Stalking a Killer Fungus (Melvin Sanicas, Project-Syndicate)

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/superbug-fungus-candida-auris-by-melvin-sanicas-2016-12

Why Rabies Still Kills (Melvin Sanicas, Project-Syndicate)

A virus that infects your brain, makes you want to bite things, and is almost always fatal after symptoms appear probably sounds like something from a zombie movie. But this has been the modus operandi of rabies at least since 2300 BC, when it was described in the Eshuma Code of Babylon. The word’s Sanskrit etymology – rabhas, meaning “to do violence” – dates back even further, to 3000 BC.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rabies-prevention-developing-world-by-melvin-sanicas-2016-10

With Another Pandemic Looming, Let’s Change Perspective (Melvin Sanicas, Next Billion)

http://nextbillion.net/with-another-pandemic-looming-lets-change-perspective/

The Return of Yellow Fever (Melvin Sanicas, Project-Syndicate)

Before the horrors of the latest Ebola outbreak in West Africa could even begin to fade from our minds, the Zika virus emerged as a major global health risk, and is now occupying researchers and doctors in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Yet the death toll from another virus is rising fast: yellow fever

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/control-yellow-fever-threat-by-melvin-sanicas-2016-05

Winning the War Against TB (Melvin Sanicas, Project-Syndicate)

Humans have been battling tuberculosis since the Stone Age. But only in the last century has real progress been made against the disease. A vaccine, first used in humans in 1921, is still in use around the world today. And a series of antibiotics, beginning with streptomycin in the 1940s, has proven effective in treating infections.

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Melvin Sanicas is Program Officer and Global Health Fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation