Some infectious disease examples are the flu (spread through the air by sneezing and coughing), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, spread through unprotected sexual contact and blood exposure), ...

The World Health Organization warned in its 2007 report that infectious diseases are emerging at a rate that has not been seen before. Since the 1970s, about 40 infectious diseases have been ...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) should be re-conceptualized as an infectious disease, according to a professor. A new article suggests that major depression may result from parasitic, bacterial ...

Although there will likely be other major infectious disease challenges in the future (for example, antimicrobial drug resistance), addressing the shortcomings of the US response to COVID-19 is of ...

Weiner feels that DNA vaccines provide a valuable immunotherapy especially for rapidly emerging infectious diseases. He gave the example of Zika virus. “During the 2015 outbreak, ...

An example of the impact of an infectious disease came in 2001 in the UK when an outbreak of hoof and mouth disease cost some $10 billion and more than 2 million sheep and cattle had to be ...

Infectious disease specialists these days are deluged by coronavirus questions from friends and family members, ... Here are a few recent examples in bold, along with my responses.