tuberculosis
Brian May's Funeral March for Badgers Was Very Weird
Three years since the cull started, the UK government is still intent on blasting badgers to death, and the Queen guitarist is still trying to stop them.
Mexico Halts Vaccinations Nationwide After Two Infants Die in Chiapas
Authorities are investigating what caused more than 30 children to enter a long stupor after receiving three different vaccinations. Two died and six children in the Chiapas case remain in grave condition.
VICE News Capsule - Thursday, April 9
Yemeni refugees seek safety in Somalia, tuberculosis is running rampant in eastern Ukraine, more than 15 corpses were stolen from their graves in Peru, and Australia is developing a new shark repellent.
Giant Rats Are Helping Doctors in Mozambique Sniff Out Tuberculosis
A Belgian aid organization is training cat-sized African pouched rats to use their keen sense of smell to detect the presence of tuberculosis in human mucus samples.
Drones Are Being Tested in the Fight Against a Tuberculosis Epidemic in Papua New Guinea
The centuries-old disease is crippling communities in one of the world's most untamed wildernesses. Now unmanned aerial vehicles could bring treatment to the country's far-flung reaches.
Amid Talk of Ebola, Australia Is Apparently Silencing Discussion of Tuberculosis Threat
Papua New Guinea’s tuberculosis epidemic could be spilling across the border into Australia, but local health authorities seem to want to avoid talking about it.
Seals and Sea Lions Brought Tuberculosis to the Americas Before Europeans
That doesn't mean Europeans are off the hook.
How Canada’s Poor Record-Keeping Broke Up 4,000 Families
It took years for an Innuit girl to be returned to her family, because no records were kept of where she came from or who her family was.
How the Canadian Government's Poor Record-Keeping Broke Up 4,000 Inuit Families
In the 50s, the Canadian government shipped thousands of Inuit people infected with tuberculosis from their homes in the Arctic to sanitariums in southern Canada without explaining their whereabouts to their families. We interviewed members of the...
Drug-Resistant TB Is Spreading Among the World's Poor
Patients in South Africa are being sent home to die after treatment options are exhausted.
The US and the UK Have Largely Ignored Antibiotic Resistance
A UK study examining the funding for antibiotic resistance research finds there's little coming down the antibiotic pipeline there, either.
I Spent a Night Trying to Stop English Farmers Blasting Badgers to Death
Roaming the countryside with animal rights activists.