pathogens

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The facility looks more like a hotel than a hospital, said Dr. Gaby Frank, director for the Center for Special Pathogens at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

The virus that’s found in the Americas tends to cause a cardiopulmonary syndrome, a condition that affects both the heart and the lungs, said Dr. Gaby Frank, director of Johns Hopkins Special Pathogens Center.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

A paper published this week in the journal Pathogens describes how the team used DNA to confirm the identity of both the snails and the flatworm.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2024

Pathogens often come from overwhelmed water-management systems that trigger sewage outflows—although bacteria such as the “flesh-eating,” wound-infecting Vibrio species can also ride in from the wild on seawater.

From Scientific American • Aug. 30, 2023

Joe McCormick was the chief of the Special Pathogens Branch of the C.D.C., the branch that had been run by Karl Johnson, another codiscoverer of Ebola virus.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston