The Longform Guide to Disease
Cancer, AIDS and weaponized smallpox—a collection of the best articles about disease.
The Demon in the Freezer
How smallpox went from eradicated disease to the ideal weapon of bioterrorists.
Richard Preston New Yorker Jul 1999 50min
The Ebola Wars
The author of The Hot Zone on how geneticists can help contain the current outbreak.
Richard Preston New Yorker Oct 2014 40min
The Golden Boy and the Invisible Army
The story of H1N1 and John Behnken, whose life it claimed.
Thomas Lake Atlanta Magazine Jun 2010 20min
AIDS Anxiety
New York during the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
Michael Daly New York Jun 1983 20min
A Matter of Life and Death
Living on borrowed time, with liver cancer.
Marjorie Williams Vanity Fair Oct 2005 45min
The Devil's Bait
Exploring the riddle of Morgellons disease: sufferers feel things crawling under their skin and hardly anyone believes them.
Leslie Jamison Harper's Sep 2013 25min
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