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Johnny Sheng
Nov 167 min read
H5N1 Is (Still) Out of Control
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGERY Cows dying from H5N1 left to rot in the open in California, where the deadly virus has spread to hundreds of...
Lawrence Wu
Oct 83 min read
The World is Getting Older
Population aging is starting to become more commonplace in the world. The UN states that as of 2021, 1 in 10 people are aged 65 or above,...
Nirav Akkanapragada
Oct 33 min read
Rwanda Faces First Outbreak of Deadly Marburg Virus
On September 27, 2024, Rwanda reported its first case of Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever, a lethal Ebola-like virus, setting off alarms in the...
Johnny Sheng
Aug 243 min read
What is EEE? 4 US Towns Under Curfew Over Virus Concerns
EEE is a life-threatening viral disease carried by mosquitoes. Source When Americans experience viral outbreaks, they often do so through...
Johnny Sheng
Aug 224 min read
Optimism and Vigilance as H5N1 Persists in American Cows
Since it first appeared in dairy cows in the American South in early 2024, H5N1 bird flu has hopscotched across the nation. While the...
Johnny Sheng
Aug 75 min read
World Health Organization Considers Mpox Emergency Declaration
Update: Mpox is now a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Less than two years after the World Health Organization (WHO)...
Johnny Sheng
Aug 13 min read
Why COVID Keeps Surging
We are in the midst of another COVID wave. At the Paris Olympics, masks have made a return as athletes fall ill. In the United States,...
Anne Ma
Jul 304 min read
Declining Mental Health in Younger Generations
“Mental health epidemic” and “national crisis” are terms we’ve all heard one way or another. From seeing it in our own communities to...
Lawrence Wu
Jul 223 min read
Cholera Vaccine In Short Supply as Deaths Rise
Recent months have seen a global rebound of cholera, a dreaded bacterial disease that can kill within hours. The World Health...
Andrew Jiang
Jul 203 min read
US Spread Vaccine Disinformation During Pandemic
There is no doubt that tensions have been rising between the world’s great powers in recent years, an issue only accelerated by the...
Johnny Sheng
Jul 196 min read
Gun Violence Is Now a Public Health Crisis
Earlier last month, United States Surgeon-General Vivek Murthy declared gun violence a public health crisis. To bring gun deaths under...
Johnny Sheng
Jul 82 min read
Outbreak Summer
A closer look at five diseases making headlines this summer To view this article as an instagram post, click here H5N1: is cow flu the...
Johnny Sheng
Jun 273 min read
From Mecca to Karachi, Heat Waves Take a Deadly Toll
The Pakistani port city of Karachi has been battered by extreme temperatures this week. Source Since temperatures in Karachi, Pakistan...
Johnny Sheng
Jun 249 min read
Retrospective: the AIDS Pandemic
The story of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has been convoluted from the start. The first report hinting at its existence,...
Johnny Sheng
Jun 204 min read
Oropouche Fever: 9 Years After Zika, a New Threat Rises
Nine years ago, Brazilian health authorities reported the country’s first cases of a rare but mild viral infection called Zika. At first,...
Lawrence Wu
Jun 154 min read
Climate Change and Disease: A Bleak Future
As climate change worsens and global temperatures rise, there has been a notable rise in diseases both new and old. In a recent Nature...
Andrew Jiang
Jun 144 min read
As Long COVID Lingers, a Moonshot Is Launched
Since its emergence in 2019, COVID-19 has caused one of the most destructive pandemics in history. Excess deaths alone are estimated to...
Johnny Sheng
Jun 25 min read
Pandemic Treaty Fails?
In 2021, when excess deaths from COVID-19 reached an all-time high, countries everywhere called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to...
Johnny Sheng
May 314 min read
Bird Flu Accelerates Across America
For a more recent update on this topic, see here . What began as a drop in milk production in Texan dairy herds has become an epidemic...
Anne Ma
May 293 min read
The Current State of Childhood Vaccinations
The power of vaccination is well known, especially in protecting our infant and youth populations from a host of infectious diseases....
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