Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better.
Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.
Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?
Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans - just a nuisance. An infected mosquito is a danger.
Despite 4,000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.
The entire world has benefited and prospered since the decisive defeat of Yellow Fever, an unconventional and far-reaching military victory derived from the field medical discoveries of U.S. Army Majo...