A few years ago, the Zika virus and related risk of microcephaly noticeably increased public awareness of the detrimental effects of maternal infection on the offspring. However, Zika is only one of a large number of stressors that, by causing immune activation in pregnant women, generates a significant global health hazard. Notably, maternal immune activation […]
The world of autism is a diverse one—autism and autism spectrum disorder are general terms for a group of complex and extremely heterogenous life-long neurodevelopmental conditions. Autism is also one of medicine’s greatest challenges. The current general consensus is that autism has multiple causes, and these causes can be as varied as the types of […]
The 2014 Ebola epidemic began as a mysterious disease in a small village in Guinea at the end of 2013, but was not identified as Ebola until March 2014. From the original location near a tropical rainforest, it spread to major rural and urban areas across West Africa. Formerly known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola […]