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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Unboxing the latest edition of the CCDM (opens the original)

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    I’m unboxing and reviewing the newly released 22nd edition of the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual—the indispensable field reference for infectious-disease epidemiologists and public-health practitioners. I take a look at what makes it so useful during investigations, from practical disease-control guidance and clinical details to updated coverage of climate-driven diseases, mpox, Candida auris, coronaviruses, and more.Public Health Night School is a reader-suppor

  2. Issue · Sep 28, 2026

    A Chickenpox Party That Went Wrong (opens the original)

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  3. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    Cancer Clusters, Explained: What Ladera Ranch Teaches Us About Epidemiology and Public Health (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Sep 16, 2026

    Measles and Vaccine Hesitancy in Pennsylvania’s Amish and Mennonite Communities (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Sep 10, 2026

    The Neighbors Who Became the Health System: A Short History of Community Health Workers (opens the original)

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    Parvin is 26 and lives in the Korail slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has two kids. She also has a job that does not fit neatly on a business card: she walks door to door through roughly 2,000 households, finds women who are pregnant, and connects them to care they might never have found on their own. She is not a doctor. She is not a nurse. She is a neighbor with training and a bag of supplies.That, in one sentence, is a community health worker.I have spent a good part of my career thinking about

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