Disease Archives

Researchers found that societies were, on average, more open and tolerant the closer they were to either the North or South Pole.

Social Justice

Intolerant Cultures Thrive Closer to the Equator

New research finds that ethnocentrism and political oppression are more prevalent in the southern part of the Northern Hemisphere, and vice-versa.

Tom Jacobs

View of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with a bacteria that prevents them from spreading dengue, Zika, and chikungunya.

Environment

A New, Cheap Method of Tracking Deadly Mosquitoes

An inventive toolkit created by a team at the University of Texas–Austin does not need much more than a cell phone, a 3-D-printed box, and a few chemical solutions.

David Klinges

An Ebola patient is lifted up by two medical workers after being admitted into a Biosecure Emergency Care Unit (CUBE) on August 15th, 2018, in Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Spreads to Another City

As of this week, the World Health Organization has recorded 127 confirmed cases and 87 confirmed or probable deaths in the DRC due to the virus.

Emily Moon

A group of Congolese look at a corpse of a suspected Ebola case being picked up, on the side of the road linking Beni to Mangina, on August 23rd, 2018, in Beni, in the North Kivu province.

An Ebola Crisis Intensifies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (in Photos)

A new outbreak of the deadly virus has killed dozens in one of the world's poorest countries.

Jack Herrera

People carry a cross for a grave on August 23rd, 2018, in Mangina, North Kivu province, DRC.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: An Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

People carry a cross for a grave on August 23rd, 2018, in Mangina, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

An Ebola Crisis Intensifies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as Health-Care Workers Are Infected

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is facing an alarming Ebola outbreak, with 10 health-care workers now reported to be infected by the highly contagious virus.

Jack Herrera

The commercial centre of Mbandaka in the Congo.

News in Brief

The First Urban Ebola Case Has Been Confirmed in the Congo

The disease's presence in Mbandaka, population 1.2 million, is the first non-rural case in what appears to be a new epidemic of the notoriously contagious disease.

Jack Denton

A picture taken at the French National Institute of Agricultural Research shows a tick, whose bite can transmit the Lyme disease.

Environment

Climate Change Is Causing a Dangerous Uptick in Cases of Lyme Disease

Ticks that carry the pathogenic bacteria can now survive in environments where they previously would've frozen to death, resulting in an increased risk of infection.

Gabriela Serrato Marks

A digital representation of the human genome.

News in Brief

Could Gene Reactivation Be the Answer to a Severe Neurodevelopmental Disease?

Children suffering from Rett Syndrome may have found hope in a drug combination that could potentially reverse disease symptoms by adjusting natural cellular functions.

Chelsea Weidman