Nipah virus, a bat-borne paramyxovirus found throughout South and South East Asia, has been identified by WHO as an emerging infectious disease that may cause severe epidemics in the near future. Infections in humans...
Smallpox is a debilitating and occasionally fatal disease that’s highly contagious. Prior to 1980, the disease killed 3 out of every 10 people who became infected, according to the National Institute of Allergy...
Fresh insights into infectious brain conditions help to explain why some people – and animals – are more at risk than others. The study reveals how prion diseases – which include variant Creutzfeldt...
A professor at The University of New Mexico has developed a new, groundbreaking drug that could revolutionize the diagnosis of infectious diseases. Dr. Jeffrey P. Norenberg, a professor and director of the...
Saint Louis University Center for Vaccine Development researchers have identified a potential new target for vaccines that activates a part of the immune system not previously known to be protective against Chagas...
Scientists are witnessing the theoretical turning into reality: infectious microbes emerging from a deep freeze This past summer anthrax killed a 12-year-old boy in a remote part of Siberia. At least 20 other people...
Vaccine-preventable diseases among adults cost the U.S. economy $8.95 billion in 2015, and unvaccinated individuals are responsible for 80 percent, or $7.1 billion, of the tab, according to the most comprehensive...
Public health researchers have long used social networks to understand the spread of infectious diseases, but those social networks often have gaps. A team of researchers recently showed that spatial analysis can help...
Virus spread can be blocked by attacking Ebola’s Achilles’ heel Scientists have found Ebola’s Achilles’ heel: a new kind of chemical compound can block the protein Ebola uses to break out of...
National Institutes of Health researchers have discovered a rare and sometimes lethal inflammatory disease – otulipenia – that primarily affects young children. They have also identified anti-inflammatory...