The Latest Breaking News from infectious disease

‘After more than 50 years of government service, I plan to pursue the next phase of my career while I still have so much energy and passion for my field’

Maureen Miller, an infectious disease epidemiologist and medical anthropologist at Columbia University, was not surprised to learn this week that an Italian greyhound in Paris had become the first dog known to catch monkeypox from a human.

According to infectious diseases experts, future surges and strains of COVID-19 are still a risk as the winter wave eases.

Infectious disease researchers have identified yet another virus, but don’t panic — here’s what you need to know about the Langya virus.

Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax, a study says. Researchers looked through the medical literature of established cases of illnesses and found that 218 out of the…

A new study shows how widespread the influence of climate is on human health

A new study finds climate hazards aggravate 58% of known infection diseases in people

After news broke that the U.S. declared monkeypox to be a public health emergency, friends and family started asking me, an infectious disease epidemiologist, if monkeypox is about to begin causing widespread death and chaos. I assured them that the Aug. 4, 2022, public health emergency declaration is about government…

Israel has recorded fewer than 200 cases of monkeypox but the country learned from COVID-19 that moving quickly can make or break a country's response to an infectious disease.