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Vaccination Offers Higher Protection Than Previous COVID-19 Infection
In this multistate analysis of hospitalizations for COVID-19–like illness among adults aged 18 years or older during January–September 2021 whose...
COVID-19 Pandemic Threatens to Undo Years of Progress in Tuberculosis Control
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) recently released Global Tuberculosis Report for 2021 paints a dismal picture of the impact that...
America’s Food Safety System Failed to Stop a Salmonella Epidemic. It’s Still Making People Sick.
In May 2018, a rare and virulent strain of Salmonella caught the attention of America’s top disease detectives. In less...
JILA’s Comb Breathalyzer is Now a Thousandfold More Sensitive to Disease Biomarkers
Scientists have dramatically boosted the sensitivity of a laser frequency comb breathalyzer to detect multiple biomarkers of disease. When validated...
Rwanda and Senegal Will Host Africa’s First COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing Plants
The lack of vaccine production capacity in African countries has been the subject of much concern and hand-wringing in the...
SARS-CoV-2 Levels in Wastewater Correlate with Regional Patient Data
Wastewater-based epidemiology, which represents the collective waste of the human population in a given locale, can detect viral pathogens and...
