At a time when new infectious diseases are emerging more frequently, social media platforms have become an important source of information. Along with the increased availability of formal data such as geographical and...
The World Health Organisation has announced it had convened emergency talks on the enigmatic, deadly Mers virus, which is striking hardest in Saudi Arabia. The move comes amid concern about the potential impact of...
Using a unique data set spanning 40 years of dengue fever incidence in Thailand, an international team led by biostatistician Nicholas Reich at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has for the first time estimated...
In a study from Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), researchers have generated a map of the cellular circuitry of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of...
The Middle East coronavirus that has killed 40 people since emerging late last year has not yet reached pandemic potential and may simply die out, according to new estimates of how easily it is transmitted. In a study...
Two separate topics concerning vaccination to prevent infectious diseases are in the news. An epidemic of rubella, also known as German measles, has broken out in Japan, with the number of cases exceeding 10,000 and...
In the light of Novel Corona Virus, concerns over H7N9 Influenza in S.E. Asia, and more familiar infections such as measles and seasonal influenza, it is as important as ever to be able to predict and understand how...
With 39 deaths globally from a virus outbreak hitting hardest in Saudi Arabia, the government has begun relaying health advisories that children, the elderly, pregnant women and the terminally ill should stay home from...
Patients in Vietnam and other locations with central nervous system infections may well be suffering from the effects of a newly discovered virus, according to a study to be published in mBio®, the online open-access...
Scientists are reporting progress in the search for the first broad-spectrum drugs to combat human rhinoviruses (HRVs), which cause humanity’s most common infectious diseases. Their study on these potential drugs...