Anthrax is a bacterial infection that primarily affects animals, but can infect humans through contact with contaminated ...

UNICEF and Gavi have warned that the rising cases of vaccine-preventable diseases are threatening progress made over the years through immunisation.In a joint statement on Thursday, the organisations ...

Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment ...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) commends the Republic of Uganda for officially declaring the end of its eighth outbreak of Sudan Ebola Virus Disease (SVD).

University of Pittsburgh scientists working with UPMC infection preventionists have developed an infectious diseases ...

Purpose: Branched-chain amino acid (BCAAs) levels have been associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), but studies of CVD risk factors have mainly been cross-sectional. We ...

If an epidemic is like a forest fire, with transmission burning intensely before coming to a stop, then an endemic disease is more like a slow burn, with transmission constantly in the background ...

We've long known that environmental factors—from humidity and temperature to trace chemical vapors—can influence how pathogens, such as viruses, bacteria and fungi, behave once released into the air.

This rapid change triggers a chain reaction inside the droplet ... indicator – we have a unique opportunity to reduce disease transmission in our everyday environments. Because when it comes ...

Whether these plants contribute to chronic wasting disease transmission and what type of risk these plants pose to humans remain open questions.” Geschwind noted that the work done by federal ...