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The U.S. Is Winging This Ebola Outbreak

Katherine J. Wu

May 28, 2026

A health-care worker cares for a patient.

What Happened on the Hantavirus Cruise, According to a Doctor On Board

Katherine J. Wu

May 7, 2026

Water with a stethoscope in front of it

A Brutal First for the Cruise Industry

Katherine J. Wu

May 5, 2026

the cruise ship

Polio Was That Bad

January 28, 2026

Collage of a vial of inactivated polio vaccine, boxes of inactivated polio vaccine, and a pair of gloved hands sticking a syringe into a vial

How to Define Old Age

Natalie Brennan and Yasmin Tayag

May 5, 2025

A black and white photo shows a white couple siting in folding chairs on the beach, facing one another and sharing the shade of a single umbrella.

COVID-19: Five Years Later

America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease

March 11, 2025

a cloud with red dots on it

The Diseases Are Coming

March 10, 2025

Germs spreading over a world map

It’s Already Different

David A. Graham

January 21, 2025

Photograph of Donald Trump behind a desk with the presidential seal and executive orders atop the desk

Social Distance

Listen: It’s a Small World Health Organization

May 27, 2020

The Atlantic Daily: Trump Rebrands as a Pandemic Prophet

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

April 16, 2020

The WHO Shouldn’t Be a Plaything for Great Powers

April 16, 2020

The WHO Defunding Move Isn’t What It Seems

April 15, 2020

Coronavirus: COVID-19

How China Deceived the WHO

April 12, 2020

Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

The WHO Finally Sounds Its Loudest Alarm Over Ebola in the Congo

July 18, 2019

A mother of a child, suspected of dying from Ebola, cries near her child's coffin in Beni