In the time before widespread vaccination, devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of children and leaving others with lifelong health problems.

Limiting the study of infectious diseases would worsen the chronic disease epidemic. Research into the interconnections between the two is integral, not optional, to solving the crisis.

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Infectious diseases endanger our health and economies, which is why countries across the Americas work together to track them, slow their spread and act swiftly when outbreaks occur.

Clinical Infectious Diseases has launched a new series that will provide an in-depth look at real-life complex cases and the associated diagnostic and management decisions that ID clinicians deal ...

Epidemiologists estimate the contagiousness of an infectious disease with a “basic reproductive number,” or R 0 — how many people a sick person infects, in a community with no protection.