To say that alcohol is a part of human culture is a bit of an understatement. The relationship our species has with […]

It’s the summer of 1999 in New York City, and everyone’s looking towards the future, towards millennium parties and potential Y2K catastrophes. […]

Almost everyone is familiar with diabetes mellitus in some way. Whether we know family or friends that have been diagnosed with the […]

Twenty years ago this month, letters containing Bacillus anthracis spores were mailed to various politicians and news media offices in the US, […]

A nighttime “kiss” from a bug that casts a curse on its recipient in the form of a lifelong, and possibly fatal, […]

While many of us know how deadly dysentery can be from playing countless hours of The Oregon Trail, there’s only so much […]

Bumps and bruises. Cuts and scrapes. Gashes and gouges. Injuries small and large are familiar to all of us, but what happens […]

“Let’s do Bartonella next,” we said. “It’ll be straightforward and fun,” we promised ourselves. Turns out we were half right. In this […]

Celebration wasn’t the only thing in the air in Philadelphia in July of 1976. Over the course of several days during the […]

Ah, chickenpox, that pesky old childhood illness. And that’s all it is, right? Just a mild, routine infection that we all used […]