Did some more freelance work for Discovery, the newsletter of the Institute for Human Virology. I always enjoy talking to their scientists about their research, and this time I wrote about science that involved some broader issues outside of science and medicine as well.
The two articles in the Fall newsletter are about the testing of a Lassa fever vaccine in immunocompromised animals, and some of difficulties the researchers have had in getting it commercialized, and about a study of HIV conspiracy beliefs, which can affect the treatment of people with HIV. Some of their statistics were pretty incredible, like the fact that 40% of people in their study thought that the government created AIDS. Follow the links to the full articles.