epidemiology

Second, the longer this virus continues, the extra variants we’re going to have. We don’t know precisely what varieties a variant, however for positive one issue is immunocompromised individuals who have the virus puttering round longer…

Ring vaccination labored for smallpox as a result of a person-to-person sample of unfold makes it doable to foretell and interrupt chains of transmission. The method is simple: Discover the folks most liable to an infection, give them…

When monkeypox briefly found its way into the US in 2003, it infected prairie dogs. “We know that ground squirrels are highly susceptible to the virus and that there is a wide host range of species,” says Rimoin. “If monkeypox were able…

While the current monkeypox outbreak will be the first time many have heard of the disease, the virus is thought to have been infecting people for centuries, possibly even millennia. A member of the same virus family as chickenpox and…

When Moritz Kraemer first heard about the new monkeypox outbreak spreading through the UK, Europe, and the US, it was not through conventional scientific channels, or from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), but via Twitter. As each…

Lines on charts can tell you something about the state of the Covid pandemic in the United States. Deaths: declining, even with the looming milestone of the millionth US death. Hospitalizations: at historically low levels, but ticking…