infectious disease

  • A Brief History of Medical Face Masks

    A Brief History of Medical Face Masks

    If you happened to find yourself in 17th-century Naples, you were in for a rough time. The Plague of 1656 was in full swing and would claim an estimated 300,000 lives in Naples alone. If you were one of the unlucky souls to come down with the buboes and high fever symptomatic of the disease,…


  • How Drones Are Being Used To Track Malaria

    How Drones Are Being Used To Track Malaria

    America’s got pretty good at using drones to hunt and kill big tangible things, but Hellfire missiles and Reapers aren’t all that good at tracking little insects. But that hasn’t stopped researchers from using (smaller, less deadly) drones to help fight the spread of infectious disease.