Microbiologist Maurice Hilleman saw it coming, so the country made 40 million doses of the vaccine within months.

Well-researched stories from Marker, FiveThirtyEight, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Readings on the history of quarantine, contagious disease, viruses, infections, and epidemics offer important context for the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Johns Hopkins epidemiologist and infectious disease expert Jennifer Nuzzo on why vaccines aren’t the answer, how COVID-19 is unique, and how to stay safe.

How to get people to stay healthy during a quarantine? Some countries have taken to a new communications strategy, and it's super cute.

Because we share many of the same cell types with our pets, they develop some of the same cancers. Comparative oncologists study these parallels.

Have people gone mad? How can one individual be overfilling their own cart, while shaming others who are doing the same?

Retail workers at a plus-size clothing store had to promote the contradictory messages that every body is beautiful and that being fat is bad.

Shelley's third novel, about the sole survivor of a global plague, draws on the now-outdated miasma theory of disease.

"The poor, having no choice, remained.”