Although climate change is often in the headlines, the potential for consequential shifts in infectious diseases that could result receives scant attention. As plants, animals and microbes continuously adjust to...
Mobile phone data could help predict how seasonal infectious diseases are spread and help policymakers make decisions about interventions, researchers from Princeton University, Harvard University and other institutions...
At the start of the year, Dr John Bartlett made nine predictions for the field of infectious diseases in 2015, ranging from Ebola to epidemics. Although we are only at the halfway point, many new developments have...
A new portable disease-detecting “paper machine” has been developed by a team of researchers at Harvard University. What makes the device special is its low cost and efficiency since the machine can detect cancer...
South Korea will build up a new disease control system to better fight new kinds of contagious diseases like the MERS virus, President Park Geun-hye said Wednesday as the country is scrambling to contain the spread of...