Cruise Ship Is Held Off California Coast for Virus Testing

OLGA RODRIGUEZ / The Associated Press Mar 5, 2020 The action comes amid a statewide emergency to stave off the spread of the disease after a passenger on earlier Grand Princess voyage died. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Passengers Leave Ship Docked Off Japan After Quarantine Ends

MARI YAMAGUCHI and FOSTER KLUG / The Associated Press Feb 19, 2020 The two-week action failed to stop the spread of the new virus, with the Diamond Princess the site of the most infections outside of China. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Is Coronavirus the First Climate Plague?

Kim Brown / The Real News Network Feb 17, 2020 Journalists Bryn Nelson and Jane C. Hu explain why rising temperatures will fuel an increase in both deadly outbreaks and xenophobia. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Coronavirus Panic Exposes the Pathology of Nationalism

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Feb 6, 2020 Solidarity, not alienation born of ignorance, is the solution to the health crisis and the racist response to it. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Cases of New Viral Respiratory Illness Rise Sharply in China

KEN MORITSUGU / The Associated Press Jan 22, 2020 World health agency weighs global emergency declaration as coronavirus infects more than 400 people, killing at least 17 in Wuhan outbreak. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Infectious Mosquito Population May Double by 2100

Tim Radford / Climate News Network Apr 7, 2019 As the world warms, the horizons widen for the risks to health from mosquitoes, putting another billion people in jeopardy. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

CDC Sounds the Alarm on How Medicine and Agriculture Are Killing Us

BLANK Sep 19, 2013 Drug-resistant bacteria are causing the deaths of at least 23,000 Americans a year, a problem exacerbated by injudicious use of antibiotics in treatment of patients -- and their pervasive use in agriculture. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Porn Industry Drags Its Feet on HIV Probe

Staff / Truthdig Apr 17, 2011 According to a report by the Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. porn industry attempted to block an investigation into the HIV infection of one of its actors, illustrating the dangers in an increasingly unregulated industry. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Massive Malaria Vaccine Trial Begins

Staff / Truthdig Nov 7, 2009 A new vaccine trial is underway in Africa in an attempt to control malaria, a disease that not only kills 1 million people every year, but also makes 300 million seriously sick. If the trial results come back positive, a worldwide vaccine could be available as soon as 2012. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

HIV Vaccine May Cut Infection Rate

Staff / Truthdig Sep 24, 2009 After almost 30 years since HIV surfaced in the United States, researchers in Thailand and the U.S. have created an experimental vaccine that has, over a seven-year study, been found to reduce the risk of contracting HIV by one-third. The vaccine is a combination of two existing vaccinations that were not successful in reducing infection. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.N. Downsizes AIDS Estimate

Staff / Truthdig Nov 20, 2007 Finally, some good news in the world (relatively speaking): AIDS scientists at the United Nations are ready to announce that they have been overestimating the scale of the viral epidemic for quite some time now, and that the spread of AIDS has actually been decelerating over the last decade. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bad News About Global AIDS Rate

Staff / Truthdig Jul 23, 2007 Even though the sense of urgency about HIV/AIDS appears to have dropped off in mainstream media and culture in recent years, the latest news about infection rates is far from favorable President Bush's adviser on HIV/AIDS, Dr Anthony Fauci, for one, reports that we're "losing the numbers game" with respect to new infections around the globe . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )