Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

A CDC program tests wastewater from airplanes, looking for pathogens that may have hitched a ride with passengers on long-haul international flights.

Leading UCSF physician-scientists are developing targeted treatments, earlier diagnostics, and helping to solve tuberculosis’ ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have discovered how severe COVID-19 can destroy immune cells' ability to repair the lungs, helping explain the lingering effects of long COVID.

Researchers racing to develop bird flu vaccines for humans have turned to a cutting-edge technology that enabled the rapid development of lifesaving covid shots.

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have discovered how severe COVID-19 can destroy immune cells' ability to ...

The residents were possibly exposed during a visit to Cohen Children's Medical Center, where a child with measles was treated.

Nadworny and other northwestern Pennsylvania physicians soon would become more familiar with measles. A nationwide outbreak reached northwestern Pennsylvania by February 1990, first infecting students ...

In response, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has praised the benefits of the measles, mumps, and ...

Public health officials in Tarrant County are preparing for the possible arrival of measles as an outbreak of the disease grows in West Texas.

King Holmes, MD, PhD, an infectious diseases physician and researcher who helped create modern STI research and was a central ...

Debates over tuberculosis reporting began in the late 19th century, when the bacterial infection was reframed not as a disease of the elite but of the urban poor. New York City was the first in the ...