The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is facing leadership uncertainty after acting director ...

Handwashing is our first line of defence against germs. It removes bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens that can cause ...

Dr. Amesh Adalja, the Senior Scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security & Infectious Disease, joined us on The ...

The acting director of the U.S. NIH's infectious disease institute has stepped down, two Democratic senators said on Thursday ...

On Friday, Africa CDC confirmed a new Ebola outbreak, centered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; within two days, the ...

The WHO declared the outbreak a global health emergency while warning that the true scale of the crisis may be far larger ...

Infectious diseases are spreading more today because the world has changed faster than our ability to control outbreaks.

Twelve years ago, during the catastrophic Ebola outbreak in West Africa, I wrote in these pages that infectious diseases ...

Public-health researcher James Baguma has studied the interactions between bats, which can carry the virus, and people in the ...

There won't be any high school wrestling in Minnesota for the next eight days due to a skin-infection outbreak. The Minnesota State High School League shut down all prep wrestling from Tuesday through ...