Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease in the world, is making a comeback in the United States. Experts point out that school outbreaks, delayed diagnoses, and shortcomings in public health ...

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 ...

Responsibility for public health protection from communicable diseases exists at three government levels in the U.S. (federal, state/tribe, and local/municipal), with states having the authority to ...

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 ...

Infectious diseases are common worldwide. Your immune system is able to fight most germs that you grew up with. If you've been deployed abroad, you may have encountered some germs you're not used to.

Associate Prof Vu Quoc Dat argues that building infectious disease treatment facilities right in Hanoi's inner city is the ...

Media attention given to the recent Ebola outbreak has overshadowed the fact that any number of communicable diseases can cause significant harm and death. Acute respiratory infections, such as ...

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 ...