Most medical trainees have never seen measles or its complications, muscle rigidity from tetanus, or an infant struggling to ...

Dr. Kamran Khan is a practicing infectious disease physician and the CEO & founder of BlueDot — an infectious disease intelligence company. After a summer of climate turmoil, from Canadian wildfires ...

Candida auris is adapting to warmer ecosystems, including the human body. The first US case was reported in 2016. In 2023, 4,514 new C. auris cases were reported in the United States, according to the ...

Dolphins, whales and seals are highly social animals. Many live in groups, form long-term relationships, and repeatedly ...

A virus is a sneaky little bugger whose goal is to get inside your body. When it does enter your body it finds a normal cell to infect. Once it’s inside the cell, the virus will create newly copied ...

NEW YORK — People around the world are living longer, healthier lives than they were just half a century ago. Climate change threatens to undo that progress. Across the planet, animals — and the ...

An infectious disease physician and former CDC official said he does not "have faith" that the U.S. is "handling measles very ...

Researchers have made great strides to prevent deaths from fatal diseases, but the cures for some of them still elude us. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Infectious diseases are defined as those that are caused by pathogenic microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses. A person can be infected with a pathogenic microorganism ...