Lyme disease is a complex condition with a long history of misdiagnosis, and Lyme arthritis, a late manifestation of the ...

Doctors and infectious disease experts stress that flu vaccines are safe, and they are especially important for older adults ...

Although outbreaks of Ebola virus are rare, the disease is severe and often fatal, with few treatment options. Rather than ...

Expert on infectious disease prevention and occupational safety practices in dentistry died on May 12, 2025, aged 87 years.

Rising debts and the need to repay them mean low-income and middle-income countries are unable to adequately fund health ...

Zoonoses—diseases that spread from animals to humans—began to gain prevalence some 6,500 years ago with the rise of animal ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

On my left arm is a large scar – about the size of a silver dollar (for those who remember when dollars were also coins). It’s what remains of my smallpox vaccination.

As I head into my 25th year of working as a clinical infectious diseases pharmacist, one of the most important working relationships of my career is with the infection prevention department.

It raises our concern about what’s happening to the animals in their ecosystem,” West added. Researchers identified the striped dolphins as especially vulnerable to the infectious disease.

The fifth Symposium on Infectious Disease in the Immunocompromised Host convened in Seattle last month. Experts and rising stars in the field met to share practice-changing research, discuss tricky ...

The investigational antifungal agent olorofim showed efficacy in 29% of patients with invasive fungal disease who had few or no treatment options. A successful global response with stable disease ...