By: Makayla Ross Image credit: NIH Image Gallery. CC-BY-NC. On April 23, 2022, health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared an outbreak
By: Makayla Ross Image credit: Moderna. CC-BY-NC. Two years ago, most people had never heard of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines nor the entire field of
By: Makayla Ross Image credit: Vaccines at Sanofi. CC-BY-NC-ND. On March 4, 2022, Kenyan health authorities declared an outbreak of Yellow Fever in Isiolo County
By: Caroline Pane Image Credit: United Nations Photo. CC-BY-NC-ND. A 3-year-old in Malawi has the first case of wild-type poliovirus in Africa in 5 years,
By Makayla Ross Image credit: Photo by Tom Murray. CC-BY-NC. Researchers at Penn State recently found evidence that the SARS-coV-2 B.1.1.529 Omicron variant spread from
In December 2020, the B.1.617.2 variant, also known as the COVID-19 Delta variant, was first documented in India (1). Originally referred to as the “India
H10N3 in China On Tuesday, June 1, 2021, Beijing’s National Health Commission announced a confirmed case of the H10N3 avian influenza in a 41-year-old man.
Image courtesy of Alachua County via Public Domain One year after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a pandemic [1],
By Sarah Wade Image courtesy of CDC Global Health, licensed under CC BY 2.0 On top of the COVID-19 pandemic, West Africa is experiencing another,
In December 2020, the Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator department at Boston Children’s Hospital launched a new health study in collaboration with Google. The Respiratory