infectious diseases
If You Think You Have Chronic Lyme Disease, Most Doctors Say You're Wrong
The majority of doctors and medical groups say there's no proof "chronic" Lyme disease is real, and they charge that the so-called "Lyme literate" doctors who diagnose and treat it are con-artists and quacks.
A 13-Year-Old Girl Died of Toxic Shock Syndrome After Doctors Misdiagnosed Her
Doctors told Jemma-Louise Roberts her vomiting and diarrhea were a simple stomach virus. A week later, she had died from toxic shock syndrome.
'Post-Treatment Controllers' Offer a Glint of Hope for a Functional HIV Cure
Some patients are able to stop antiviral therapy and remain healthy. No one quite knows why.
Let's All Stop Hating Anti-Vaxxers
Their scientific claims are wrong, but hating on parents trying to help their kids isn't the answer.
Hearts, Minds, and Ebola: The US Army Drops In On Liberia
VICE News spent time with members of the 101st Airborne as they went about the chaotic task of helping to end Liberia's current fight against Ebola.
We Asked an Expert What Would Happen if No One Got Vaccinated
To start with, a lot more people would die from things like measles, mumps, and meningitis.
Infectious Disease Evacuations Could Incite a Race War in California Prisons
Rampant Valley Fever has killed dozens of inmates since 2006.
To Halt Infectious Diseases, Quarantine the Popular Kids
UK researchers measure social contact to track infectious diseases.
A New System Could Predict Deadly Dengue Outbreaks Four Months in Advance
There's no vaccine for dengue fever, which kills 25,000 people a year. But a Swiss researcher believes she's uncovered a way to predict when outbreaks will occur.
This Waltz-y Data Visualization Will Help Kill the Spread of the Flu
The modeled ebb and flow, uncannily synced to Blue Danube's waltz and simulated to predict flu virus transmission rates, is remarkably swarm-like in its sheer randomness.
Swaziland's Deadly TB Nightmare
What if I told you that a third of the world’s population is latently infected with a deadly disease? And that the disease has mutated into a more deadly form that can’t be treated with normal drugs? And that, in some places, the disease is completely...