The Latest Breaking News from infectious disease

COVID emerged suddenly, spread rapidly and killed millions of people around the world. Since then, I think it’s fair to say that most people have been nervous about the emergence of the next big infectious disease – be that a virus, bacterium, fungus or parasite.

Taking precautions to protect yourself from a quartet of infectious diseases can lessen your odds of starting off 2025 sick.

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in shocking numbers. Teaching 19th-century English literature, I regularly encounter gutting depictions of losing a child, and I am reminded that not knowing the emotional cost of widespread child mortality is a luxury.

As chronic and infectious diseases continue to rise, the demand for advanced healthcare solutions grows. Hence, investing in established healthcare stocks, Pfizer (PFE), Merck & Co (MRK), and AbbVie (ABBV), presents a compelling opportunity to capitalize on the sector’s landscape. Read on….

From gutting federal agencies to favoring profit over public health, here's why public health experts are concerned

Researchers have made great strides to prevent deaths from fatal diseases, but the cures for some of them still elude us.

Officials say Pakistan has detected one more polio case in the restive northwest bordering Afghanistan, raising the country’s tally of the infectious disease to 50 cases this year

A longtime leading killer retakes the lead.

How worried should the UK public be about the new case of mpox identified in the UK? Health Correspondent Rebecca Thomas explains why the risk to the general population is currently very low

TB likely returned to being the world’s top infectious disease killer after being replaced by COVID-19

There’s a common thread linking our experience of pandemics over the past 700 years. From the black death in the 14th century to COVID in the 21st, public health authorities have put emergency measures such as isolation and quarantine in place to stop infectious diseases spreading.