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Helen Branswell

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  • Senior Writer, Infectious Diseases and Global Health, STAT
Boston, United States
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I cover infectious diseases @statnews. 2020 Polk winner. Nieman '11. She/her. #H5N1 #birdflu #Covid #polio #flu, #RSV. Me on Signal: HBranswell.01
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Helen Branswell is STAT’s infectious diseases and public health reporter. She comes from The Canadian Press, where she was the medical reporter for the past 15 years. Helen cut her infectious diseases teeth during Toronto's SARS outbreak in 2003 and spent the summer of 2004 embedded at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2010-11 she was a Nieman Global Health Fellow at Harvard, where she focused on polio eradication. Warning: Helen asks lots of questions.

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HHS confirms Americans with high-risk Ebola exposures will have access to experimental therapy

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7 hours ago Artificial intelligence has been used to develop a "fundamentally new" type of vaccine that could protect against large swathes of viruses and prevent pandemics, say researchers. The team at the University of Cambridge say it is the first time a vaccine's key component has been designed entirely by …
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In Ebola outbreak, a number of Americans in the Congo believed to have had exposure to suspected cases

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Skip to content SPECIAL THREATS TO CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN IRAN CONFLICT | READ MORE → By Helen Branswell • May 18, 2026 A number of Americans who are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are believed to have had exposure to suspected cases in the country’s latest Ebola outbreak, with several deemed to have had high-risk exposures, sources have told STAT. At least one of these individuals may have developed symptoms.
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What happened to Covid?

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100-year-old assumption about the universe may soon be overturned Assumptions that physicists have made about the universe for over a century may be about to be overturned. Evidence is emerging that it is far …
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