In recent months, the U.S. government has taken steps to defund and dismantle key infectious disease programs, including a National Institutes of Health lab that has contributed to groundbreaking work ...

Strange as it may seem, early germ theorists could tell us a lot about today’s attitudes toward climate change. While researching for a new book about the history of emerging infections, I found many ...

I am stunned by the irony of two articles that appeared alongside each other in the Metro section of Saturday’s Globe. The first, “Health experts say germ theory denial explains RFK Jr.’s views,” ...

Germ denial is a worldview that questions the foundations of modern medicine and public health. Whether we are in clinic rooms, community forums, family gatherings, or online discussions, engaging ...

Roughly 99.5% of people born before 1980 are infected with herpes zoster, yet only 33% will develop its clinical manifestation: shingles. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimates that ...

Some of the greatest scientific discoveries haven’t resulted in Nobel Prizes. Louis Pasteur, who lived from 1822 to 1895, is arguably the world’s best-known microbiologist. He is widely credited for ...

September 25 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the most important scientist you’ve never heard of. His name was Agostino Bassi, and he was the first person to identify the specific ...

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