<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-131167682,imgsize-72408,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/why-are-millions-of-homes-in-japan-empty-inside-the-shocking-rise-of-abandoned-ghost-houses-across-the-nation.jpg" alt="为什么日本数以百万计的房屋空无一人：全国各地废弃“鬼屋”令人震惊的崛起" title="Computer: Akiya Japan" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high"/> Across Japan, something unusual is happening in plain sight. Entire blocks of houses are still standing, but no one lives inside them. The windows have been closed...
Chicago, cruise ships are convenient floating hotels through which to see far-flung parts of the world—but as an epidemiologist, I know they are also everything an infectious pathogen could want: thousands of strangers crammed into enclosed...
