Dr Vivek H. Murthy joins Ethics Talk to discuss loneliness as a public health threat and the connection between loneliness, public health responsiveness, and the health of our democracy.

Dr Amy E. Wendling joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “On Health and Loneliness.” 

Dr Pamela B. Teaster joins Ethics Teaching and Learning to discuss public health ethics teaching during the waning COVID-19 pandemic.

Zoonoses are infectious diseases that pass from an animal to a human and now constitute the majority of new and emerging infections.

Marburg virus is carried by the Egyptian rousette bat, a common cave-dwelling fruit bat endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, where populations can exceed 50 000.

Consumption and trade of wild animals present major zoonotic disease transmission risks.

Since the 1990s, multiple infectious diseases have “spilled over” from nonhuman animals to infect humans and cause significant global morbidity and mortality.

A judicious approach to autism would be to replace a “disability” or “illness” paradigm with a “diversity” perspective that takes into account both strengths and weaknesses and the idea that variation can be positive in and of itself.

In treating children with autism, physicians should reframe the common dynamic in which the family wants medication that the doctor is withholding to focus instead on the family’s and physician’s share goal—the patient’s well-being.

Bats are diverse mammals, globally distributed and ecologically critical, yet some carry disease agents that have severe consequences for human health.