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.

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 ...

The drought that has the entire country in its grip is affecting more than the color of people’s lawns. It may also be responsible for the proliferation of a heat-loving amoeba commonly found in warm ...

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 ...

We must focus on anticipating zoonotic infection emergence, increasing protection and prevention capabilities and committing to sustained engagement, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

In addition to the 35 notifiable infectious diseases, 95 infectious diseases not required to be reported to public health authorities were also uncovered by the population-based observational study.

In our clinical fellowship program, you will learn the breadth of common and rare infectious diseases in a variety of inpatient and ambulatory settings from nationally recognized leaders in infectious ...

Discover various types of lung disease, their symptoms, causes, and treatment options. Learn how to manage respiratory ...

Learn more about the diseases Neanderthals endured and how their weakened immune system and encounters with humans made them ...

Infectious colitis is an inflammatory condition caused by bacteria, a virus, or a parasite. It can cause diarrhea and other symptoms. Treatment will depend on the cause. Infectious colitis causes ...