The Latest Breaking News from infectious disease

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.

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.

A global network of doctors and laboratories is working to pinpoint emerging viral threats, including many driven by climate change, in a bid to head off the world's next pandemic.

Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda are some of the east African countries that have reported cases of mpox – a viral infectious disease – in the latest outbreak which started in the Democratic Republic of Congo in January 2023. The outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern…

Massachusetts lawmakers have approved a bill designed to strengthen the state’s oversight of nursing homes, provide anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ nursing home residents, and help protect against the spread of infectious disease outbreaks

Sloth fever or Oropouche virus is spreading in the United States, with 30 cases in all, and at least three cases of hospitalization in the country. West Nile fever is also on the rise in United States, and recently top US infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci became infected with…

In recent years, mosquito-borne illnesses have been on rise in the US and some of these diseases can have severe complications ranging from coma, seizures to brain damage. Recently, a rare case of eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) was found in Massachusetts. The infection poses a serious death risk and is…

The infectious disease doctor was hospitalized after “developing fever, chills, and severe fatigue.”