article initially published in The New York Review on June 9, 2016 and written by Annie Sparrow. Reviewed: Pandemic:...
The Truth About the Measles
(Reuters/Brian Snyder) Article initially published in The Nation on March 4, 2015 and written by Annie Sparrow No...
Before Ebola, Health Officials Thought the Age of Epidemics Was Over—It Wasn’t
Article initially published by The Nation on October 10, 2014 Read the full article on thenation.com