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This Brutal Mosquito-Borne Disease May Have a Cure—But There’s a Catch

This Brutal Mosquito-Borne Disease May Have a Cure—But There’s a Catch

This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There’s a reason dengue infections...

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Mother Jones

Pratik Pawar

The biggest mosquito-borne disease in the world has a cure. There’s just one problem

There’s a reason dengue infections are also called “breakbone fever.” Along with a mild fever, symptoms of the mosquito-borne illness include...

15.12.2025 7

Vox

Pratik Pawar

Want to help save the most lives possible? Here’s where to give money.

If you want to help human beings alive right now, there are few better places to give than global health. Diseases that have been largely eradicated...

01.12.2025 3

Vox

Pratik Pawar

India’s drug industry saved the world once. Can it do it again?

The phone rang just before midnight.  It was early February in 2001 in Mumbai, and Yusuf Hamied, a seasoned chemist at the Indian multinational...

19.11.2025 20

Vox

Pratik Pawar

Global health is facing major cuts. We still scored some surprising wins.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that hope is in short supply these days in global health. The steep cuts to lifesaving global health programs, the...

22.10.2025 2

Vox

Pratik Pawar

The only thing standing between humanity and the end of HIV

How often, on average, do you forget to take your daily meds? For me, it’s about twice a week. And that’s for something as low stakes as a vitamin...

14.10.2025 4

Vox

Pratik Pawar

Lead batteries are poisoning millions of children. Here are 3 proven ways to stop it.

Remember the Flint, Michigan, water crisis? The public health disaster that, at its peak, poisoned nearly 5 percent of the city’s children with...

27.09.2025 40

Vox

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For the first time, more kids are obese than underweight

Something striking just happened in global nutrition: As of 2025, children worldwide are now more likely to be obese than underweight. According to...

15.09.2025 5

Vox

Pratik Pawar

A flesh-eating parasite is at our borders. What happens if it spreads? 

A Maryland resident who traveled to El Salvador came home last month with an unwelcome souvenir: larvae of the New World screwworm burrowing in their...

07.09.2025 10

Vox

Pratik Pawar

Everyone agrees organ donation saves lives. So why don’t more people do it?

A Vox reader asks: Why are so few people organ donors? Why would someone choose not to be a donor? Everyone agrees it’s a good thing but very few...

05.09.2025 5

Vox

Pratik Pawar

The world just lost its health report card. Now what?

When President Donald Trump and Elon Musk fed the US Agency for International Development into the wood chipper earlier this year, one of the...

05.08.2025 3

Vox

Pratik Pawar