Browsing: Public Health

Antibiotic resistance has been called a slow-moving pandemic, and the metaphor holds in the worst way: the damage accumulates quietly, the victims.

After a raccoon attack, a 91-year-old patient discovered that lifesaving rabies vaccination was not covered and cost hundreds of dollars. Her case exposes the coverage gaps in post-exposure treatment and what patients need to know before they need it.

Disease surveillance is America’s watchtower: unglamorous, continuously staffed, and noticed mainly when it fails.