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Osmosis: Zika Virus
What is Zika virus? This video covers the current understanding of the Zika virus, including information about the aedes aegypti mosquito, symptoms, complications, epidemiology, treatment, and precautions. [6:56]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Flu Symptoms: Flu Surveillance
Find out how many people get hospitalized and die from the flu each year, and learn how we can use the internet, and Google, to keep tabs on the flu. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.
New York Times
New York Times: Containing a Virus
Audio content with pictures that reveals a virus that has been gripping Angola. States that doctors are trying to treat this virus but are running into problems with people living in certain cities.
Timelines.tv
Timelines Tv: Smallpox Through Time 13: Smallpox Today: 1978 2010
Andrew Chater talks about the Smallpox disease today in this video and raises the question of what we should ultimately do with the virus that is being kept still in Russia and in the U.S. [3:40]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pbs News Hour: What Waiving Vaccine Patent Rights Might Mean for Big Pharma
President Joe Biden has given the initial nod for the U.S. to waive patent rights on COVID vaccines to boost international production. But there are real questions over how effective these moves would be, what other countries feel about...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: When Infections "Spillover"
Will the next human pandemic start in an animal? Writer David Quammen talks about Ebola, HIV and other diseases that Spillover from animals to humans.