Infectious Diseases

A Risk Management Approach to Global Pandemics of Infectious Disease and Anti-Microbial Resistance

Article initially published by Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease on November 18, 2024 and written by: Annie Sparrow; Meghan Smith-Torino; Samuel M. Shamamba; Bisimwa Chirakarhula; Maranatha A. Lwaboshi; Christine Stabell Benn; Konstantin Chumakov Abstract...

Gaza’s Polio Outbreak Won’t Spare Israelis

A UNRWA employee provides polio vaccine and rotavirus vaccines for children in a clinic in Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Sept. 9, 2020. Mohammed Abed / AFP via Getty Images The country’s unvaccinated ultra-Orthodox population is at risk of contracting the...

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 covering up the spread of antibiotic-resistant pneumonia. Article initially published by Foreign Policy on November 28, 2023 and written by Annie Sparrow...

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 published in The New York Review on October 24, 2019 and written by Annie Sparrow. Since the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo began...