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By the plain arithmetic of cell division, an elephant should be riddled with tumours and a mouse should hardly ever get one. The opposite of that arithmetic is what actually happens, nobody has properly explained it, and the most famous explanation is now being picked apart by the people best placed to know.
Health · 2026-08-23
In the autumn of 1347, four Genoese ships limped into a Sicilian harbour carrying a disease that would go on to kill somewhere between a third and half of Europe in four years. It is tempting to file the Black Death away as a closed chapter of the medieval world. It isn't one. The bacterium that caused it never went extinct, and it still infects and occasionally kills people today, from the American Southwest to Madagascar, in a matter of days if nobody catches it in time.
Health · 2026-08-11
The WHO African Region logs more disease emergencies than any other, somewhere around a hundred a year, and the reasons are almost entirely things nobody living there chose. Where the equator sits. Which animals carry which viruses. A band of dry wind that runs from Senegal to Ethiopia. Roads that got better. And a workforce carrying a quarter of the world's disease with three percent of the world's health workers. This is what the numbers actually say, and who has been doing the containing.
Health · 2026-07-26
The virus that stopped the world is still here, but it no longer empties cities or fills mortuaries. Roughly 2,020 days since the year 2020 ended, this is a clear look at what COVID-19 really was, why it killed on the scale it did, why it stopped, and what the lockdowns, the crash and the rest of that year did to the world.
Health · 2026-07-12