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.
Topic hub
Disease Ecology
Disease stories where landscapes, reservoirs, vectors, cities, climate, and infrastructure explain more than the pathogen alone.
Essays
16 linked piece(s)
This hub groups related writing so readers can move from one argument to the surrounding disease history, ecology, and evidence.
March 27, 2026
Essay
Tuberculosis and the Fragility of Public Health
A Pathogen Dispatch essay on tuberculosis, public-health capacity, drug resistance, airborne transmission, and why old diseases keep returning.
September 3, 2025
Essay
Heat Exposure and Unequal Aging Risk
Why heat exposure may not age everyone equally, including climate risk, social vulnerability, occupational exposure, and epidemiologic measurement.
August 21, 2025
Essay
Climate, Urbanization, and Infectious Disease Risk
How warmer weather, urbanization, vector range, travel, and ecological change are shifting infectious disease risks in 2025.
May 18, 2025
Essay
Skin Latitude Mismatch and Colonial Sun Exposure
How skin pigmentation, latitude, migration, colonial settlement, UV exposure, and sunburn risk collide when ancestry and place diverge.
April 16, 2025
Essay
Monogamous Birds and Reproductive Ecology
Why apparently monogamous birds often mate outside pairs, and what animal behavior teaches about ecology, genetics, and expectation.
March 27, 2025
Essay
Chronic Wasting Disease: Prion Ecology
A Devilish Diseases essay on chronic wasting disease, prions, wildlife ecology, deer populations, surveillance, and spillover anxiety.
March 25, 2025
Essay
Tropical Diseases and Cognitive Development
How endemic tropical diseases can affect childhood cognition, development, school performance, and long-term public-health inequality.
March 21, 2025
Essay
Measles Immune Amnesia and Vaccination
How measles immune amnesia raises the stakes of vaccination, resurgence, outbreak control, and the hidden burden after infection.
January 27, 2025
Essay
Bivalve Transmissible Cancer: BTN
What is known about bivalve transmissible neoplasia, marine disease ecology, cancer transmission, and ecosystem risk.
January 19, 2025
Essay
Bacteriophages for Sustainability
How bacteriophages could be used in food safety, water treatment, agriculture, environmental health, and sustainability.
January 13, 2025
Essay
Bacteriophages and Antibiotic Resistance
A guide to bacteriophages as a possible tool against antibiotic resistance, including medical uses, promise, and limits.
December 24, 2024
Essay
Koala Retrovirus and Conservation Disease
How koala retrovirus, habitat loss, climate stress, and infectious disease combine into a conservation and evolutionary health problem.
December 8, 2024
Essay
Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor
The ancient canine transmissible venereal tumor, how a cancer crossed continents, and what transmissible cancers reveal about disease ecology.
November 28, 2024
Essay
Foodborne Illness and Thanksgiving Safety
A holiday food-safety guide to foodborne illness, kitchen risk, turkey handling, pathogens, and how not to ruin Thanksgiving.
November 26, 2024
Essay
Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease
A Devilish Diseases essay on Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease, transmissible cancer, wildlife ecology, and conservation risk.