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
Social Justice The Ethical Risks of Detecting Disease Outbreaks With Big Data The stakes of the analysis are much higher when lives are on the line. Michael White
Social Justice The Devastation of 1918: Finding Pockets of Hope in the Great Flu Pandemic The influenza pandemic of 1918 has taught us many lessons and, according to new research, some of them are decidedly low-tech. Anna Maria Gillis
Social Justice Predicting Epidemics With Internet Search Data Recent research suggests that evaluating desperate Google queries may be the best way to identify infectious disease outbreaks before they happen. Ryan Jacobs
Social Justice Should We Be Worried About the Bird Flu Outbreak? There is a good chance that the world isn't going to end. Ryan O'Hanlon