Imagine a disease outbreak so severe that if you’re not vaccinated, you flag your home with a red cloth outside your door — so vaccinators can find you. That is what is happening in Samoa, a Pacific Ocean island...
Backed by a five-year, $6.7 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health announced that it plans to lead a culture shift in data-sharing rippling...
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...
Vaccine-preventable diseases have not just returned but surged in crisis-hit Venezuela, according to new research presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases...
Researchers at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have developed a new tool to understand how human infectious diseases found overseas might spread in Australia. Using data from dengue virus outbreaks in...
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...
Federal officials have posted proposed rule changes for how they try to prevent the spread of communicable diseases. One group sees some dangers in the proposals. To federal officials, it’s a way to provide greater...
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...