A CDC program tests wastewater from airplanes, looking for pathogens that may have hitched a ride with passengers on long-haul international flights.

“Infected people are contagious from 4 days before the rash starts through 4 days afterward. The incubation period for ...

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa said in April 2020 that up to 3.3 million Africans could lose their lives ...

At the time, Wolfgang Petersen’s 'Outbreak' was too farfetched to seem true. Now, it just seems eerily prescient.

Five years after the WHO declared COVID to be a pandemic, questions remain including how many people have died.

Press Release - Kagera, a critical border region in Tanzania, serves as a gateway connecting multiple countries, including ...

So to your point about H5N1, with the mortality being so high, it's possible that the traditional presentation was the sickest that presented, and that we are starting to see a different population.

Suspected case-patients, one of them a woman who became ill while pregnant, have links to the western part of Uganda.

U.S.-funded organizations helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and ...

While public health authorities in Texas and elsewhere are doing their best to contain the latest outbreaks, RFK Jr. is going ...

It's inevitable there will be another pandemic so the real challenge is to back public health, researchers and to trust the evidence. Earlier this week marked five years since the World Health ...