Inside Science, November 8, 2018

In a paper published in the journal PLOS Pathogens, a researcher makes a case for looking at all infectious diseases as seasonal, although seasonal in this case doesn’t just relate to the traditional temperate seasons, like summer or fall. That task is not always straightforward. The transmission dynamics for disease are very complex and include many interconnected factors, said UTMB’s Dennis Bente, commenting on the paper.