Evolution of diseases

Ebola Virus structure
Maurizio De Angelis, Wellcome Images 

The Conversation has recently published three articles on this topic:

Disease evolution: how new illnesses emerge when we change how we live is by Simon Reid from the University of Queensland.  He looks at Zika virus, Ebola, SARS and other emerging diseases and what we have learned about detecting them and responding to them. 

Disease evolution: the origins of anorexia and how it’s shaped by culture and time, by Dominic Murphy from the University of Sydney, examines the history of anorexia and proposes that its symptoms vary according to historical and cultural context. 

Disease evolution: our long history of fighting viruses - here, Nobel prizewinner Peter Doherty takes a look at the history of viruses as far back as ancient Egypt.