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Devin Teichrow
Disease travels with people and the things people build: ships, barracks, markets, wells, mosquitoes, rats, crowded rooms, and decisions made too late.
I'm Devin Teichrow, a UCLA-trained epidemiologist and neuroscience researcher at UC Irvine working on migraine and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias. My public science work focuses on how disease moves through populations, history, war, ecology, and infrastructure, including everything from modern outbreak reporting to historical epidemic reconstruction and interactive disease mapping.
The Edge of Epidemiology is my home for longform essays, live outbreak coverage, disease atlases, methodological explainers, and projects exploring the intersection of epidemiology, geography, and history.
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Opportunities
Selected projects, collaborations, and commissions
I am open to serious projects where epidemiology, data, public health, history, and technical implementation need to become one usable thing.
Live desk
The Pathogen Dispatch
Current outbreak files, follow-up reporting, and source-first tracking for major infectious-disease stories.
PubMed Infectious Disease Search
Active Investigation
Avian influenza and H5N1
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Independent Observer
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Measles transmission and vaccination
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Reuters
Active Investigation
Hantavirus and cruise-ship outbreak
The lead item has changed to Britain gets experimental drug from Japan to bolster hantavirus response from Reuters.
Interactive exhibits
Public disease exhibits for learning by looking
Timelines, atlases, and source-first visual work for pathogen history, outbreak geography, and epidemiologic reasoning.
Timeline
Interactive exhibit
American Epidemic Timeline
A carefully cited timeline of major U.S.-linked epidemics, outbreaks, and public-health turning points.
Atlas
Interactive exhibit
Pathogen Atlas
A cited digital exhibit about pathogen origins, reservoirs, transmission ecology, historical spread, and evidentiary uncertainty.
Atlas
Interactive exhibit
Maritime Disease Atlas
A cited map-first digital exhibit on ships, ports, quarantine, naval warfare, captivity, trade, migration, and maritime disease ecology.
Atlas
Interactive exhibit
Revolutionary War Disease Atlas
A historical epidemiology section focused on colonial and Revolutionary-era disease ecology, troop movement, and the public-health constraints around the founding period.
Published writing
Recent essays
Longer-form writing on outbreaks, evidence, history, ecology, and the politics of public health.
May 19, 2026
Essay
Ebola in DRC and Uganda: Outbreak Update
Live outbreak notes on Ebola virus disease in DRC and Uganda, with what is confirmed, what remains uncertain, and why regional spread matters.
May 13, 2026
Essay
Korean War Hantavirus: Hemorrhagic Fever History
How Korean War trench warfare, rodent ecology, and Hantaan virus turned a mysterious military outbreak into hantavirus history.
May 4, 2026
Essay
MV Hondius Hantavirus Outbreak: What We Know
A source-first guide to the MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak, Andes virus, cruise-ship exposure, travel risk, and what investigators could know.
May 2, 2026
Essay
New Fungal STI: Epidemiology and Transmission Risk
A source-aware look at a newly reported sexually transmitted fungal infection, including MSM networks, case evidence, transmission questions, and reporting limits.
April 25, 2026
Essay
Ancient DNA and Disease Selection in West Eurasia
How ancient DNA, infectious disease pressure, immunity, and changing environments help explain genomic selection in West Eurasian populations.
April 11, 2026
Essay
Big Epidemiology: Disease at Civilization Scale
A framework essay for thinking about disease across deep time, infrastructure, migration, ecology, empire, and the systems civilizations build.
Field guides
Reference layer
Practical disease briefings on transmission, diagnostics, severity, and what matters when a pathogen reappears.
Reference
Reference
Ebola virus disease
Ebola remains a defining outbreak-desk disease because healthcare transmission, funeral practices, laboratory capacity, community trust, and international alarm can all move faster than the confirmed count.
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Hantavirus syndrome
This is a rare but frightening severe-disease story where a single unusual cluster can force questions about travel safety, rodent exposure, and whether Andes-virus-style person-to-person spread is in play.
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Measles
Measles is a clean reporter desk disease because it reveals vaccination gaps, school and household spread, travel-linked importation, and public-health capacity all at once.