Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans - just a nuisance. An infected mosquito is a danger.
Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.
Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better.
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...
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?