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Infectious disease has affected the human species for as long as we’ve existed, but in that time we’ve come a long way in understanding...

You may not realize it, but your body is like a fortress, designed to defend you from tiny foreign invaders known as pathogens. This seemingly small...

We take it for granted that society gets better at tackling infectious disease over time, but when you really think about it the progress we’ve...

We’re all susceptible to infectious disease of some kind or other, but not everyone is equally likely to be the victim of an outbreak. The fact...

A sad reality that we have to face when studying outbreak science is that sometimes groups of people use outbreaks intentionally to inflict harm on...

Sometimes, diagnosing patients is pretty easy, but other times... not so much. Luckily, in a medical setting we have tools that can help us figure...

Day to day, hospitals provide all kinds of services to help us get better and stay healthy, but during an outbreak, hospitals are the front line of...

At the heart of outbreaks are people! People are the ones who get sick, transmit diseases, and change the way they live in response to outbreaks. In...

When outbreaks happen, we need to be able to predict the course they’ll take in the future, but of course we can’t run experiments on...

Public health activities are all the ways society coordinates to deliver better health to people. That may sound super broad, and it is, so in this...

In 1959, the WHO set out to eradicate smallpox, an ambitious goal that was achieved by 1980. But this goal wouldn't have been possible without...

When you think about the technology that helps us prevent outbreaks, what do you think of? Vaccines? Lab tests? Medications? What about toilets?...

When we think of how we respond to outbreaks, we often think of physical things like vaccines or medicines, but there is another factor that is just...

Throughout this series, and in our real lives, we've seen the chaos and devastation that outbreaks can cause. But there's good news! Eventually,...

Over the course of this series, we've seen that outbreak science is actually MANY sciences, including biology, epidemiology, sociology, and even...

It's "Mr. Wizard" for a different decade. Bill Nye is the Science Guy, a host who's hooked on experimenting and explaining. Picking one topic per...

Every day we are inundated with information. Can facts still be distinguished from fables? With a nod to today's 'do your own research' internet...

MythBusters is a science entertainment television program created and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery...

Carl Sagan covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.