disease Cows painted like zebras keep flies from biting them Mark Frauenfelder

disease Now the prairie dogs are out to get us Seamus Bellamy

disease Ebola outbreak declared a public health emergency of international concern Seamus Bellamy

disease Sock sniffer suffers from fungal infection in lungs David Pescovitz

Science A CRISPR-based hack could eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitoes Cory Doctorow

disease 'No one should be sleeping well tonight': WHO encourages fear of Ebola Jason Weisberger

disease Aid workers use computer model to help stop cholera in Yemen dead in its tracks Seamus Bellamy

war Ebola in a war zone: what could go wrong? Seamus Bellamy

disease World Health Organization: Ebola's back, baby! Seamus Bellamy

health Vaccinations against Ebola begin in Congolese town of Bikoro Seamus Bellamy

medicine Two late-stage Ebola patients break quarantine, the number they may have infected is unknown Seamus Bellamy

drugs Ebola outbreak in Congo has spread to city of one million people Seamus Bellamy

disease Can you spot the ticks in this poppy seed muffin? David Pescovitz

death Supermarket chickens have a "superbug" problem Rob Beschizza

DRONES Drones to airdrop hundreds of thousands of mosquitos to fight disease David Pescovitz

books All about the Black Death flea that killed 100 million people Amy Stewart

Science Remember ebola? Media-inflamed health scares, quantified Andrea James

disease Star-shaped polymer kills superbug strains without antibiotics Mark Frauenfelder

health Siberian heat wave unleashes deadly 'zombie anthrax' outbreak Xeni Jardin

picks Zika hits the US military: 33 service members now have virus, says Pentagon Xeni Jardin