infectious disease

"The good study that we found on this suggested that a COVID-like event will take place every 129 years to 344 years," says Brown.

Bavarian Nordic's Jynneos mpox vaccine for adolescents aged 12 to 17 was approved on Oct. 8.

New research adds to evidence that a common herpes virus increases the risk of the neurogenerative condition. 

Beijing has reported the simultaneous spread of 16 viruses, with COVID-19 infections ranking second among infectious diseases.

Although mono is not a serious disease per se, in rare cases, it can lead to some dangerous ...

Dr. Steven Hatfill, a seasoned expert in infectious diseases, was involved in the early days of the Trump ...

Dr. Steven Templeton is the author of “Fear of a Microbial Planet: How a Germophobic Safety Culture Makes ...

In a major setback to fighting tuberculosis (TB), the first clinical trial of a shortened treatment has been ...

Over the past few years, we have experienced isolation, mask-wearing, and significant behavioral changes in response to a ...

Commentary So many people made bank (both power and money) during the last pandemic that they're already preparing ...

Sprinkled like confetti throughout this image are dozens of green, yellow, and red-ringed axons—nerve cell fibers that transmit ...

One of the world's leading killer infectious diseases—tuberculosis (TB)—is surging in the United States with cases rising more ...

Chinese officials are tracking a couple of outbreaks of infectious illnesses that mostly affect children. A norovirus outbreak ...

Researchers have a leading suspect in mind for what may have caused the paralysis of more than 100 ...

Polls opened Saturday morning in Liberia for a twice-delayed Senate vote amid concern the process could facilitate the ...

Dr. Martin Salia, who was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday, landed at Eppley Airfield in Omaha on Saturday ...

OMAHA, Neb.—When Dr. Martin Salia arrives in Omaha from Sierra Leone, he'll be the 10th person with Ebola ...

Ebola has a lot of company, researchers say. Since 1980, the world has seen an increasing number of ...

Kaci Hickox, a nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, can move about as she pleases after ...

SINGAPORE—The longer the Ebola outbreak rages in West Africa, the greater chance a traveler infected with the virus ...

Despite it being nearly six months after the Ebola outbreak was confirmed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), ...

Experts say Ebola might be quietly inoculating a significant portion of the population—people who are exposed to the ...

A ban on travel from West Africa might seem like a simple and smart response to the frightening ...

NEW YORK—Is Ebola the world's worst infectious disease threat since AIDS? Comparisons between the two deadly diseases surfaced ...

A team of scientists has made new calculations about how the Ebola epidemic will develop, its scale, and ...

A second hospital in the United States has admitted a patient with Ebola symptoms, said the Howard University ...