Epidemiology

Photo: Cuson (Shutterstock)Smallpox is the only disease we’ve ever managed to fully eradicate in humans; it hasn’t existed anywhere in the world since 1980. But its close relative, monkeypox, is still around. Monkeypox isn’t anywhere…

An image of the HIV virus taken with transmission electron microscopy.Image: BSIP/Universal Images Group (Getty Images)Researchers in a new paper this week say that a highly virulent variant of HIV has been silently circulating in the…

A Spanish man has been arrested for allegedly infecting over 20 people with COVID-19, according CNN. The 40-year-old man, who lives on the Spanish island of Mallorca, went to work and did not self-isolate though he was exhibiting…