Responsibility for public health protection from communicable diseases exists at three government levels in the U.S. (federal, state/tribe, and local/municipal), with states having the authority to ...

As immune function wanes, people become vulnerable. What should be a sniffle becomes deadly pneumonia. Infections that should remain dormant awaken to fatal effect. An obscure fungus kills. People ...

And there is little relief coming. Data from recent years – a period that has coincided with drastic policy cuts in research ...

As global temperatures rise, the spread of infectious diseases is rapidly evolving in unexpected ways. That’s something that Dr. Angelle Desiree LaBeaud thinks about a lot. A physician-scientist, ...

Effective quality control (QC) data management is essential for ensuring reliability of reported patient results and regulatory compliance in molecular infectious disease laboratories. This session ...

Northeastern University is one of the recipients of new funding from the CDC that establishes a national network of infectious disease forecasting centers. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

Source: Ethleen Lloyd, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library, public domain Bird flu in America. Marburg virus in Africa. Warnings about “Disease X.” These headlines ...

This fall, multiple states including Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee and Wisconsin have reported outbreaks of hand, foot and mouth disease, a contagious virus that commonly infects children under 5 but ...

Infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue, and tuberculosis are considered to pose as great a challenge to global health as ...

The recent departure of high-level Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials has brought vaccine policy back into national headlines. Combined with the resurgence this year of measles ...