Articles by

David Cox

Bird Flu Is Spreading in Alarming New Ways

Last Friday, a health alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pinged its way across...

The World’s First Malaria Vaccine Program for Children Starts Now

Malaria expert Brian Greenwood had once resigned himself to the possibility that a successful vaccine for the...

Scabies Is Making a Comeback

In recent months, Naveed Ijaz, a general practitioner specializing in dermatology, has seen a growing number of...

What China’s Covid Crisis Means for the Rest of the World

The fear is that the sudden spread of Covid through a new population with relatively little prior...

Everything You Need to Know About Paxlovid

Hopes that it could be useful for treating people with mild illness have also proved unfounded. In...

Monkeypox Can Be Contained—but Time Is Running Out

When monkeypox briefly found its way into the US in 2003, it infected prairie dogs. “We know...

Everything You Need to Know About Monkeypox

While the current monkeypox outbreak will be the first time many have heard of the disease, the...

The Mystery of Monkeypox’s Global Spread

When Moritz Kraemer first heard about the new monkeypox outbreak spreading through the UK, Europe, and the...