After issuing the MAHA report, the administration published budget proposals to cut funding for the NIH by $17.0 billion, or 38%, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by $550 million, or 12% ...

As summer ushers in peak mosquito season, health and vector control officials are bracing for the possibility of another year ...

Canada must address the growing crisis of communicable diseases that has occurred in tandem with a rise in misinformation ...

Instead of reallocating diagnostic resources from TB towards COVID-19, the WHO recommends multidisease testing strategies, as is already being implemented in India. 63 The overlapping epidemiology and ...

Lymphatic filariasis has undergone a remarkable transformation in India, evolving from a neglected tropical disease to a national priority. This shift is largely attributable to the consistent policy ...

This Commission focuses on the vector-borne helminthiases onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, loiasis, and mansonellosis, which are widely endemic across large and diverse landscapes in sub-Saharan ...

When modern epidemiology first took shape, there was only one kind of epidemiology – epidemiology, period. Over time has come specialisation into chronic and infectious disease epidemiology. Does this ...

Figure 2. Distribution of control lead-time. (A) Control lead-time of daily incidence cases. (B) Proportion of control lead-time by different case-finding approaches. Not under quarantine: others = ...

Ticks are obligate haematophagous ectoparasites of wild and domestic animals as well as humans, considered to be second worldwide to mosquitoes as vectors of human diseases. Tick-borne diseases are ...

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women, yet differences exist among certain racial and ethnic groups. Aside from traditional risk factors, behavioral and environmental factors ...

A new AI tool to predict the spread of infectious disease outperforms existing state-of-the-art forecasting methods. The tool, created with federal support by researchers at Johns Hopkins and Duke ...

When cholera ravaged Hamburg in 1892, politics — not science — drove the response. Over a century later, as we confront modern “epidemics” of obesity, chronic diseases, measles, and COVID, the ...