by Susan Keown | Oct 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
In her new book, “Hot Spot: How Seattle Became the Place for Infectious Disease Research,” Mary Engel (@Engel140) gives us the backstory for the Emerald City’s influential role in this field of study. Seattle scientists have made a name for themselves in the study of...
by Ashley Braun | Mar 23, 2016 | Past Events
The Zika virus has been around since the 1950s, but it’s only in the last year that mosquito-borne disease has been making global headlines. Zika has been linked with microcephaly (unusually under-sized heads and damaged brains), Guillain-Barré disease, and...
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 2, 2014 | ScienceWire
In a podcast for Humanosphere, Tom Paulson talks with public health expert Laurie Garrett about Ebola. Like everything on Humanosphere (@TheHumanosphere), a nonprofit news organization run by Tom that covers global science, the interview is comprehensive and...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 3, 2014 | ScienceWire
The Ebola outbreak has kept science journalists, especially Sandi Doughton @SandiDoughton, busy. Seattle is making major contributions to fighting Ebola, Sandi reports, from Gates Foundation support for containment and treatment, to Paul Allen and World Vision funding...
