Sars virus

I’m Susan Allan, I am the Director of the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, which is at the School of Public Health in the University of Washington. I am also an Associate Professor in the...

One of the worst natural disasters in recorded history was caused by a virus The influenza pandemic of 1918 struck every major U. S city dropping people where they stood There were at least twenty...

Any parent knows that colds spread like wildfire, especially through schools. New research may give a clearer picture of just how, exactly, infectious diseases such as the common cold, influenza,...

Dr. Michael J. Selgelid: So, again, I'm Michael Selgelid. I'm the deputy director of the Center for Human Bioethics at Monash University in Melbourne. And I'm co-moderating...

PENA: I woke up. I saw blood all over the blankets. And my hands and my feet were bitten by something. I didn't know what it was. Then we realized that there had been bats. DOWELL: We can help...

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A concerning environmental discovery out of the Middle East: Scientists have realized four countries lining the Tigris and Euphrates river...

In the last several weeks, we have been discussing B cells, the receptors present on B cells, and the kind of structures present on the cells we know as immunoglobulins, which serve as antigen...

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 The bird flu epidemic that killed nearly 50 people in China is proving to be even more deadly than once thought. In a study published by The Lancet, researchers...