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Erika Check Hayden tells the story of a hospital in Sierra Leone, which has struggled to continue its research amid the worst Ebola outbreak in history. A superb piece.

“HIV messaging has swung from black to whitewash.” Some people now believe HIV can be controlled by popping pills. Patrick Strudwick meets 4 different people to show what life with HIV is really like, from stigma to side effects.

The factoid that out microbes outnumber our cells 10:1 is a wild estimate and probably wrong. An excellent corrective by Peter Andrey Smith.

“The idea that emotion impedes logic is