What is Monkeypox, the Virus Infecting People in the U.S. and Europe?

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May 20, 2022

Epidemiology What is Monkeypox, the Virus Infecting People in the U.S. and Europe? A microbiologist explains what is known about this smallpox cousin By Rodney E. Rohde,The Conversation US

Public Health The U.S. Needs Its Local Public Health Officials Back, Stat COVID misinformation has led to many top scientists leaving their public positions, putting health policy in the hands of people with limited expertise By Jared DeCoste

Space Exploration NASA Hails Starliner Launch Success Despite Thruster Glitch The Starliner team is confident the malfunctions won't prevent the spacecraft from completing its mission By SPACE.com,Josh Dinner

Quantum Physics Physicists Find a Shortcut to Seeing an Elusive Quantum Glow Once considered practically unseeable, a phenomenon called the Unruh effect might soon be revealed in laboratory experiments By Joanna Thompson

Climate Change Climate-Fueled Heat Waves Will Hamper Western Hydropower Earlier snowmelt can leave less water available to generate power during the height of summer By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Public Health HIV Care Has Improved Dramatically--But Not for Everyone The HIV/AIDS crisis has lessons for the COVID pandemic and other health inequities By David Malebranche

Renewable Energy Europe's Historic Clean Energy Plan Faces a Mining Problem Securing the needed minerals and metals could be a stumbling block to reaching its ambitious goals By Sara Schonhardt

Space Exploration Will NASA Save Europe's Beleaguered Mars Rover? Russia's invasion of Ukraine ended hopes of launching the ExoMars rover in 2022. Now the mission may never lift off at all By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Public Health What Does 'Protection' against COVID Really Mean? To answer that question, expanded testing is needed that can determine levels of T immune cells By Esther Landhuis

Medicine The Weight of Stigma: Heavier Patients Confront the Burden of Bias Research shows that antifat bias lowers the quality of care for higher-weight patients. Here is one patient's story By Kelso Harper

Medicine A Deluge of New Drugs for COVID Two years into the pandemic, the COVID-19 drugs pipeline is primed to pump out novel treatments—and fresh uses for familiar therapies. By Heidi Ledford,Nature magazine

Public Health Tuberculosis Is the Oldest Pandemic, and Poverty Makes It Continue Tuberculosis is preventable and curable, yet it afflicts one quarter of the world's population—mostly because of poverty By Sofia Moutinho

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Health & Medicine, Volume 4, Issue 3

FROM THE ARCHIVE Could Monkeypox Take Over Where Smallpox Left Off? Smallpox may be gone, but its viral cousins—monkeypox and cowpox—are staging a comeback

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