U.S. government have declared a health emergency over the monkeypox outbreak. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has activated its Emergency Operations Center, and some observers fear containment may no longer be possible. People like me who study infectious diseases are asked every day: What should we be doing about it? To be clear, there […]

If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Similarly, if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ultimately votes to approve Eli Lilly’s donanemab or Eisai’s lecanemab – both anti-amyloid beta (Aβ) antibodies – will it make an impact on Alzheimer’s disease (AD)? “The stupid […]

To date, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), has infected over 575 million and claimed more than 6.4 million lives worldwide. Since the end of 2019, the SARS-CoV-2 genome has evolved due to genomic mutations, which has resulted in the emergence of several SARS-CoV-2 […]