The Coming Plague at TED
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Chris Suellentrop, better known as The New York Times' Opinionator, steps out from behind the Times firewall this week to liveblog the TED conference in Monterey. Can a conference cynic find something to love at the big nerd love-in? It's already scared the crap out of him. In Epicenter.
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More than 1,000 people will gather in Monterey, Calif. for the annual TED conference, named for the convergence of technology, entertainment and design.
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Tommy G. Thompson expressed concern about the threat of a global flu epidemic and the possibility of a terrorist attack on the nation's food supply.
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Plague, the disease that devastated medieval Europe, is re-emerging worldwide and poses a growing but overlooked threat, researchers warned on Tuesday.
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Follow Wired News' on-the-scene dispatches from TED with blogger Chris Suellentrop. The latest: It's still gloom and doom at the confab -- venture capitalist John Doerr breaks down on stage. In Epicenter.
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Officials are concerned about the possible spread of serious ailments such as cholera, typhoid and malaria and also issued warnings about the bird flu virus.
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Heightened fears that potentially devastating livestock disease is spreading.
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Survivors from the gargantuan tsunami that swept across Asia will face a host of new threats in the coming days and weeks: viruses and bacteria in the water
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An outbreak of avian influenza (&#39;bird flu&#39;) among villagers in Thailand is raising fresh fears that spread of the virus, which kills 75 per cent of people it infects, could, at least in principle, reach pandemic proportions.
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More than twice as many people have fallen ill this year with a strain of bacteria responsible for food poisoning, experts say.
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Old drugs, outdated tests, empty promises, new threats. Such is the bleak reality surrounding an international tuberculosis conference opening Thursday in a city scarred by a killer combination of TB and AIDS: an already nightmarish scenario worsened by the spread of virtually untreatable strains.
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HUNDREDS of patients of Addenbrooke&#39;s Hospital have been warned they may have come into contact with the human form of &quot;mad cow disease&quot;.
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An IBM study expects viruses to crawl into cars and cell phones. Also:  Research finds more people banking online and the trend growing.... The Medicare budget swells past expectations.... and more.
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The level of concern about a possible avian flu pandemic appears to be waning in the U.S., leaving many IT organizations unprepared for the disruptions that a pandemic could cause.
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Officials warned that the world was close to its next pandemic, a powerful and contagious mix of avian influenza and flu virus that would likely be centered in Asia.
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The case of a jet-setting tuberculosis patient might soon shift from the hospital wards to the courts. The patient, Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta personal injury attorney, could sue the federal government for being quarantined on the basis of federal regulations that some scholars see as unconstitutional.
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An antibiotic-resistant germ is increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise healthy children and adults.