Transmission: A Plague of Media Misinformation about Ebola
In the mid-1990s, my mother–a healthcare worker–brought home a library copy of Richard Preston’s “The Hot Zone”. “It’s about a very dangerous disease,” she told me. “It kills almost everyone … Continue reading
August 23, 2014 · Leave a comment
Tweeting About Bird Flu: Digital Epidemiology
Here’s one for all you WebMD hypochondriacs. Last month a team from the Harvard Medical School published an article on a new field they term “digital epidemiology”: using the internet … Continue reading
August 17, 2013 · 1 Comment
Orbiting Tomorrow 