A major problem with current testing for infectious diseases in Africa is that it focuses on individual diseases and cannot reliably discriminate between them. Since most infectious diseases have the same feverish...
The number of U.S. measles cases has continued climbing toward 200, with 173 cases noted in the CDC’s most recent report March 6 — but that’s only half the story. If you add in the cases multiplying north of the border...
Being stuck in bed, waiting for the flu to run its course, is pretty unpleasant. And it’s also really boring. What else is there to do but search for symptoms online, and read entries about the flu on Wikipedia or WebMD...
There’s a disease spreading right now, a disease that until recently, we’d considered eliminated — something that wasn’t spreading anymore except in places where it was imported from outside the country. But as the...
The appearance of infectious diseases in new places and new hosts, such as West Nile virus and Ebola, is a predictable result of climate change, says a noted zoologist affiliated with the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of...
A mathematical study of how infectious diseases spread has demonstrated a surprising link between the progress of an outbreak and the way that outbreak is portrayed in the media. The study suggests that when public...
When Ebola hit West Africa last year, it was a disease with no sign of a vaccine or cure. To those affected that may have been an indication that the wider world didn’t care about them or the diseases that...
The Ebola epidemic that took off last year in three west African countries—Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone —is finally fading. The last three weeks have each seen around 120 new cases, the lowest level since July 2014...
Infectious diseases are incubating everywhere across the world—ranging from the deadly Ebola virus to the more common yet debilitating influenza—to often devastating effect. It raises the question of how large a premium...
Scientists may have found a way to create injectable, 3D vaccines that could help fight cancer. They’ve shown a non-surgical injection of programmable biomaterial that spontaneously assembles in vivo into a 3D...