Video from a national park in Uganda depicted a parade of predatory species feeding on and dispersing fruit bats that are known natural reservoirs of infectious diseases.

F or the past 60 years, a committee of independent experts has advised the federal government on vaccine policy, providing ...

Intestinal Bacteria Influence Aging of Blood Vessels May 28, 2025 — The aging of the innermost cell layer of blood vessels leads to cardiovascular diseases ... Zika virus's infectious success ...

Pneumonia in the Shadow of COVID-19: Along Came COVID Infectious disease experts describe ways in which COVID pneumonia differs from community-acquired pneumonia and how COVID vaccines may offer ...

For years, public health experts have encouraged primary care physicians (PCPs) to screen for infectious diseases as well as cancers, heart disease risk factors, diabetes, and more. Many ...

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 ...

Vaccines are effective tools for managing infectious diseases—that they may also protect against cognitive decline is an emerging benefit worth keeping in mind.

Infectious disease clinicians raised alarm that proposed cuts to Medicaid could affect ID-related services, not only among patients using the program but also patients with private health insurance.

The top threats to the widespread health and safety of New Yorkers over the next 100 years are coastal squalls, infectious disease outbreaks and computer outages, according to a new five-year ...

A mother who lives in the epicenter of the Texas measles outbreak has revealed how her son's infection left her fearing he could suffer permanent brain damage. Alex, from Lubbock, near Gaines ...

Infectious diseases also known as contagious diseases, transmissible diseases or communicable diseases are caused by pathogenic microorganisms that infect a host organism and can be spread ...