Epidemics

David Ho's mid-1990s viral dynamics research showed HIV replicates and mutates too fast for any single drug to outlast it, an insight that became the case for combination therapy and turned a fatal diagnosis into a manageable one.

Jenner didn’t invent vaccination — he invented the human challenge trial.

She didn’t just nurse the wounded—she weaponised graphs and soap.

Two labs on opposite sides of the Atlantic isolated the same virus under different names within a year of each other, and it took another year of testing, and decades of dispute, to agree who found it first.

Semmelweis didn’t discover germs — he discovered that doctors were killing mothers, and proved it with monthly death counts.

Heart disease isn’t destiny — it’s measurable, modifiable, and preventable.