Disease

A grocery store aisle of cleaning and disinfecting products

Living in a disinfected world could pose unintended consequences

Disease

The world has gotten really clean during the pandemic and our hypersanitized lives may pose health risks.

Volunteers sit in plastic chairs as a medical professional gives a talk

South Africa begins coronavirus vaccine trial

COVID-19
Since the inception of commercial air travel, the insides of airplane cabins have been associated with a higher likelihood of catching a cold or other spreadable disease. New research has sought out to see if scientific facts back up those sentiments.

Study examines how diseases really spread during air travel

Health

Playing Against the Virus

Arts, Culture & Media
A particular type of UV light, shown here with a scintillator composed of plastics, could revolutionize the practices of flu prevention.

A cure for the flu? It could be as simple as sitting under a lamp.

Health
Crosses are seen placed at a memorial in memory of the victims killed in the shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in Sutherland Springs, Texas, U.S., November 8, 2017.

This public health expert says he has a solution to mass shootings

Health

Is there a way to prevent mass shootings like the one in Sutherland Springs, Texas? Let’s start by treating violence like a disease, says Dr. Gary Slutkin.

Woman leans over hospital bed to give her daughter rehydration fluid at a cholera treatment center in Sanaa.

Unpaid doctors and nurses fight largest cholera epidemic on record

Conflict

Get a rare look inside Yemen’s cholera crisis as a FRONTLINE crew films inside a hospital in the rebel-held capital, Sanaa.

The World

Studying splashes to learn more about how disease spreads

Health

In the new Science Friday video “Breakthrough: Connecting the Drops,” Lydia Bourouiba and her team study how droplets travel when we sneeze, or flush the toilet.

A syringe.

Mining nature for the next groundbreaking antibiotic

Health

The WHO has warned that we’re headed for a “post-antibiotic era.” But the next penicillin could be in your backyard.

A worker fogs the corridor

Singapore is dealing with an outbreak of locally transmitted Zika infections

Health

At least 56 people in Singapore have contracted Zika in what is a major case of local transmission far from the Americas, where the disease has become established.