World leaders are now advancing the idea of a treaty to better prepare for the next pandemic. However, a treaty between states would not cure the myriad inefficiencies revealed by the response to ...

Nurses, patients, and professional groups are pushing for more rigorous infection control standards from the CDC following a preview of proposed changes to its isolation precaution guidelines and an ...

A new model to analyse infectious disease outbreak data has been developed by mathematicians that could be used to improve disease tracking and control. A new model to analyse infectious disease ...

Infectious diseases are a leading cause of illness and death worldwide, and are particularly dangerous to individuals with compromised immune systems. Immunocompromised people are less apt to control ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming healthcare, and its impact on infectious disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment is drawing growing attention. A new series in The Lancet ...

It’s the winter of 2003, and Long Thanh Ngo, head of a government biological testing lab in Dong Nai province, watches helplessly as a highly infectious avian influenza virus begins ripping through ...

A 39-year-old woman, the first participant enrolled in VRC 207, receives a dose of the investigational NIAID/GSK Ebola vaccine at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., on Sept. 2. Health-care ...

Reading through the Control of Infectious Diseases Bill up for public hearing at the House of Representatives, one is alarmed by how many of its proposals have failed the principles of proportionality ...

Amid the rise of novel pathogens, emergence of drug-resistant strains and changing disease patterns, health experts suggest tips to implement proactive measures In an era where global health is an ...

Mathematical analysis and modelling is an important part of infectious disease epidemiology. Application of mathematical models to disease surveillance data can be used to address both scientific ...

Measles outbreaks are spreading across the U.S., and the nation is likely to lose its status as a country where the disease ...