Tuberculosis kills more than 4,200 people worldwide every day, and South Africa has one of the highest TB incidence rates in the world. Like COVID-19, tuberculosis (TB) is a highly…
Depression rates and symptoms tripled during the first year of the pandemic A new study by the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH), published in the journal The Lancet…
Warming temperatures are allowing disease causing insects to survive further north than ever before. Vector control is currently the only viable solution to combating mosquito and tick-borne illnesses as vaccines…
This is the second installment of Dr. Sherr’s two-part series. Be sure to check out his first post on why prevention outweighs treatment. “Honey…I’ve just come from my doctor, and…
Similar to many African countries, South Africa—the country where I work as a BU associate professor in global health—reported its first COVID-19 case on March 5, 2020, imported by a…
The world, as we know it, may just have been saved. Had SARS-CoV2, aka COVID-19, emerged 50 years ago, it would have continued to rampage through the world’s populations for…