A generation has passed since the world saw the peak in AIDS-related deaths. Those deaths—agonizing, from diseases or infections the body might otherwise fight off—sent loved ones into the ...

That changed with the AIDS epidemic, the first major infectious disease threat in more than a generation. AIDS arrived as American politics took a sharp conservative turn with the election of ...

Debates over tuberculosis reporting began in the late 19th century, when the bacterial infection was reframed not as a disease of the elite but of the urban poor. New York City was the first in the ...