The mystery continues over how a Missouri man came down with the bird flu -- without having any animal contact.  Experts say ...

Chuks Okocha in this report writes on how the various state governments are managing the devastating effects of flooding in ...

Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) is an independently governed institute within the College of Health Sciences at Makerere University and has the mission “To strengthen health systems in Africa, ...

"Disease severity in children was still relatively mild," Neil Rellosa, MD, of Nemours Children's Health in New Castle, ...

The U.N. has adopted a lengthy "pact" of items for the world to address for a better tomorrow. We asked global thinkers if ...

An open letter by 99 healthcare workers who volunteered to provide care and treatment in Gaza calls for an immediate ...

The FDA recently approved the updated mRNA Pfizer and Moderna boosters, as well as the updated Novavax COVID vaccine, to ...

Federal officials plan to double the stockpile of emergency bird flu vaccines as they identify more people infected with the ...

People who inject drugs are dying at an alarming rate from endocarditis, a serious but treatable heart-valve infection. But their odds of survival improve dramatically, even five years after their ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched a new way for Americans to look up how high or low levels of ...

But “people can still be exposed to germs during the time it takes for chlorine to kill the germs,” explained Dr. Jessica Lum, an infectious disease specialist at Cleveland Clinic. Cryptosporidium, ...